Comments on: Where’s the “App” in AppExchange? http://www.saasblogs.com/business/wheres-the-app-in-appexchange/ Understanding the "as a Service" Revolution Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:34:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Sinclair Schuller http://www.saasblogs.com/business/wheres-the-app-in-appexchange/#comment-19326 Sinclair Schuller Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:50:54 +0000 http://www.saasblogs.com/2006/10/11/wheres-the-app-in-appexchange/#comment-19326 Hi Ted, We (Apprenda) will be releasing a technical preview of <a href="http://www.apprenda.com/saasgrid/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">SaaSGrid</a> soon. SaaSGrid levels the playing field when it comes to implementing SaaS offerings, act as an "operating system" for the web applications it hosts. In terms of removing all pain for all participants, I think the primary takeaway is that having a platform in place allows for Apprenda to respond to market needs or the addition "new pains" or "new participants" in a fashion that benefits all those using it. -Sinclair Hi Ted,

We (Apprenda) will be releasing a technical preview of SaaSGrid soon. SaaSGrid levels the playing field when it comes to implementing SaaS offerings, act as an “operating system” for the web applications it hosts.

In terms of removing all pain for all participants, I think the primary takeaway is that having a platform in place allows for Apprenda to respond to market needs or the addition “new pains” or “new participants” in a fashion that benefits all those using it.

-Sinclair

]]> By: Ted http://www.saasblogs.com/business/wheres-the-app-in-appexchange/#comment-19316 Ted Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:09:54 +0000 http://www.saasblogs.com/2006/10/11/wheres-the-app-in-appexchange/#comment-19316 Abe. While you did not say much in terms of word count, you did say a whole lot in terms of content. You are also a much better speller than I. Do you know of such a company that fufills all of the needs and removes all of the pain for all participants in Software as a Service? Ted Abe.

While you did not say much in terms of word count, you did say a whole lot in terms of content.

You are also a much better speller than I.

Do you know of such a company that fufills all of the needs and removes all of the pain for all participants in Software as a Service?

Ted

]]> By: Abe Sultan http://www.saasblogs.com/business/wheres-the-app-in-appexchange/#comment-19093 Abe Sultan Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:55:48 +0000 http://www.saasblogs.com/2006/10/11/wheres-the-app-in-appexchange/#comment-19093 Ted, The days for such a platform vendor to exist are much closer than you think! Keep tuned for more exiting news and progress about SaaS. Ted,

The days for such a platform vendor to exist are much closer than you think!

Keep tuned for more exiting news and progress about SaaS.

]]> By: Ted http://www.saasblogs.com/business/wheres-the-app-in-appexchange/#comment-19072 Ted Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:48:58 +0000 http://www.saasblogs.com/2006/10/11/wheres-the-app-in-appexchange/#comment-19072 Re. Sinclair’s comment;

“ Is their another player that can deliver something better” ?

Of course there will be. “Software Windows to the World” will exist! ISVs,VARs,and End Users, be they Individual, SMBs and right up to the largest of Enterprises, will not have to go anywhere else to instantly sell/rent or use software apps. – When a complete, true and simultaneous worldly accommodating SaaS enabling middleware is fully developed and offered, Google, Yahoo, AOL, Baidu etc. will jump all over this technology, as they have no “bone to pick” with tens of thousands of ISVs, as SaleForce may have.

A company offering this complete and true SaaS enabling technology will have to:

- be able to SaaS enable and post apps in days, not years, without access to the vendors code.

- Will enable the vendors to upgrade their apps without taking millions of simultaneous users off line.

- Will ensure multi-tenant users single tenant security.

- Will enable Google. Yahoo etc. to offer software programmers to click on and SaaS enable their own apps.

Scoof if you will, there is at least one company whohas thia Wholly Grail of SaaS enablement. And for you scffers – isn’t it silly that – when we look back to before the times of the www and the Internet and remember that we could only install apps on our own PC and only use these already outdate apps there, that many of us have difficulty accepting the fact that the www means sharing and that soon we will be able to do so with essentially any software program ever written.

Ted

]]> By: SaaS Blogs - » Is Salesforce.com’s Apex a Platform? http://www.saasblogs.com/business/wheres-the-app-in-appexchange/#comment-1000 SaaS Blogs - » Is Salesforce.com’s Apex a Platform? Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:02:47 +0000 http://www.saasblogs.com/2006/10/11/wheres-the-app-in-appexchange/#comment-1000 [...] Sure it seems like a kind-hearted message with success written all over it, and it is undeniably unified in its presentation.  But now couple that mantra with the technological implementation that is Apex and here is where the meat of my questions arise.  According to their own Apex landing page, Salesforce.com wants you to create the next Salesforce.com using the ”same tools that salesforce.com’s own development team uses to build” [salesforce.com].  Besides being a lot of Salesforce.com’s in one sentence, this seems like a cleverly veiled way of saying “we’ll let you build the next Salesforce.com, but no better.  And we’ll keep you from doing this by giving you only the tools that we give our own application developers (or gave them months ago)… who you may ultimately be competing with.”  Remember, a good deal of Salesforce.com’s AppExchange apps are indeed of their own making.  See, this way Salesforce.com’s own developers define a ceiling… a gaurded gate through which the ISVs they are ‘enabling’ cannot surpass them.  You see, you can’t really create the next Salesforce.com, you may be able to create what Salesforce.com is today.  Tomorrow Salesforce.com will have progressed, and then you can try to be that.  Sound fun?  Sound endless?  By bringing in developers through Apex, Salesforce.com is swallowing competition in an enterprise application market that it is certainly not abandoning.  Is Apex simply a vehicle for making sure that Salesforce.com stays ahead of the game?  After all, if you outgrow or otherwise find little need for the tools provided to you by Apex, you pretty much have to dismantle your application and start over on a different technology stack - putting you far far behind.  Sounds kind of Borg-ish to me.  Come to think of it… didn’t we talk about the risks of this thing called lock-in before?  In the case of Apex we might be talking about lock-in through assimilation!  Heck, you even have to learn the Apex language.  I rest my case. [...]

]]> By: Anne 2.0 » Blog Archive » Salesforce.com’s Apex As Sustaining Innovation http://www.saasblogs.com/business/wheres-the-app-in-appexchange/#comment-24 Anne 2.0 » Blog Archive » Salesforce.com’s Apex As Sustaining Innovation Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:36:07 +0000 http://www.saasblogs.com/2006/10/11/wheres-the-app-in-appexchange/#comment-24 [...] Salesforce.com, a company that has found success in providing hosted customer relationship management solutions, will likely be able to increase their value to existing customers by offering more and better ways to expand upon hosted CRM. This may include creating a thriving marketplace and ecosystem for developers who build solutions that integrate with Salesforce’s own CRM offering. Sinclair Schuller’s recent analysis of what’s available on AppExchange supports this–it’s an architecture for Salesforce plugins and extensions, not a platform for generic, hosted application development. [...] [...] Salesforce.com, a company that has found success in providing hosted customer relationship management solutions, will likely be able to increase their value to existing customers by offering more and better ways to expand upon hosted CRM. This may include creating a thriving marketplace and ecosystem for developers who build solutions that integrate with Salesforce’s own CRM offering. Sinclair Schuller’s recent analysis of what’s available on AppExchange supports this–it’s an architecture for Salesforce plugins and extensions, not a platform for generic, hosted application development. [...]

]]> By: Vendorprisey http://www.saasblogs.com/business/wheres-the-app-in-appexchange/#comment-18 Vendorprisey Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:50:52 +0000 http://www.saasblogs.com/2006/10/11/wheres-the-app-in-appexchange/#comment-18 [...]  SF.com seems to charge  money for products to appear there,  but it seems that the partners  aren’t really making money themselves.   SaaSblogs provides a detailed breakdown. If we look at this “ecosystem” of 350+ applications, what is the breakdown? What might a stricter taxonomy look like? I recently compiled a list of these 350+ applications (I came up with 343, but I may have missed 8+) to do a little investigation. I found some wonderful tidbits of information. Did you know that at the time I retrieved the data (week of October 2, 2006)… [...]

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