SaaS Blogs

The advent of SaaS has ushered in quite an exciting (and still unfolding) age in the IT industry. By its very nature, SaaS brings ever more diverse sets of software functionality to a much larger audience. With this, however, has come a slew of new terms, old terms with new meanings, and new concepts. The […]

If all SaaS was meant to be browser-based, it would have been called ‘Web Apps As A Service’ (WaaaS). So let’s not forget that when we’re talking about SaaS, we’re talking about the evolution of software, not just web apps. Given that, it’s a bit incorrect to say that SaaS is the natural evolution of […]

Matt just posted about a content/style update to the Apprenda website of major significance. Previously, we alluded to Apprenda being a “SaaS enablement” company, and while thats true, we’re also much more.
Apprenda is concentrating on creating a revolutionary on-demand platform. Right now, that’s all we’re saying. We plan on keeping the community/industry posted, but you […]

You may know us here at SaaSBlogs.com for our patented analyses (read: diatribes) on the major SaaS players and the SaaS industry in general over the past several months. Indeed, some posts have sparked great discussions and even a few heated debates.

Well, the truth is, we’re critical because we care. And why do we care? […]

Swivel is a service that allows users to upload datasets from virtually any source. These datasets are then spun through Swivel’s analysis engine, and the end products are nifty cross-sectional graphical representations of induced correlation between the datasets. For example - Per Capita Income vs. Property Crime. We’ve blogged in greater detail about Swivel in The SaaS Swivel, Double Line, and Rig Setup.

I’ve been keeping tabs on an interesting company named Swivel for a little while now. I bumped into their blog recently, and have read a couple of articles, including one by ZDNet blogger Mitch Ratcliffe. The basic idea behind Swivel is to be a central place for intelligently parsed and analyzed data for use in […]

SeeControl provides inventory tracking and supply chain management tools On Demand. Recently, they appointed Al Cohen as President and CEO. SeeControl is an example of On Demand’s appeal to widespread horizontal markets. We’re excited about to see where they take hosted inventory and supply chain management in the future.

Wow, talk about a (relatively) hot topic! Recently, a web of blog posts full of coined terms, rebuttals, and re-definitions was spun by some of the blogs I frequent. I recently read articles by Dan Farber, Phil Wainewright, David Terrar, Thomas Otter, Nick Carr, Dennis Howlett, and Vinnie Mirchandani (whew, monster list!) that discussed the […]