Apprenda’s SaaS Platform: Throwing Our Hat Into The Ring


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? Well, you may have noticed that SaaSBlogs is run by the founders of Apprenda. Today Apprenda is happy to throw our hats into the SaaS ring by announcing that we are in fact developing a SaaS platform. Visit Apprenda’s website.

“Apprenda’s platform will give independent software vendors a business and technological foundation to build, deploy, and monetize their service-oriented applications for on-demand use without technological lock-in.”

For more information on our progress continue to read SaaSBlogs, or sign-up for our newsletter at Apprenda.com.

  

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Daniel Feygin
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December 15, 2006 at 3:39 pm

Most important thing in a SaaS platform (if it is itself SaaS) is go-to-market support for ISVs. Salesforce.com has that and will now have AppStore by the end of 2007. WebEx and Microsoft are also getting into the game, IBM is going to be more active too.

It is not going to be easy, but I wish you luck.

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Matt Ammerman
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December 15, 2006 at 4:05 pm

Daniel,

Thanks for the comment.

You make a very good point about the go-to-market support for ISVs. The greatest technological achievement in a platform isn’t worth very much if ISVs can’t use it to realize (then maximize) value through go-to-market enablement.

However, it should also be said that a platform must first enable ISVs to GET-to-market. That is, it needs to solve the technological hurdles involved w/ SaaS deployment.

Ultimately, it needs to take as much of the added burden off the vendor as possible - in both technological implementation and market strategy aspects - until, dare I say, the vendor doesn’t even realize that SaaS takes extra work.

We’ve taken a ground-up approach to the comprehensive platform concept. I think you’ll like what we’re up to, so stay tuned. And again, thanks for the comment.

- Matt