SaaS Blogs

It was written only a month ago, but Robert Mitchell’s article ‘Virtual machines: the new ghetto in the data center’ is a classic in my book. Mitchell’s article draws up the similarities between data center engineering and urban planning. Like city planners, service providers must be careful that the efficiencies they introduce to their load-bearing […]

Phil Wainewright just posted a breakdown on SaaS platform/ecosystem flavors titled “What flavor is your ecosystem?” His breakdown is at a slightly different angle and a finer grain than my article categorizing platforms. The categorization seems to classify ecosystems and platforms based on implementation mechanism, which is an excellent categorization in its own right. At […]

Alarmist titles are great, aren’t they? In all seriousness, I don’t intend to take an alarmist position in this post. However, I do want to highlight something that we discuss at Apprenda as the “buckle risk” that SaaS providers must deal with.
Rapid growth, when used as a blanket term, tends to be associated with success […]

SaaSBlog.com’s over-the-weekend redesign is complete.  A few left over pieces were worked today and I think we’re operational on all fronts.  Let us know if something’s not working right.
The purpose of this redesign is to easily facilitate the spread of SaaS-related discussion in the blogosphere stemming from this site.  You’ll notice we’ve added tons of […]

I bumped into an article at Computer World titled Survey: SAAS satisfaction dropping as customer interest expands. The article highlights a report by the Cutter Consortium and Jeffrey Kaplan of THINKstrategies. In summary, the report discusses an interesting trend in a drop in customer satisfaction among SaaS users despite the fact that interest in the […]

Yesterday, Will Price of Hummer Winblad wrote a terrific quantitative analysis comparing the upfront funding needs of SaaS vendors, or application providers, with the funding needs of traditional software firms. In case there was any doubt, his data shows that funding a SaaS endeavor requires substantially more money – on the order of 3.65 times […]

I recently read a comment by Marc Benioff that baffled me. Dan Farber recently interviewed him and summarized the interview in his latest post Salesforce.com’s platform ambitions. In the interview, Farber asks Benioff whether a company like SuccessFactors should write natively to the Apex platform instead of just integrating with Salesforce.com through the sForce API. […]

At first glance, the concept of a SaaS ecosystem seems to provide value only for the end user, giving SaaS customers a map benevolently drawn by the divine cartographers of their SaaS/ecosystem providers to navigate the ever growing jungle of offerings and value propositions. But as the age old saying “Never judge a book by […]

Apprenda, developer of an upcoming general purpose SaaS platform for ISVs, is a sponsor of the SaasCon Conference which will take place April 17th and 18th in Santa Clara, CA.

Apprenda will also be on the exhibition floor at booth 416.

Regardless of whether one believes that Darwinian evolution is how the species of this planet came to be, most will agree that the premise and underlying structure of evolution is both powerful and to some degree measurable in the real world. One of the most important things to ask IS “Why study history and why […]