http://www.saasblogs.com/2007/07/04/can-the-fortune-500-achieve-efficiency-through-intra-enterprise-saas/ Understanding the Software as a Service Revolution Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:29:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.saasblogs.com/2007/07/04/can-the-fortune-500-achieve-efficiency-through-intra-enterprise-saas/#comment-8245 SaaS, Appliances and Industrialisation « IT Blagger 3.0 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:37:56 +0000 http://www.saasblogs.com/2007/07/04/can-the-fortune-500-achieve-efficiency-through-intra-enterprise-saas/#comment-8245 [...] SaaS, Appliances and Industrialisation 10 07 2007 Picked up a couple of posts over the last few days with respect to on-premise SaaS offerings.  First up was Gianpaolo Carraro over at Microsoft talking about intra-preneurial SaaS.  This is a topic that I’ve discussed a number of times and whilst I’m in complete agreement that taking the benefits of SaaS into the enterprise is a good thing I also feel that it’s in enabling business capabilities to be delivered as services that the real value lies; i.e. conceiving of the organisation as a set of collaborating service providers rather than just encouraging the IT to department make applications available in a new way.  Such a model enables greater focus on the capabilities that actually add value to the organisation and prepare the ground for future unbundling by raising management purview to business capabilities in place of applications and technology.  In this context I was also delighted to see Gianpaolo describe the supporting infrastucture as a ’service delivery platform’, since to me the need to deliver such future business capabilities as viable services with proper management, reporting and monetisation is a critical requirement and one often overlooked by SOA implementors.  Taking this argument a bit further - especially given that the question originated from Sinclair Schuller over at SaaS blogs (who is connected with Apprenda) - the question for me is whether the service delivery platforms to enable intra-preneurial SaaS are better built in house or leveraged from external platform provders?  For me the answer is that enterprises should absolutely use external utility computing platforms to support the service enablement of their business capabilities and stop wasting time, money and brain power grubbing about in the weeds of technology.  A big issue with this currently, however, is one of trust; many large companies have not yet achieved a level of comfort with externally provided, multi-tenancy service platforms that would enable them to make this giant leap forward. [...] […] SaaS, Appliances and Industrialisation 10 07 2007 Picked up a couple of posts over the last few days with respect to on-premise SaaS offerings.  First up was Gianpaolo Carraro over at Microsoft talking about intra-preneurial SaaS.  This is a topic that I’ve discussed a number of times and whilst I’m in complete agreement that taking the benefits of SaaS into the enterprise is a good thing I also feel that it’s in enabling business capabilities to be delivered as services that the real value lies; i.e. conceiving of the organisation as a set of collaborating service providers rather than just encouraging the IT to department make applications available in a new way.  Such a model enables greater focus on the capabilities that actually add value to the organisation and prepare the ground for future unbundling by raising management purview to business capabilities in place of applications and technology.  In this context I was also delighted to see Gianpaolo describe the supporting infrastucture as a ’service delivery platform’, since to me the need to deliver such future business capabilities as viable services with proper management, reporting and monetisation is a critical requirement and one often overlooked by SOA implementors.  Taking this argument a bit further - especially given that the question originated from Sinclair Schuller over at SaaS blogs (who is connected with Apprenda) - the question for me is whether the service delivery platforms to enable intra-preneurial SaaS are better built in house or leveraged from external platform provders?  For me the answer is that enterprises should absolutely use external utility computing platforms to support the service enablement of their business capabilities and stop wasting time, money and brain power grubbing about in the weeds of technology.  A big issue with this currently, however, is one of trust; many large companies have not yet achieved a level of comfort with externally provided, multi-tenancy service platforms that would enable them to make this giant leap forward. […]

]]> http://www.saasblogs.com/2007/07/04/can-the-fortune-500-achieve-efficiency-through-intra-enterprise-saas/#comment-8109 Gianpaolo's blog « Intra-enterprise SaaS Sat, 07 Jul 2007 17:55:55 +0000 http://www.saasblogs.com/2007/07/04/can-the-fortune-500-achieve-efficiency-through-intra-enterprise-saas/#comment-8109 [...]Today, on his blog, Sinclair asks: Can the Fortune 500 Achieve Efficiency through Intra-enterprise SaaS?[...] […]Today, on his blog, Sinclair asks: Can the Fortune 500 Achieve Efficiency through Intra-enterprise SaaS?[…]

]]> http://www.saasblogs.com/2007/07/04/can-the-fortune-500-achieve-efficiency-through-intra-enterprise-saas/#comment-8043 SaaS / Software-as-a-Service « NowSourcing Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:27:16 +0000 http://www.saasblogs.com/2007/07/04/can-the-fortune-500-achieve-efficiency-through-intra-enterprise-saas/#comment-8043 [...] However, in reference to the news shown above, the question is begged, “Can the Fortune 500 Achieve Efficiency through Intra-enterprise SaaS?” So asks SaaSBlogs. The opinion is yes, citing it is also well understood that the provider generates certain efficiencies via the centralization of the technical burden associated with the application. [...] […] However, in reference to the news shown above, the question is begged, “Can the Fortune 500 Achieve Efficiency through Intra-enterprise SaaS?” So asks SaaSBlogs. The opinion is yes, citing it is also well understood that the provider generates certain efficiencies via the centralization of the technical burden associated with the application. […]

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