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Dear Readers,
We’ve established a LinkedIn group called SaaSBlogs. LinkedIn is a networking site for professionals and the purpose of this group is to extend the SaaSBlogs community and provide a place for further discussion and knowledge sharing amongst SaaS entusiasts.  We welcome you to join by following this link, and based on the comments seen here on SaaSBlogs, […]

This post simply serves to provide a link to a post on another site, but I felt it very appropriate to shine the spotlight on a brilliant post by Ben Yoskovitz on Instigatorblog.com entitled ‘Lessons Learned Running A SaaS Business‘. While we tend to focus on the relative “newness” of SaaS, it’s always important […]

For those who don’t know who Malcolm McLean is, I’ll give a brief introduction. Malcolm McLean invented the modern shipping container: you know, the ones that come in on cargo ships, are craned onto trucks and trains, and that provide a standard for transporting goods worldwide. So why are his ideas important and what does […]

One of the much-touted benefits of single instance, multi-tenant SaaS is the ability for ISVs to respond to market demand and introduce new functionality and versions of their application to their entire customer base relatively easily. In other models, this was a nightmare and would actually dis-incentivize creativity and “staying ahead of the game.” This […]

Eugenio Pace from Microsoft’s SaaS Architecture Team published a great webcast describing the potential relationship between ISVs and hosters and how a SaaS platform fits in. It’s worth the watch. One of the major takeaways from the video is that a good platform marginalizes an ISVs efforts involving things like multi-tenancy, onboarding of new customers, monetization, […]

I bumped into a brief but impactful article by Renee Boucher Ferguson titled “ISVs Snub Salesforce’s Force.com Platform“. The post basically summarized a situation that occurred after OpSource’s SaaS Summit. Following a panel discussion on SaaS platforms, ZDNet’s SaaS blogger Phil Wainewright conducted a brief poll of about 250 software vendors asking the following questions (paraphrased):

How many people […]