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Don’t Forget the End User When Discussing PaaS!


I finally had a chance to sit down and read a McKinsey report titled “The Emerging Platform Wars” that was a good and lengthy treatise on SaaS and the emergence of PaaS offerings to solve all that ails software companies.
The report did a good job atĀ breaking down PaaS archetypes, value propositions, etc. but one thing […]

The Evolving Role of Hosts in PaaS & SaaS Enablement


ConversationsĀ in the SaaS enablement space tend to focus on companies offering cloud application platforms (such as our very own SaaSGrid), enablement technologies such as billing services offered by folks like Aria Systems, or players like Amazon that are pushing “closer to the metal” cloud utilities like file storage via S3 or virtualization constructs via EC2. […]