SaaS Blogs

Although my focus in life right now is CEO of Apprenda, I come from a software development and architecture background (I needed to put my Math/Comp Sci. degree to good use at some point in my life). Anyone who has written software in any “old” (in this case, the double quotes are for sarcasm) platform […]

Last night I gave a talk on SaaS to about 100 members of the NY Entrepreneurs Business Network and the NY BizSpark Meetup group at Microsoft’s office in New York (thanks to NYEBN and MSFT ISV Evangelist Gunther Lenz for inviting me). We had a very good discussion around the progression of the software industry from Client-Server to Web Applications and the ASP’s of the late 90’s on to the current SaaS paradigm. The changes to the leaderboard of the software industry at each step in the evolution were obvious to the crowd…

Mike Vizard over at IT Business Edge wrote a blog post a couple of days ago where he described SaaSGrid as potentially having “…the most impact…” on the Cloud market (using the word ‘market’ here very loosely) when compared to other cloud technologies like Force.com and Azure. I’m both flattered and clearly in agreement, but […]

Just a quick note: I just published an article in Datamation titled “How to Be a Cloud Computing Vendor”. The article focuses on clarifying the jargon that exists on using Cloud Computing Providers as substitutes to SaaS Platforms. 
Check it out and let me know what you think!
Cheers
Abe
PS: If you’d like to mingle with others in the SaaS space, […]

If you’re an ISV considering SaaS as a delivery model (whether it’s for a new product or migrating an existing one), you’re going to inevitably bump into SaaS platforms as a potential means of building your service. Once you do, you’re presented with two options: (1) build a fully integrated SaaS offering yourself which includes your actual […]

Coghead’s departure from the PaaS world sparked plenty of interesting debate. One small debate that caught my attention started on Phil Wainewright’s post about Coghead’s demise with a comment by Microsoft’s Eugenio Pace, which then spilled into a post Eugenio wrote here.
To give a brief synopsis, Phil argues that Coghead’s demise and the subsequent stranding of […]

For some time, I thought I was alone in battling the cloud taxonomy war. With SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, RIA, etc. being tossed around on a regular basis, I often find myself looking for clarification when it becomes obvious that someone’s definition and understanding of one of these acronyms is different than mine and those that […]

I’m sure we can all agree that the number of acronyms and phrases related to online software keeps growing rather than shrinking. In order to make sense of it, we really need to focus on understanding where different concepts fit in from a big picture perspective. For example, I am often asked if Apprenda’s SaaSGrid […]

Conversations 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. […]

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 […]