SaaS Blogs

When formulating the architectural foundation for a SaaS application, ISVs will inevitably encounter the age old build vs. buy decision.  SaaS enablement is hot right now, giving vendors a plethora of options on the buy side. 
Nick Carr has an interesting argument in support of the buy scenario - specifically urging vendors to buy into a horizontally aligned […]

Hello from sunny Santa Clara.  We’re at SaaSCon 2007 at the Santa Clara Convention Center today and tomorrow.  From the looks of the exhibit floor and the sound of the early keynotes this morning  there is plenty of opinion and information floating around. An interesting keynote was the ”Evaluating SaaS Infrastructure” keynote which described the challenges of […]

We’ve written quite a bit here about Salesforce’s Apex… and, admittedly, we’ve taken a somewhat critical stance on it.  Questions of identity crisis and ambiguity have boiled down to “Is it a SaaS platform, or a CRM platform? Is there a difference, and does it really matter what they call it as long as it is […]

Despite the many articles about SaaS that we have written, and will continue to write, it’s no secret that the real value SaaSBlogs presents to the community is as a hub for SaaS knowledge sharing and discussion.  All of you subscribers, lurkers and regular commentors alike, have plenty to say that we want to hear.  We’ve had some terrific comments that […]

Via Business Two Zero, here is a press release recently issued by Gartner titled Gartner Says Service Providers Must Prepare Now for the Software as a Service Wave. The release opens with numbers: The worldwide SaaS market reached $6.3 billion in 2006, with a forecast of growth to $19.3 billion by year-end 2011.
I want to […]

Here’s another spotlight article from Phil Wainewright on ZDNet - DST spells disaster for shrinkwrap software.
The article zeroes in on the impending daylight savings time change (it’s this weekend in case you didn’t know - a date earlier than any prior year), and the havoc that it has wreaked on on-premise, aka ’shrinkwrap’, software end users who must now navigate through […]

This is just a mini-post to aggregate the plethora of commentary surrounding the announcement of Google Apps Premier Edition.  Phrases like “in direct competition with Microsoft Office” abound, but overall it’s apparent that there are still a tremendous amount of questions surrounding the maturity level of the application suite.
Here’s a bit of what’s being said:

Don Dodge - Microsoft Emerging […]

It’s been a few months now since Salesforce.com introduced Apex to the world, and we’ve all had ample time to digest the concept, analyze it, debate about it, and just generally figure out our own positions on the proposition.  One thing’s for sure, the announcement of Apex brought the total level of industry ’saas platform’ buzz somewhere into the realm […]

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 […]

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 […]