SaaS Blogs

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 […]

Yesterday, Will Price of Hummer Winblad wrote a terrific quantitative analysis comparing the upfront funding needs of SaaS vendors, or application providers, with the funding needs of traditional software firms. In case there was any doubt, his data shows that funding a SaaS endeavor requires substantially more money – on the order of 3.65 times […]

Apprenda, developer of an upcoming general purpose SaaS platform for ISVs, is a sponsor of the SaasCon Conference which will take place April 17th and 18th in Santa Clara, CA.

Apprenda will also be on the exhibition floor at booth 416.

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There’s no doubt that a good deal of writings about SaaS in 2006 focused on the platform concept. Here at SaaSBlogs.com, we too have a propensity for the on demand platform, as indicated by four of the five most popular posts from 2006 according to you, the readers:

Salesforce.com’s Apex: Benioff’s Handcuffs for On Demand

Scale […]

If all SaaS was meant to be browser-based, it would have been called ‘Web Apps As A Service’ (WaaaS). So let’s not forget that when we’re talking about SaaS, we’re talking about the evolution of software, not just web apps. Given that, it’s a bit incorrect to say that SaaS is the natural evolution of […]

You may know us here at SaaSBlogs.com for our patented analyses (read: diatribes) on the major SaaS players and the SaaS industry in general over the past several months. Indeed, some posts have sparked great discussions and even a few heated debates.

Well, the truth is, we’re critical because we care. And why do we care? […]