SaaS Blogs

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 […]

At the OpSource Summit last week, Treb Ryan gave a great presentation that started with a simple (oft taken for granted) question: what is ‘the cloud’? Although this part of the talk was interesting, one particular part of the talk caught my attention. A third or so of the way through, Treb focused on the […]

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 […]

Coghead announced it was shutting it doors yesterday evening. For those unfamiliar with Coghead, it was a much talked about PaaS offering that offered an online application editor for rapid application development. They fell under the category of non-standard stack, a “4th generation language and runtime” (4GL) if you will. It seems that slow adoption coupled with the […]

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 […]

A quick note for everyone: Paul Miller of Cloud of Data was kind enough to hold an interview with me regarding Apprenda, SaaSGrid and the Cloud. Check it out!
 

As of late, I’ve had a number of conversations with different individuals regarding release cycles and what SaaS companies currently do and/or should do with respect to releasing upgrades to their offerings. The biggest question is how to map the release to your customer’s needs. In many cases, it’s ok to release an upgrade to […]

One topic that is rarely addressed on blogs or in conversation is release management: the processes and science behind rolling out a new version of your SaaS offering. So imagine you’ve created the world’s next Salesforce.com: how do you plan on handling new releases? This question is stickier than it seems. There are a variety […]

I recently came across an initiative named Coming of Age with SaaS that is co-sponsored by Microsoft and Mural Consulting. It’s a free webinar on December 16th that seems to cover a lot of practical ground related to a variety of SaaS topics ranging from product development to customer service, so I figured the SaaSblogs community might be […]

I wanted to drop a quick note to everyone that today we’ve announced SaaSGrid’s public release. I wanted to thank everyone that is part of the SaaSBlogs community. I’ve had lots of interesting conversations (both online and offline) with readers. Many of those conversations directly have affected how we approached SaaSGrid as a technology and […]