SaaS Blogs

When my partners and I co-founded Apprenda, we had a number of very specific goals when it came to SaaS enablement and we wanted SaaSGrid to embody those goals. My co-founders and I all came from technical backgrounds where we were responsible for SaaS engineering efforts. We learned early on that when a SaaS application […]

When thinking of the cloud, there are two sides to the coin: those who build SaaS offerings and those who consume them. For those who build SaaS applications, we’ve seen a glut of tools crop up to help engineer, architect and deploy SaaS offerings. Some are “horizontally” aligned (think EC2 on the IaaS side, SaaSGrid […]

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 […]

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 […]

We generally try to compare current decisions and ideas to decisions and ideas that we’ve made/had in the past and that parallel those that we are currently evaluating. This tends to be a good way to “analyze” the decision or idea and pick it apart. Organizations are familiar with outsourcing certain types of Information and Communication Technology […]

SaaS is generally approached from the standpoint that a SaaS provider will write an application and sell it as a service to other businesses. This provides the many well known business driver benefits to those who use SaaS. Additionally, it is also well understood that the provider generates certain efficiencies via the centralization of the […]

A few months back I wrote this post which discussed trying to get SaaS offerings into the hands of SMBs.  The question was a.) Would traditional channels (e.g. VARs, stores, etc.) play a role and b.) what new channels would develop to push SaaS out to the SMB. Well, a combination of some conversations with […]

Although SaaS is in and of itself of a unique and powerful model of software delivery, there is much to learn from industry’s that have produced either perfect or imperfect parallels. When I say ‘perfect’ I mean one with a distribution concept that provides a metaphor for SaaS, while ‘imperfect’ is more akin to an […]

I’ve been following a series of blog posts by Lars Fløe Nielsen, Michel Baladi and some other folks from Microsoft, Sitecore and other firms. The posts follow a proof-of-concept project established by the firms to investigate how a “SaaS Hosting Platform”, or SHP, ought to look like. I appreciate the effort that has gone into […]

Just a quick note: Datamation recently invited me to write an article for their website.  The article, entitled Repealing the SaaS Tax, was published a few days ago and it focuses on SaaS enablement, and more specifically, enablement through platforms, so check it out and let me know what you think!
PS: Sorry for the late notice