SaaS Blogs

One question that has popped up in some blog posts recently is whether the notion of “private cloud” is a misnomer or if it conceptually even makes sense. Some of the conversation started when Andrew Conry-Murray posted that the term “private cloud” is bunk and no such thing exists. I have to completely disagree with […]

This is a very good podcast of Phil Wainewright from The Connected Web interviewing Rick Nucci, CTO of SaaS integration vendor Boomi on the impact of multi-tenant architecture on the operational cost of delivering software in a SaaS fashion.
Two choice excerpts:
“SuccessFactors recently gave a speech, [by CEO] Lars [Dalgaard], talking about their architecture and their […]

On Tuesday, February 2nd the authors of this blog and some of our business partners will be hosting a webinar to illuminate some of the key considerations and challenges ISV’s face when looking to bring a SaaS offering to market in 2010. This session will include a deep dive into the SaaS business model as well as the operational side of the equation and feature key insights and lessons learned from the frontlines of managing SaaS businesses.

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 […]

I love the idea that a balance exists between ideology and practicality. Questions of ideology and practicality always arise when it comes to building software, building a business, and building a software business. SaaS is no exception.
Interestingly, I had two different discussions with people who were of the position that aspiring SaaS company’s should “put […]

I wanted to share a quick note with all SaaSBlogs readers regarding Apprenda. You may have noticed that I haven’t been my prolific writing self as of late, but with good reason! Apprenda is a venture capital backed company, and I was very busy raising another round of funding which can definitely sap your time […]

We (Apprenda) had a great event recently down in NYC, and our presentation was extremely well received.  It was standing room only at the Public House, and Abe presented to a great group of ISVs and tech savvy networkers that came out to join us.  Thanks again to everyone who made it out!
For those of […]

Lately, I’ve had the great pleasure of being able to work with startups from the Microsoft BizSpark program that are leveraging SaaSGrid to bring their SaaS apps to market. It’s really been a blast, and it’s great to see the success they’re having and the enthusiasm about our product and what it’s doing for their […]

As many of you know, SaaSBlogs is written and maintained by the creators of SaaSGrid.  We have a few events coming up next week, and we thought you’d be interested:
Going From SaaS Product Idea to Paying Customers in Under 6 Months (WEBINAR)
When: September 25th, 2009 at 1:00PM EDT
Where: Register Here!
This will be a great event.  You’ll […]