SaaS Blogs

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 […]

One topic that fascinates me is the discussion of commodity hardware. Recently, Abe Sultan, our VP of Engineering at Apprenda, spoke on a panel with a few other great folks regarding the topic of leveraging commodity hardware. People LOVE to talk about commodity hardware, but what does it really mean in the context of SaaS and SaaS […]

Hi everyone,
We had a great turnout last week for the webinar, and a number of people have asked if they could get access to the recording, so here it is. I’ve also compiled a list of some of the question from the Q&A session here, along with the answers.
Q&A
Q: We have our app completed, but are […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

Ok, I admit that I have a fetish for buzz acronyms, but I promise the use of service oriented architectures (SOA) and SaaS in this posts title is appropriate and introduces an important topic! Specifically, I’d like to tackle SaaS implementation approaches and how these different approaches relate to a SaaS business.
When deciding on how […]

A SaaSBlogs reader recently sent me a link to an article by Dharmesh Shah over at OnStartups. In a nutshell, the post articulated that building a highly scalable architecture when creating a new application is premature and creates a large resource tax on a startup’s already limited resources. This led to a vibrant thread of […]

I’ve written about many of the obvious advantages of a SaaS platform before: harnessing a platform to reduce implementation time, cost of implementation and/or transition (for you ISVs with existing product lines), reduction in operational costs, and the list goes on. But what about not so obvious advantages? After some fruitful discussion with individuals at […]