SaaS Blogs

Although my focus in life right now is CEO of Apprenda, I come from a software development and architecture background (I needed to put my Math/Comp Sci. degree to good use at some point in my life). Anyone who has written software in any “old” (in this case, the double quotes are for sarcasm) platform […]

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 […]

If you haven’t heard, Salesforce.com and VMWare plan on making a joint product announcement on April 27th at http://www.vmforce.com. Clearly, this piqued the curiosity of many, including myself. Thinking about Force.com, Salesforce.com’s strategy around the platform to date, and VMWare’s activity and intent to become more entrenched in the Cloud, my best guess is that […]

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 […]