SaaS Blogs

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 […]

Generally, most of my posts introduce a topic, question, or label (we’ll call it x), and then I provide a y to describe and foundationally support x. Well, for this post I’m going the opposite direction. For this particular x, I find that the sheer mention of it causes people to cringe and howl. Instead, I’ll give you y first, and then x […]

Alarmist titles are great, aren’t they? In all seriousness, I don’t intend to take an alarmist position in this post. However, I do want to highlight something that we discuss at Apprenda as the “buckle risk” that SaaS providers must deal with.
Rapid growth, when used as a blanket term, tends to be associated with success […]

Yesterday, Will Price of Hummer Winblad wrote a terrific quantitative analysis comparing the upfront funding needs of SaaS vendors, or application providers, with the funding needs of traditional software firms. In case there was any doubt, his data shows that funding a SaaS endeavor requires substantially more money – on the order of 3.65 times […]

If all SaaS was meant to be browser-based, it would have been called ‘Web Apps As A Service’ (WaaaS). So let’s not forget that when we’re talking about SaaS, we’re talking about the evolution of software, not just web apps. Given that, it’s a bit incorrect to say that SaaS is the natural evolution of […]

Is transitioning from traditional enterprise software development to SaaS delivery becoming a necessary evil of a tech boom that makes established development firms quiver in fear?  We know how platforms aim to empower SaaS startups; the buzz about Apex earlier this week illustrates that much.  But while enablement solutions - platforms - aim to lower barriers for […]

When I first read of the Apex rumor, (Salesforce.com’s new “on demand programming language and platform”) over at Salesforcewatch.com, I started monitoring some of the various blogs and sites I regularly read for related news. I was hoping to find some tidbits of information that aren’t part of Salesforce.com’s marketing spiel. After Salesforce’s official Apex announcement, I found […]

As usual, Fred Chong has posted another great article, this time directly addressing the space of what he calls an SDP, or “Service Delivery Platform.” In short, an SDP is a platform that allow for the deployment and delivery of a SaaS application. This notion of SDP is what will be one of the driving […]