Comments for SaaS Blogs: Software as a Service Ideas, News & Business Intelligence http://www.saasblogs.com Understanding the "as a Service" Revolution Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:34:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on SaaS Network Effect – Get it or get left behind by Insight as a Service http://www.saasblogs.com/business/saas-network-effect-get-it-or-get-left-behind/#comment-194409 Insight as a Service Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:34:07 +0000 http://www.saasblogs.com/?p=295#comment-194409 [...] prove the real differentiator between the existing and next-generation SaaS applications (see also here, and Salesforce’s acquisition of [...] [...] prove the real differentiator between the existing and next-generation SaaS applications (see also here, and Salesforce’s acquisition of [...]

]]> Comment on SaaS 101: The Benefits by Software As A Service http://www.saasblogs.com/business/saas-101-the-benefits/#comment-190348 Software As A Service Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:55:14 +0000 http://www.saasblogs.com/2007/05/02/saas-101-the-benefits/#comment-190348 This is nice & rare resource....thanks for sharing..!!! This is nice & rare resource….thanks for sharing..!!!

]]> Comment on A Pricing Strategy for Your SaaS Offering by Michael Pang http://www.saasblogs.com/business/a-pricing-strategy-for-your-saas-offering/#comment-187821 Michael Pang Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:20:22 +0000 http://www.saasblogs.com/2008/01/07/a-pricing-strategy-for-your-saas-offering/#comment-187821 How can we get an idea of how much SaaS companies charge for enterprise? Everyone knows it's cheaper than proprietary but can you give some examples of SaaS pricing models that have been successful? They usually don't tell you the information on their website and require you to speak with their sales team before they divulge their pricing How can we get an idea of how much SaaS companies charge for enterprise? Everyone knows it’s cheaper than proprietary but can you give some examples of SaaS pricing models that have been successful? They usually don’t tell you the information on their website and require you to speak with their sales team before they divulge their pricing

]]> Comment on The Disastrous Consequences of PaaS Provider Lock-in: Why Open PaaS Makes Sense by Ram Kumar http://www.saasblogs.com/business/the-disastrous-consequences-of-paas-provider-lock-in-open-paa/#comment-186766 Ram Kumar Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:59:33 +0000 http://www.saasblogs.com/?p=577#comment-186766 The division of PaaS in to P&S, has become such an imperative that many vendors offer both options. Gartner divides the space in to PaaS and CEAP where CEAP is the Platform without the service. Even among CEAP vendors the flexibility, control and stickiness varies widely. From frameworks with source code that retain the granual control of the underlying stack (.NET / Java) to Run time Appliances such as Orangescape, Longjump and Corrent. From Platforms that focus on Development to those that are focused on Deployment, From 4GL and RAD to traditional 3GL development. Customers eed to discern all the subtle differences while evaluating their options. The division of PaaS in to P&S, has become such an imperative that many vendors offer both options. Gartner divides the space in to PaaS and CEAP where CEAP is the Platform without the service. Even among CEAP vendors the flexibility, control and stickiness varies widely. From frameworks with source code that retain the granual control of the underlying stack (.NET / Java) to Run time Appliances such as Orangescape, Longjump and Corrent. From Platforms that focus on Development to those that are focused on Deployment, From 4GL and RAD to traditional 3GL development. Customers eed to discern all the subtle differences while evaluating their options.

]]> Comment on Does PaaS Depend on IaaS? Nope. by Sinclair Schuller http://www.saasblogs.com/general-technology/does-paas-depend-on-iaas-nope/#comment-183458 Sinclair Schuller Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:20:26 +0000 http://www.saasblogs.com/?p=598#comment-183458 If you're a LinkedIn user, a good amount of follow-up commentary to this post can be found at http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Should-PaaS-be-built-on-4084799.S.86040597 If you’re a LinkedIn user, a good amount of follow-up commentary to this post can be found at http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Should-PaaS-be-built-on-4084799.S.86040597

]]> Comment on When Should Software be Sold Pay Per Use? by Chris http://www.saasblogs.com/saas/when-should-software-be-sold-pay-per-use/#comment-182514 Chris Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:34:07 +0000 http://www.saasblogs.com/?p=214#comment-182514 Hi Great article. I am developing a product that is very niche and will be used by market research companies. It's just me on my own, a lonely developer. Currently there are 3 companies using it just from word of mouth and no effort on my part. They pay ~£200 per month for the privilege. On average, it is used 0.7 times per month to create a new Project in the system, although It has only been running for about 11 months now. Now that i'm starting to take the project more serious and thinking of expanding, I'm wondering what I should be charging, or if I should be charging per use. Additionally, the client that each Project is created for (their client not mine) can log into the system at any point to look at the research done for them (their projects), so this is an incentive for my clients to keep paying their monthly fee so that their clients can log in to the system. Incidentally, their clients are literally some of the biggest brands that exist. Can anyone give me some advice on what I should do or what my next steps should be? Regards Chris Hi
Great article.
I am developing a product that is very niche and will be used by market research companies. It’s just me on my own, a lonely developer. Currently there are 3 companies using it just from word of mouth and no effort on my part. They pay ~£200 per month for the privilege. On average, it is used 0.7 times per month to create a new Project in the system, although It has only been running for about 11 months now. Now that i’m starting to take the project more serious and thinking of expanding, I’m wondering what I should be charging, or if I should be charging per use. Additionally, the client that each Project is created for (their client not mine) can log into the system at any point to look at the research done for them (their projects), so this is an incentive for my clients to keep paying their monthly fee so that their clients can log in to the system. Incidentally, their clients are literally some of the biggest brands that exist. Can anyone give me some advice on what I should do or what my next steps should be?
Regards
Chris

]]> Comment on Does PaaS Depend on IaaS? Nope. by Sinclair Schuller http://www.saasblogs.com/general-technology/does-paas-depend-on-iaas-nope/#comment-182487 Sinclair Schuller Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:36:17 +0000 http://www.saasblogs.com/?p=598#comment-182487 Thanks Ranga! I actually agree with your comment. To help really drive things home, I am opposed to virtualization as being architecturally part of a PaaS implementation, and most specifically, as the way to implement multi-tenant isolation in the PaaS. That doesn't mean virtualization doesn't have its place as an infrastructure solution, it just has no place as an architectural solution in the implementation of a PaaS. In fact, I would encourage lots of instances where VMs underneath a PaaS make sense, and lots where VMs should be left out of the equation altogether. One simply needs to grasp the criteria in making that decision, but that's a long enough topic that warrants another post;-) Thanks Ranga! I actually agree with your comment. To help really drive things home, I am opposed to virtualization as being architecturally part of a PaaS implementation, and most specifically, as the way to implement multi-tenant isolation in the PaaS. That doesn’t mean virtualization doesn’t have its place as an infrastructure solution, it just has no place as an architectural solution in the implementation of a PaaS.

In fact, I would encourage lots of instances where VMs underneath a PaaS make sense, and lots where VMs should be left out of the equation altogether. One simply needs to grasp the criteria in making that decision, but that’s a long enough topic that warrants another post;-)

]]> Comment on Does PaaS Depend on IaaS? Nope. by Ranga http://www.saasblogs.com/general-technology/does-paas-depend-on-iaas-nope/#comment-182372 Ranga Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:01:02 +0000 http://www.saasblogs.com/?p=598#comment-182372 Great post! good definition of PaaS Comment & Questions: I think managing pools of OS resources across OS instances and making capacity available on the fly are two different things. If there was a system outside the OS that can monitor load and add capacity when needed, coupled with an intelligent appserver inside the OS that starts using the capacity, can enterprises solve the same problem that PaaS is trying to solve? Secondly, you could do PaaS on physical environment but how close to reality is adding physical capacity as quickly as the need grows. When millions of users use google docs, I can't imagine Google adding physical capacity and letting their GAE aware of the new capacity. If you are saying you could do PaaS on physical for smaller SaaS apps, why do I even need PaaS if I am not expecting sudden spikes? Great post! good definition of PaaS

Comment & Questions:
I think managing pools of OS resources across OS instances and making capacity available on the fly are two different things. If there was a system outside the OS that can monitor load and add capacity when needed, coupled with an intelligent appserver inside the OS that starts using the capacity, can enterprises solve the same problem that PaaS is trying to solve?
Secondly, you could do PaaS on physical environment but how close to reality is adding physical capacity as quickly as the need grows. When millions of users use google docs, I can’t imagine Google adding physical capacity and letting their GAE aware of the new capacity. If you are saying you could do PaaS on physical for smaller SaaS apps, why do I even need PaaS if I am not expecting sudden spikes?

]]> Comment on The Hijacking of PaaS: Cloud Runtimes are the Real McCoy by Chris Haddad http://www.saasblogs.com/saas/the-hijacking-of-paas/#comment-174294 Chris Haddad Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:45:44 +0000 http://www.saasblogs.com/?p=583#comment-174294 Sinclair, as usual, you post a nugget of wisdom and describe good use cases. You make an excellent distinction between simply pushing bits (an operations activity) and injecting application behavior (an application run-time activity) shielding developers from run-time infrastructure details (i.e. location, topology, scale, coordination, lifecycle management). I appreciate you finding an easy to understand dividing line. I didn't join WSO2 to see PaaS get hijacked and commoditized. My <a href="http://blog.cobia.net/cobiacomm" title="From the HomePort" rel="nofollow">HomePort @cobiacomm blog</a> is starting to describe a <a href="http://blog.cobia.net/cobiacomm/2011/11/02/paas-evaluation-framework-for-cios-and-architects/" title="PaaS Evaluation Framework" rel="nofollow">PaaS Evaluation Framework</a> and the current lack of <a href="http://blog.cobia.net/cobiacomm/2011/11/25/searching-for-cloud-architecture/" title="Cloud Architecture" rel="nofollow">architecture distinction</a>. Sinclair, as usual, you post a nugget of wisdom and describe good use cases. You make an excellent distinction between simply pushing bits (an operations activity) and injecting application behavior (an application run-time activity) shielding developers from run-time infrastructure details (i.e. location, topology, scale, coordination, lifecycle management). I appreciate you finding an easy to understand dividing line.

I didn’t join WSO2 to see PaaS get hijacked and commoditized. My HomePort @cobiacomm blog is starting to describe a PaaS Evaluation Framework and the current lack of architecture distinction.

]]> Comment on Which Part of the Public vs. Private Cloud Elephant Are You Touching? by Sam Charrington http://www.saasblogs.com/saas/which-part-of-the-public-vs-private-cloud-elephant-are-you-touching/#comment-168832 Sam Charrington Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:24:57 +0000 http://www.saasblogs.com/?p=501#comment-168832 Sinclair, I just came across this great post of yours. I'm wondering if you've ever happened across my own related post, "<a href="http://cloudpulseblog.com/2008/08/the-blind-men-and-cloud" rel="nofollow">The Blind Men and the Cloud</a>". The post is a bit dated, but the themes remain very relevant as you've pointed out. Sam Sinclair,

I just came across this great post of yours. I’m wondering if you’ve ever happened across my own related post, “The Blind Men and the Cloud“. The post is a bit dated, but the themes remain very relevant as you’ve pointed out.

Sam

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