A Great Video Describing a Fictitious SaaS Platform
Eugenio Pace from Microsoft’s SaaS Architecture Team published a great webcast describing the potential relationship between ISVs and hosters and how a SaaS platform fits in. It’s worth the watch. One of the major takeaways from the video is that a good platform marginalizes an ISVs efforts involving things like multi-tenancy, onboarding of new customers, monetization, operations, revenue modeling, etc. but still gives an ISV autonomy, complete control over their offerings core definition and the interactions their customers have with the application. It’s a lengthy 30 minute video, but well worth the watch.
If you watched the video, how receptive are you to the ideas Eugenio outlined?
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The ideas in the video are solid and concrete. I guess the idea of using proprietary API’s that the ISV provides in order to lower cost might not be attractive to most CSV’s. Why lock yourself in to an ISV that provides commodity value (billing,metering etc) to your product ? I see a case for a standards body moving and defining a layer of common services that ISV’s can then add value over. This would ensure minimum lock in and competition between ISVs to provide better implementations.