SaaS Blogs

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, […]

It’s common place to discuss SaaS adoption as being driven by either an ISVs need to remain competitive or tackle new markets, or by customer demand to move responsibility away from internal IT to an outsourced provider. I support this as being very true, and we can thank these two constituents as being the driving force behind recent adoption. But is that all of the muscle that the SaaS movement […]

 
As the year winds up it’s always good to analyze how things turned out; we normally look into the past, compare the present and prepare for the future. It’s never good to wonder without ever checking if you are in the right path and thanks to the feedback from many of you, things are turning […]

Hello everyone,
Before his first post is published here on SaaSBlogs.com, I want to introduce our new co-author Abe Sultan.  Abe is a frequent commenter here on SaaSBlogs and throughout the SaaS blogosphere.  I’m also happy to disclose that Abe holds the VP of Business Development position at our company, Apprenda. We’re very much looking forward to writing further articles with […]

If you read this blog and/or subscribe to our SaaSBlogs RSS feed, than we already know that you have an interest in SaaS.  Now, if you’re a software engineer on top of that, then we urge you to head on over to www.apprenda.com/careers and check out the currently available positions:

Software Engineer - SaaSGrid (disclosure: as mentioned […]

Marc Andreessen posted an excellent article breaking down Internet platforms into three “levels”. If you only have time for one article you would be better off to read his than mine but to summarize, the levels are described as:

Level 1: API driven, app lives outside of the “platform” (Think Flickr)
Level 2: Plugging an extension via an […]

When formulating the architectural foundation for a SaaS application, ISVs will inevitably encounter the age old build vs. buy decision.  SaaS enablement is hot right now, giving vendors a plethora of options on the buy side. 
Nick Carr has an interesting argument in support of the buy scenario - specifically urging vendors to buy into a horizontally aligned […]

Hello from sunny Santa Clara.  We’re at SaaSCon 2007 at the Santa Clara Convention Center today and tomorrow.  From the looks of the exhibit floor and the sound of the early keynotes this morning  there is plenty of opinion and information floating around. An interesting keynote was the ”Evaluating SaaS Infrastructure” keynote which described the challenges of […]

We’ve written quite a bit here about Salesforce’s Apex… and, admittedly, we’ve taken a somewhat critical stance on it.  Questions of identity crisis and ambiguity have boiled down to “Is it a SaaS platform, or a CRM platform? Is there a difference, and does it really matter what they call it as long as it is […]

I just stumbled across this little article on Rod Drury’s blog. The article describes the fact that when compared to traditional software, SaaS apps are much cheaper, therefore allowing individuals in an organization the ability to make purchase decisions without the consent of IT or expense approval. While this is one of those things that […]