SaaS Blogs

This post simply serves to provide a link to a post on another site, but I felt it very appropriate to shine the spotlight on a brilliant post by Ben Yoskovitz on Instigatorblog.com entitled ‘Lessons Learned Running A SaaS Business‘. While we tend to focus on the relative “newness” of SaaS, it’s always important […]

Here’s another spotlight article from Phil Wainewright on ZDNet - DST spells disaster for shrinkwrap software.
The article zeroes in on the impending daylight savings time change (it’s this weekend in case you didn’t know - a date earlier than any prior year), and the havoc that it has wreaked on on-premise, aka ’shrinkwrap’, software end users who must now navigate through […]

Rare is the day where using the phrase “SaaS Platform” doesn’t invoke the usage of “SaaS Ecosystem.” Heck, it even found its way to the title of the keynote panel I’m part of at April’s SaaSCon: Understanding SaaS Platforms and Ecosystems. The reason for this “two peas in a pod” syndrome is pretty easy to […]

This is just a mini-post to aggregate the plethora of commentary surrounding the announcement of Google Apps Premier Edition.  Phrases like “in direct competition with Microsoft Office” abound, but overall it’s apparent that there are still a tremendous amount of questions surrounding the maturity level of the application suite.
Here’s a bit of what’s being said:

Don Dodge - Microsoft Emerging […]

If you haven’t read it, I wrote a post the other day regarding traditional sales channels and SaaS end users, highlighting the potential need to reach these end users with creative partnerships. I used the NetSuite/CompUSA partnership as an example. I bumped into a post over on Phil Wainewrights blog this morning about NetSuite’s recent parternship […]

From the vendor’s perspective, SaaS is more than just a distribution model; it’s a new way of doing business. Many of you have heard it before; no more large license-fee deals, issues with compensating your sales team, planning around incrementally growing yet recurring revenue, etc. The single most important question, however, is “How do I […]

It’s been a few months now since Salesforce.com introduced Apex to the world, and we’ve all had ample time to digest the concept, analyze it, debate about it, and just generally figure out our own positions on the proposition.  One thing’s for sure, the announcement of Apex brought the total level of industry ’saas platform’ buzz somewhere into the realm […]

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 […]

I bumped into an article at Computer World titled Survey: SAAS satisfaction dropping as customer interest expands. The article highlights a report by the Cutter Consortium and Jeffrey Kaplan of THINKstrategies. In summary, the report discusses an interesting trend in a drop in customer satisfaction among SaaS users despite the fact that interest in the […]

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 […]