SaaS Blogs

I recently read a comment by Marc Benioff that baffled me. Dan Farber recently interviewed him and summarized the interview in his latest post Salesforce.com’s platform ambitions. In the interview, Farber asks Benioff whether a company like SuccessFactors should write natively to the Apex platform instead of just integrating with Salesforce.com through the sForce API. […]

At first glance, the concept of a SaaS ecosystem seems to provide value only for the end user, giving SaaS customers a map benevolently drawn by the divine cartographers of their SaaS/ecosystem providers to navigate the ever growing jungle of offerings and value propositions. But as the age old saying “Never judge a book by […]

Apprenda, developer of an upcoming general purpose SaaS platform for ISVs, is a sponsor of the SaasCon Conference which will take place April 17th and 18th in Santa Clara, CA.

Apprenda will also be on the exhibition floor at booth 416.

There’s no doubt that a good deal of writings about SaaS in 2006 focused on the platform concept. Here at SaaSBlogs.com, we too have a propensity for the on demand platform, as indicated by four of the five most popular posts from 2006 according to you, the readers:

Salesforce.com’s Apex: Benioff’s Handcuffs for On Demand

Scale […]

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 […]

Matt just posted about a content/style update to the Apprenda website of major significance. Previously, we alluded to Apprenda being a “SaaS enablement” company, and while thats true, we’re also much more.
Apprenda is concentrating on creating a revolutionary on-demand platform. Right now, that’s all we’re saying. We plan on keeping the community/industry posted, but you […]

You may know us here at SaaSBlogs.com for our patented analyses (read: diatribes) on the major SaaS players and the SaaS industry in general over the past several months. Indeed, some posts have sparked great discussions and even a few heated debates.

Well, the truth is, we’re critical because we care. And why do we care? […]

I’ve been keeping tabs on an interesting company named Swivel for a little while now. I bumped into their blog recently, and have read a couple of articles, including one by ZDNet blogger Mitch Ratcliffe. The basic idea behind Swivel is to be a central place for intelligently parsed and analyzed data for use in […]

Wow, talk about a (relatively) hot topic! Recently, a web of blog posts full of coined terms, rebuttals, and re-definitions was spun by some of the blogs I frequent. I recently read articles by Dan Farber, Phil Wainewright, David Terrar, Thomas Otter, Nick Carr, Dennis Howlett, and Vinnie Mirchandani (whew, monster list!) that discussed the […]

I’ve been keeping tabs on SaaSCon and the speakers. A post on the SaaSCon Revolution blog seems to paraphrase Hummer Winblad’s Ann Winblad:
SaaS allows software companies to SCALE at a rate that is so much higher than traditional software companies.
This statement couldn’t be more true. One thing I tend to think about is the long […]