SaaS Blogs

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 […]

Are today’s SaaS enablement technologies robust enough to support business to business SaaS?  It’s a question I ask myself everytime I am introduced to a new ‘mashup engine’ or ‘online SaaS IDE’.  Granted, there are some very impressive products out there right now, Bungee Labs’ BungeeConnect and CogHead for example.  But initial impressions aside - are […]

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 […]

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 […]

Regardless of whether one believes that Darwinian evolution is how the species of this planet came to be, most will agree that the premise and underlying structure of evolution is both powerful and to some degree measurable in the real world. One of the most important things to ask IS “Why study history and why […]

The advent of SaaS has ushered in quite an exciting (and still unfolding) age in the IT industry. By its very nature, SaaS brings ever more diverse sets of software functionality to a much larger audience. With this, however, has come a slew of new terms, old terms with new meanings, and new concepts. The […]

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 […]