A Great Video Describing a Fictitious SaaS Platform

Mar 5, 2008 by Sinclair Schuller

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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