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 […]

It’s common place to equate Software as a Service with CRM, HR, or other “business function” style implementations. Although these implementations are not simple by any means, they generally do not require the computational rigor of an offering that performs complex mathematical analysis or photorealistic 3D rendering. In fact, it’s rare to hear that a […]

A while back Matt wrote an article called “SaaS 101: The Benefits” in which he discussed some of the benefits of the SaaS model for end users and software vendors alike. Of course, where there’s a yin there’s a yang, and so this article (a long time coming, we know) will explore the other side of the coin.
For the Customer & End […]

One of my favorite (and most important) topics within the software industry is how can an existing, traditional ISV move into the SaaS space. For competitive reasons or new market reasons, many ISVs want to release SaaS offerings but are unsure of the approach, implementation, and risks. Let’s face it: not all SaaS offerings come […]

In my previous post, I made mention that the true sign of SaaS’s arrival is that it has garnered the sincere interest, and better yet dollars, of the investment community.  More people in a greater array of business roles are giving SaaS the ol’ thumbs up.
We’ve established that the pursuit of SaaS is on the minds of *almost* everyone, but what […]