SaaS Blogs

About a year and a half ago, we posted the following poll and poll choices:
Your interest in Software as a Service is primarily for…

…App Development
…Platform Development
…Investment
…Just Curious

We ended up with 233 respondents and the following breakdown:

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Out of all 233 respondents, 165 (or 71%) were interested in either application or platform development. This essentially defines a […]

Conversations in the SaaS enablement space tend to focus on companies offering cloud application platforms (such as our very own SaaSGrid), enablement technologies such as billing services offered by folks like Aria Systems, or players like Amazon that are pushing “closer to the metal” cloud utilities like file storage via S3 or virtualization constructs via EC2. […]

A SaaSBlogs reader recently sent me a link to an article by Dharmesh Shah over at OnStartups. In a nutshell, the post articulated that building a highly scalable architecture when creating a new application is premature and creates a large resource tax on a startup’s already limited resources. This led to a vibrant thread of […]

I’ve written about many of the obvious advantages of a SaaS platform before: harnessing a platform to reduce implementation time, cost of implementation and/or transition (for you ISVs with existing product lines), reduction in operational costs, and the list goes on. But what about not so obvious advantages? After some fruitful discussion with individuals at […]

Marc Andreessen posted an excellent article breaking down Internet platforms into three “levels”. If you only have time for one article you would be better off to read his than mine but to summarize, the levels are described as:

Level 1: API driven, app lives outside of the “platform” (Think Flickr)
Level 2: Plugging an extension via an […]

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 […]