SaaS Blogs

For those who don’t know who Malcolm McLean is, I’ll give a brief introduction. Malcolm McLean invented the modern shipping container: you know, the ones that come in on cargo ships, are craned onto trucks and trains, and that provide a standard for transporting goods worldwide. So why are his ideas important and what does […]

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 […]

I like a good mystery just as much as the next guy, and this story’s got it all.  If you haven’t got the time or interest to read the whole forum thread, here’s the synopsis:  Jatol.com (no hyperlink provided because of said mystery), a notable web hosting company seemingly popular with development crowds has simply […]

The SaaS world is abuzz around Google yet again with yesterday’s news that Google will acquire on-demand communications security firm Postini Solutions for $625 million.  The acquisition is aimed at bolstering enterprise security and management confidence in the Google Apps online suite, and seems to be a direct mirror of Microsoft’s Exchange Hosted Services strategy which was […]

Although most people don’t realize it, plenty of advertising and announcement techniques use “sleight of hand” style approaches to exploit your first glance and focus your attention on the content of the ad and an intended message rather than seeing the truth. This technique is common among propagandists and corporations alike. Let’s look at some […]

“Beta”
The word somehow snuck its way into the plethora of Web 2.0 buzzwords. 

GMail and Google Calendar!…beta. 
Windows Live Alerts, Gallery, QnA, Soapbox, Office, and Mail!…beta. 
Flickr!…gamma. (?) 

These services have hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of users and yet they still wear the beta badge.  Some have done so for nearly 2 years.  Clearly, there is an understanding and acceptance amongst […]

Although SaaS is in and of itself of a unique and powerful model of software delivery, there is much to learn from industry’s that have produced either perfect or imperfect parallels. When I say ‘perfect’ I mean one with a distribution concept that provides a metaphor for SaaS, while ‘imperfect’ is more akin to an […]