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How Complex Can SaaS Offerings Get?


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 […]

Defensively Architecting a SaaS Implementation


If you’re a SaaSBlogs regular, you’re probably a big fan of the SaaS delivery model. One thing you also probably know is that one of the downfalls of the delivery model stems from the fact that it increases overall cost of failure and cost of downtime since it moves usage from a decentralized (aka on-premise) […]

Enterprise SaaS != Web 2.0: A Quick Hosting Perspective


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 […]

Can the Fortune 500 Achieve Efficiency through Intra-enterprise SaaS?


SaaS is generally approached from the standpoint that a SaaS provider will write an application and sell it as a service to other businesses. This provides the many well known business driver benefits to those who use SaaS. Additionally, it is also well understood that the provider generates certain efficiencies via the centralization of the […]

SaaS Ecosystems: Are They Valuable and To Whom?


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 […]

The Evolution of SaaS


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 SaaS Swivel, Double Line, and Rig Setup


I’ve been keeping tabs on an interesting company named Swivel for a little while now. I bumped into their blog recently, and have read a couple of articles, including one by ZDNet blogger Mitch Ratcliffe. The basic idea behind Swivel is to be a central place for intelligently parsed and analyzed data for use in […]