SaaS Blogs

Part of defining your SaaS business is determining a pricing strategy. Two primary categories of pricing taxonomy in the SaaS space are pay per use (each time a user uses your software, you charge a well known amount. Much like buying beer at the bar) vs. fixed recurring pricing (much like paying for cable television, […]

I just read a great article by Joshua Greenbaum that brushed on the topic of the next iteration of SaaS. Greenbaum identifies SaaS 2.0 as being offerings that use aggregated data across the customer base to extract valuable information that can help any one of the customers individually. This is basically the concept of “benchmarking”. I’m completely […]

We’re in an interesting transition within the software space. Specifically, we’re all in agreement that SaaS is changing the industry in a very positive way. More importantly, however, is the recent evolution of platform as a service (PaaS), which is where Apprenda lives. Recently, we’ve seen more and more noise around PaaS (both consumer and […]

Ok, I admit that I have a fetish for buzz acronyms, but I promise the use of service oriented architectures (SOA) and SaaS in this posts title is appropriate and introduces an important topic! Specifically, I’d like to tackle SaaS implementation approaches and how these different approaches relate to a SaaS business.
When deciding on how […]

Uri Lederman of Konverge recently published an excellent post that maps the internal machinations of a non-SaaS ISV to those of a SaaS ISV. The key takeaway from that post is that the move from non-SaaS to SaaS is not only a revenue and model change, but also an operational change for ISVs. On various […]

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 […]

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, […]

I bumped into a brief but impactful article by Renee Boucher Ferguson titled “ISVs Snub Salesforce’s Force.com Platform“. The post basically summarized a situation that occurred after OpSource’s SaaS Summit. Following a panel discussion on SaaS platforms, ZDNet’s SaaS blogger Phil Wainewright conducted a brief poll of about 250 software vendors asking the following questions (paraphrased):

How many people […]

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 […]

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) […]