SaaS Blogs

Although my focus in life right now is CEO of Apprenda, I come from a software development and architecture background (I needed to put my Math/Comp Sci. degree to good use at some point in my life). Anyone who has written software in any “old” (in this case, the double quotes are for sarcasm) platform […]

Hi everyone,
We just yesterday released a brand new white paper entitled “Understanding the Cost of Becoming a Sustained Market Leader in the Software Business Through Software as a Service”, that we thought the community might be interested in. It’s vendor neutral, no product pushing, etc, and we’ve gotten great feedback thus far.  As always, we’d […]

When thinking of the cloud, there are two sides to the coin: those who build SaaS offerings and those who consume them. For those who build SaaS applications, we’ve seen a glut of tools crop up to help engineer, architect and deploy SaaS offerings. Some are “horizontally” aligned (think EC2 on the IaaS side, SaaSGrid […]

If you haven’t heard, Salesforce.com and VMWare plan on making a joint product announcement on April 27th at http://www.vmforce.com. Clearly, this piqued the curiosity of many, including myself. Thinking about Force.com, Salesforce.com’s strategy around the platform to date, and VMWare’s activity and intent to become more entrenched in the Cloud, my best guess is that […]

Yes! How’s that for a quick answer? In all seriousness, I believe this to be a “no brainer,” but I think the burden of proof is on me to describe why. I think it’s important to set context and work our way backwards to conclude that an axiomatic ‘yes’ answers the question “Does ‘Self Provisioning’ […]

This is a very good podcast of Phil Wainewright from The Connected Web interviewing Rick Nucci, CTO of SaaS integration vendor Boomi on the impact of multi-tenant architecture on the operational cost of delivering software in a SaaS fashion.
Two choice excerpts:
“SuccessFactors recently gave a speech, [by CEO] Lars [Dalgaard], talking about their architecture and their […]

On Tuesday, February 2nd the authors of this blog and some of our business partners will be hosting a webinar to illuminate some of the key considerations and challenges ISV’s face when looking to bring a SaaS offering to market in 2010. This session will include a deep dive into the SaaS business model as well as the operational side of the equation and feature key insights and lessons learned from the frontlines of managing SaaS businesses.

Last night I gave a talk on SaaS to about 100 members of the NY Entrepreneurs Business Network and the NY BizSpark Meetup group at Microsoft’s office in New York (thanks to NYEBN and MSFT ISV Evangelist Gunther Lenz for inviting me). We had a very good discussion around the progression of the software industry from Client-Server to Web Applications and the ASP’s of the late 90’s on to the current SaaS paradigm. The changes to the leaderboard of the software industry at each step in the evolution were obvious to the crowd…

Mike Vizard over at IT Business Edge wrote a blog post a couple of days ago where he described SaaSGrid as potentially having “…the most impact…” on the Cloud market (using the word ‘market’ here very loosely) when compared to other cloud technologies like Force.com and Azure. I’m both flattered and clearly in agreement, but […]

I love the idea that a balance exists between ideology and practicality. Questions of ideology and practicality always arise when it comes to building software, building a business, and building a software business. SaaS is no exception.
Interestingly, I had two different discussions with people who were of the position that aspiring SaaS company’s should “put […]