SaaS Blogs

Coghead announced it was shutting it doors yesterday evening. For those unfamiliar with Coghead, it was a much talked about PaaS offering that offered an online application editor for rapid application development. They fell under the category of non-standard stack, a “4th generation language and runtime” (4GL) if you will. It seems that slow adoption coupled with the […]

As of late, I’ve had a number of conversations with different individuals regarding release cycles and what SaaS companies currently do and/or should do with respect to releasing upgrades to their offerings. The biggest question is how to map the release to your customer’s needs. In many cases, it’s ok to release an upgrade to […]

Below is a link to an interview conducted by Phil Wainewright with Mike Seckler, co-founder of Employease and Apprenda board member.  In the interview, Phil and Mike highlight some of the considerations and obstacles that ISVs must tackle to be truly successful.  The 8-minute podcast is well worth a listen for new ISVs and SaaS […]

One topic that is rarely addressed on blogs or in conversation is release management: the processes and science behind rolling out a new version of your SaaS offering. So imagine you’ve created the world’s next Salesforce.com: how do you plan on handling new releases? This question is stickier than it seems. There are a variety […]

I recently came across an initiative named Coming of Age with SaaS that is co-sponsored by Microsoft and Mural Consulting. It’s a free webinar on December 16th that seems to cover a lot of practical ground related to a variety of SaaS topics ranging from product development to customer service, so I figured the SaaSblogs community might be […]

I wanted to drop a quick note to everyone that today we’ve announced SaaSGrid’s public release. I wanted to thank everyone that is part of the SaaSBlogs community. I’ve had lots of interesting conversations (both online and offline) with readers. Many of those conversations directly have affected how we approached SaaSGrid as a technology and […]

I’m sure we can all agree that the number of acronyms and phrases related to online software keeps growing rather than shrinking. In order to make sense of it, we really need to focus on understanding where different concepts fit in from a big picture perspective. For example, I am often asked if Apprenda’s SaaSGrid […]

It’s difficult to argue that current economic conditions have a silver lining or that somehow SaaS is immune to it. In fact, Trip Chowdhry recently remarked that 1st generation SaaS companies are hurting and have dim future prospects, with SaaS startups facing a bleak fate as well. That said, ISVs facing declining or stagnant revenue streams may […]

The following is a guest post to SaaSBlogs by Joel York at Chaotic Flow
Most SaaS businesses embrace the idea that Web-based delivery and a multi-tenant architecture create economies-of-scale and lower TCO. Hence, they price their annual subscriptions at 1/5 to 1/20 the cost of an enterprise license. However, these savings only occur in R&D and […]

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 […]