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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) […]

Should You Scale-proof SaaS Offerings Early?


A SaaSBlogs reader recently sent me a link to an article by Dharmesh Shah over at OnStartups. In a nutshell, the post articulated that building a highly scalable architecture when creating a new application is premature and creates a large resource tax on a startup’s already limited resources. This led to a vibrant thread of […]