SaaS Blogs

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 […]

One of my favorite (and most important) topics within the software industry is how can an existing, traditional ISV move into the SaaS space. For competitive reasons or new market reasons, many ISVs want to release SaaS offerings but are unsure of the approach, implementation, and risks. Let’s face it: not all SaaS offerings come […]

Generally, most of my posts introduce a topic, question, or label (we’ll call it x), and then I provide a y to describe and foundationally support x. Well, for this post I’m going the opposite direction. For this particular x, I find that the sheer mention of it causes people to cringe and howl. Instead, I’ll give you y first, and then x […]

Alarmist titles are great, aren’t they? In all seriousness, I don’t intend to take an alarmist position in this post. However, I do want to highlight something that we discuss at Apprenda as the “buckle risk” that SaaS providers must deal with.
Rapid growth, when used as a blanket term, tends to be associated with success […]

Yesterday, Will Price of Hummer Winblad wrote a terrific quantitative analysis comparing the upfront funding needs of SaaS vendors, or application providers, with the funding needs of traditional software firms. In case there was any doubt, his data shows that funding a SaaS endeavor requires substantially more money – on the order of 3.65 times […]

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 advent of SaaS has ushered in quite an exciting (and still unfolding) age in the IT industry. By its very nature, SaaS brings ever more diverse sets of software functionality to a much larger audience. With this, however, has come a slew of new terms, old terms with new meanings, and new concepts. The […]

If all SaaS was meant to be browser-based, it would have been called ‘Web Apps As A Service’ (WaaaS). So let’s not forget that when we’re talking about SaaS, we’re talking about the evolution of software, not just web apps. Given that, it’s a bit incorrect to say that SaaS is the natural evolution of […]