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1. Message to NetSuite - SaaS Vision is About More Than Just "the Suite"
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... have merit. In fact, we ask these questions, and many others, when helping clients incorporate broader SaaS adoption into their organizations. Our Services 2.0 piece describes our view of how systems ...

2. The Google Homepage - The Future Face of SaaS?
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

Software as a Service (SaaS) continues to gain momentum in the enterprise and is on its way to becoming a $20B market by 2011 (industry estimates from CSFB and Tripletree). Google, with its “iGoogle” ...

3. Microsoft to Partners: We Still Don't Get SaaS
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... at left). Microsoft's lack of a choice (on-premise vs. SaaS) is the core issue. Choice when used in the context of technology architecture typically points to a vendor with a conflicted or transitional ...

4. What PaaS Should Learn from the August 2003 Blackouts
(Platform as a Service/saasblogs)

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 ...

5. Insights and Observations from the Pacific Crest On-Demand Conference
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... to make. Can Companies Have Their SaaS Cake and Eat It Too? Can companies successfully split their focus between traditional software and on-demand services? This is a question we've been raising, ...

6. Executives talk about the problems in Enterprise SaaS
(Platform as a Service/Thoughts On Salesforce)

There were 2 very interesting SaaS discussions organized during the Always On Summit at Stanford. One session was titled ‘Will the Next Salesforce.com Please Stand Up?’ and the other was titled ‘Will SaaS ...

7. Accenture 1.0 - Recycled "Investments," But Still No SaaS Innovation
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

Traditional on-premise systems integrators like Accenture will embrace SaaS - at a snail's pace. We highlighted the macro level impact of SaaS on Global SIs in a February piece entitled Services 2.0 - ...

8. Who is “fit” to provide enterprise apps?
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

Narinder Singh The SaaS blogosphere has been abuzz these last couple of days discussing Sergey Solyanik’s assessment that Google’s culture is “not fit” for enterprise apps. We’ll say up front that Appirio ...

9. Dreamforce '07 - Appirio's Observations for Enterprise Executives & CIOs
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... change their IT stacks through on-demand. iGoogle, Where SaaS Comes Together - The awareness of Google as an enterprise SaaS player is starting to grow. Dreamforce attendees pried for additional detail ...

10. Where in the World is Appirio?
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... (SaaS) platforms that have now emerged from the likes of Salesforce.com, Google and Amazon.com. While these projects may be less awe-inspiring than actually addressing the issue of world hunger, they ...

11. Business by Delay - On-premise and on-demand are like oil and water for SAP
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... software. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), on the other hand, allows, and flourishes with, continual refinement based on customer usage. This affects every aspect of the development lifecycle. SAP ...

12. Now that’s a Big PaaS Market
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... How big is the market for solutions based upon on-demand platforms? Is the pie big enough to build great companies on a slice of it? Size Matters The SaaS market as it is currently ...

13. What Do You Get When You Cross Salesforce.com and Amazon S3?
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

Narinder Singh You get Appirio Cloud Storage for Salesforce.com, a new SaaS offering from Appirio that taps Amazon S3 to extend the storage capabilities of Salesforce.com. (We ...

14. Answers to the salesforce.com - Google Rumors
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... Oracle, etc. will not be able to create a "me too" announcement. This reflects the fundamental gap between on-premise software and the Internet. While SaaS solutions live and breathe because of the ...

15. Google and salesforce.com - Like Peanut Butter and Jelly
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... really wasn't possible. But in the SaaS world, on the Internet, information can be connected in a scalable way, allowing even small ISVs to create commercial-grade innovative solutions. We hope other ...

16. Adobe Embraces the Cloud - Hazy Days Ahead for Microsoft?
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... I just wait?   We have, in this blog, often highlighted the fundamental challenges facing on-premise vendors attempting to create Internet-based SaaS solutions.  They face two basic constraints.  First ...

17. SaaS Interface Design - SaaS exists in between desktop and web
(Platform as a Service/Catalyst Resources)

In late spring of this year, I received an email from M.T. Hoogvliet, a student of Interaction Design in the Netherlands. He was writing a thesis on SaaS Interface Design with a goal to develop a set ...

18. Finding the secret sauce for a profitable SaaS business model
(Platform as a Service/Catalyst Resources)

Last time I checked, the point of running a software or services business is to make money. But very few companies have done so yet in the SaaS space. Admittedly, SaaS is still at a relatively early stage ...

19. The dividing line between winners and losers in SaaS
(Platform as a Service/Catalyst Resources)

Having worked with a significant number of organizations on SaaS strategy and design, I see a pretty clear picture emerging of factors that define the winners and the losers. So what makes a winning vs ...

20. Appirio Cloud Storage for Salesforce.com
(Platform as a Service/Thoughts On Salesforce)

Appirio today announced Appirio Cloud Storage for Salesforce.com, a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering that uses Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) to extend the capabilities of salesforce.com. ...