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1. 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 ...

2. 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 ...

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. 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” ...

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. 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 ...

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. For the end-user, the UI is the application
(Platform as a Service/Software As A Service Blog)

With his postings, Bob Krygowski highlighted many important aspects of Software as a Service, as in his The Other “S” in SaaS - Service Complementing Bob’s blogs, with this posting I will start discussing ...

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. 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 ...

12. SaaS, PaaS, Cloud Computing, On-Demand - what do they all mean?
(Platform as a Service/Catalyst Resources)

Over the past few months,there has been a lot of news stories and articles about hosted services over the internet. The various terms that describes these offerings - SaaS, PaaS, Cloud Computing, On-Demand ...

13. 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 ...

14. 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 ...

15. Banking 2.0 - RIAs and SaaS for Banks and Financial Services - Part I
(Platform as a Service/Catalyst Resources)

Banks are in a unique position to offer their corporate, small and medium business (SMB) customer a range of integrated business services using SaaS and RIAs. Customers may not perceive their bank as ...

16. Welcome to the SaaS blog
(Platform as a Service/Software As A Service Blog)

Welcome to the Software as a Service (SaaS) blog sponsored by Progress Software. Welcome to the Software as a Service (SaaS) blog sponsored by Progress Software.  ...

17. Is your SaaS application a black hole?
(Platform as a Service/Catalyst Resources)

For most on-premise applications, the software is a black hole when it comes to information about user adoption and feature usage. But a SaaS application can continually monitor when and how the software ...

18. 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 ...

19. SproutCore adds to the list of tools for RIAs and SaaS
(Platform as a Service/Catalyst Resources)

RIA are a big deal and arguably the future of application deployment. Indeed, almost all of our enterprise application design and SaaS is deployed using RIA technology such as AJAX (BackBase, YUI, ExtJS, ...

20. Poll: Phase of customer life cycle most difficult to migrate to SaaS
(Platform as a Service/Catalyst Resources)

We have proposed that to be successful, profitable, and scalable, a SaaS must address most aspects of the customer life cycle in software. In some cases though, it is not practical (technically or politically) ...