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Welcome to the April edition of the Scio SaaS Newsletter, a practical and informative guide to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and On-Demand Business Best Practices, incorporating insights gathered from our experience building SaaS solutions for clients and along with industry highlights from leading practitioners and analysts in the industry.
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Haut Tec: SaaS Insights from Scio Consulting
We noticed a lot of chatter across the net on the idea that cloud- based hosting makes single-tenancy workable strategy for SaaS products. To get to the point of our article - it really isn't true. It may be a worthwhile, short term tactic but it is not supportable as a long term approach. Because of the way "memes" work - several conversations have started now around the subject leading off with a great article by Bob Warfield on his SmoothSpan Blog. In fact, we'll be talking about this subject with Jon Hansen on his PI Window on Business Show April 30th on Blogtalkradio. Put it in your calendar and join us to hear more!...
This month we had the pleasure of presenting two webinars with our partners on the key technical considerations for developers of SaaS applications. You can find an archived copy of the Apprenda webinar and the OpSource webinar online if you didn’t get a chance to join us. Among the many questions we received – the value of platforms was among the most asked. We have addressed this question in a general way previously but we asked the question from an operational point of view in our most recent article on PaaS. See if it answers some questions you didn’t consider…
Another area that continues to drive questions is the area of market and features in SaaS applications. One of the biggest opportunities in a SaaS application is the opening of a “second and third tier” market for your application but it remains one of the least understood. Take a few minutes to follow this four part series into this critical area and evaluate where you stand…
Best of SaaS: Industry Insights We Read
If you are running or expect to be running a SaaS business and have not been following Joel York, this excellent series on sales for SaaS should give you a good idea of why you should. You can find the first, second and third articles in the series on his site...
Sinclair runs the numbers and shows the value of platforms that fully address the needs of SaaS operations. As the CEO of Apprenda, he is admittedly biased but his analysis stands on its own. Do the numbers and see what it could mean for your SaaS application…
Developments in “Cloud Computing” are interesting to us because broadly SaaS applications can be said to exist “in the cloud” and we use cloud-based infrastructure and services. One of the biggest areas of concern for new adopters of cloud computing has been interoperability and vendors in the field are well aware of the issues. The recent release of the “Cloud Manifesto” may have happened outside your radar, but Cloud Ave is a great place to get caught up on all things “cloud”…
Best Regards,
Jeremy Beck
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Agility in On-Demand Product Development
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Events on the Horizon
Motivate SaaS Sales Teams and Accelerate Revenue Confirmation,
April 22 2009, 9 am PDT – Free Webinar from OpSource – Read More…
Enterprise Cloud Summit,
May 18-19, 2009 in Las Vegas from INTEROP – Read More...
Softletter’s SaaS University
in Chicago, June 30 – July 2 2009 – Read More…
Some Blogs We’re Reading
Agile PM Blog
Cloud Ave
Chaotic Flow
Pricing Blog
Thinking Out Cloud
SaaSBlogs
Scio Application Services
SaaS Strategy Consulting
SaaS Product Design
SaaS Technical Assessments
SaaS Application Development
SaaS Application Support
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