Tag: SaaS

One of the questions that I get asked a lot is “What are the mistakes that others have made when moving to Software as a Service (SaaS)?”  I think that software vendors are always looking to learn from others mistakes...

Looking at things from the perspective of how software is evaluated and brought into the enterprise, it's no wonder cloud computing is dramatically changing the landscape. Combine that with the trend of software vendors looking to compliance to shore up revenues, and customers pushing back to...

What exactly is cloud computing? Lately, this is one of the most often repeated question in any discussion about the Cloud. And the answer depends on who you ask! (Personally, I think that if there are not at least three different popular definitions of a new technology, then the technology is...

The SaaS approach to deploying software solutions is emerging and evolving. As customers continue to expand their acceptance of SaaS, as existing software vendors seek to take advantage of this model and as more new SaaS vendors emerge, it...

Most of the time, when we think of Software as a Service (SaaS), we focus on the first “S”, or the one that addresses the Software side of things.  But I think that the second “S” or the one that is about Service is the one that needs to be thought of a little more, as I believe it...

I recently read Daryl Plummer’s (Gartner Group) blog and I have to agree, but also disagree with what he said.  I agree that it is not an easy thing to transition from being a...

Been thinking a lot about Software-as-a-Service (or SaaS) this week, and as it turns out, so have a few...

I read a blog posting from the other day by a frustrated software as a service (SaaS) vendor venting that:

• They need rapid release cycles... but,
• They can't find all issues in their pre-production...