Posts with keyword: saas

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Products as Avatars for a Service

Thu Dec 1 10:28:00 2011

Products are becoming mere physical manifestations of the services behind them. This is an important step in creating a world of social products that cooperate on your behalf.
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Success Factors for Saas Delivery

Fri Jul 11 08:23:00 2008

I'm at the Utah Technology Council's CTO P2P forum this morning. Nate Bowler, a former collegue at Excite@Home and CTO of @Task is speaking about SaaS, software as a service. Nate says that his number one take-away from this talk is: Pick a market that is underserved or could benefit from the improved delivery model of a SaaS platform and serve it in a non-trivial manner. Emphasis on "non-trivial." Often companies dumb down their SaaS offering. Nate stresses the importance of using the same technology stack for on-premise and on-demand options. In order to deliver SaaS, you have to
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SaaS Lessons Learned

Mon Feb 6 16:07:00 2006

I'm at the Enterprise Software Summit in Sundance this afternoon (I'm speaking tomorrow). Greg Gianforte, from Right Now, is speaking about things they've learned about supporting software as a service (SaaS). Deployment choice - on premise and hosted. Large enterprises, particularly financial and government, need an on premise solution. You need a software architecture that supports both. Installations often go to a hosted solution, hosted solutions rarely move to on premise installations. Software has to be architected from the start with multi-tenancy in mind. "On demand" does not equal "pay as you go" Separate the way to pay from
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