After a six and a half year career at Microsoft, first as a principal consultant in Microsoft Consulting Services and later as Architect and Technical Lead in the EMEA Microsoft Innovation Centre (MIC) in Denmark, it is time fo me to move on. Lately...

Sitecore's solutions architect has posted a series of excellent articles on the joint project we did. Have a look at Lars's view on his blog on what it takes for an ISV to move in to SaaS what an ISV expects from a SaaS Hosting Platform (SHP...

Scenario #4: Order fulfillment and order management in the store front and provisioning for new application tenants (subscribe) When & who? Once there’s something in the catalog to sell, the store front companies expose public facing order fulfillment...

Scenario #3: Managing the re-sellers hosting plans in the store front to include software items from the new application When & who? There may be multiple store fronts offering the same underlying software items for sale in different packages and...

Scenario #1: Defining the platform run-time instances and its capabilities Why? Describing and documenting a platform is always a good thing to do, but by storing it in a machine readable format opens up a new set of opportunities such as automation...

Spring is here and the sun is shining. As I live close to the beautiful Roskilde Fjord, I took a walk by the water front. I figured catching some rays wouldn’t be that harmful and maybe, just maybe, my eyes would revert to an oval shape again after a...

Multiple store fronts Since the ISV may chose to sell directly and/or through a hoster and/or an aggregator, we introduced the term “store front”. The store front is one or more places from which a potential application tenant can subscribe to the...

In-house vs. external hosting An ISV that wish to start offering an application throug a SaaS delivery model could choose to move down the stack and host the application in-house (sometimes referred to as “self-host”), requiring the ISV learn how efficiently...

During the last year I have worked with many ISVs from all over Europe & Middle East helping them to (re)architect their solutions for a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model. One thing stood out very clear. There’s a gap that needs to be...

This week I had the pleasure to give a keynote on SaaS at the Microsoft Europe Partner Senior Architect Forum. The session abstract was -"Software vendors are now making the transition from an on-premise installation delivery model to a software-as...