Gianpaolo's blog

On Tuesday, I sat between Steve Lucas and Jeff Nolan on a panel moderated by Phil Wainewright . The topic was SaaS in the enterprise . The discussion was good and I don’t think we disagreed too much. The key takeaways for me were: (a) It is about...

A few days ago, at SaaSCon, I was discussing the importance of Integration in the SaaS consumption architecture. I learned today that, Jesus , a BizTalk MVP, will be presenting at the Microsoft BPI&SOA conference some demos showing BizTalk Server...

Several discussions I had at SaaSCon reinforced my opinion that the value proposition of SaaS for small and medium businesses (SMBs) is quite different than the one for large enterprises. SaaS or nothing For SMBs the proposition is often “SaaS or...

Sometime watching a show that has nothing to do with software architecture could help you understand architectural concepts. It recently happened to me. I usually come home early enough to have dinner with my kids, read them a story and put them to...

Dan shares his impressions of SaaSCon ( here ) and ( here ) has some kind words about our SaaScon session. Dan is a serial entrepreneur I met a few months ago in Boston. These days, he's Director of Products at Digipede Technologies , if you are...

SaaSCon was a lot of fun! I love industry conferences; the divergence of opinion is always very interesting. From total Microsoft believer to absolute Microsoft basher, from SaaS skeptic to SaaS super fan. Large enterprise perspective, SMB perspective...

A couple of weeks ago, I spent some time on the phone with Mike, the principal architect of a small company driving a new SaaS initiative. Based on the discussion we had and the data paper we published, he came up with his own idea for the data layer...

Our efforts on SaaS architecture guidance are growing and we are hiring. There are more aspects we want to provide architecture guidance on, more customers and partners we want to engage with, more discussions with the Microsoft product teams we want...

A couple of weeks ago, Fred and I did an interview discussing our whitepapers and previewing our session at SaaSCon . Below a copy-paste from the web site where the podcast is published. Technology questions to ask your SaaS provider http://www...