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-a-service (SaaS) delivery model. This transition has a significant impact on the software vendor’s business model, solutions architecture as well as operational architecture/platform. In addition it also has an effect on re-sellers and solution integrators. In this session, Michel Baladi, will present how Microsoft views the SaaS ecosystem and then drill down into how each of the above areas are affected with a strong emphasis on the solution architecture and delivery architecture/platform. Michel Baladi is an architect and the technical lead of the Microsoft Innovation Centre in Copenhagen and for the past year he has been one of the driving forces behind producing architectural guidance for SaaS software vendors and hosting providers."

The slides are attached. The intro slides is only one sec per slide just to mention what type of SaaS customers I have worked with in the Innovation Centre as part of the SaaS incubation program (solutions and flags are re-ordered to protect the innocent ;-).