Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

Browse by Tags

I'm moving on...

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 I Read More...
Posted Friday, March 30, 2007 10:43 AM by mbaladi.net | 1 Comments
Filed under: , , , ,

SHP from the ISV perspective

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) how Federation Read More...
Posted Monday, March 26, 2007 7:49 PM by mbaladi.net | 1 Comments
Filed under:

SHP #7: Let’s go shopping…

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 Read More...
Posted Friday, March 23, 2007 12:01 PM by mbaladi.net | 1 Comments
Filed under:

SHP #6: Software + Services for sale!

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 Read More...
Posted Friday, March 23, 2007 11:56 AM by mbaladi.net | 1 Comments
Filed under:

SHP #5: The first two scenarios – the a basic meta-data “goo” (define, map & persist)

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 of Read More...
Posted Friday, March 16, 2007 11:38 AM by mbaladi.net | 3 Comments
Filed under:

Attachment(s): Scenario1.jpg

SHP #4: Just a side note before we get serious again…

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 Read More...
Posted Friday, March 16, 2007 10:26 AM by mbaladi.net | 0 Comments
Filed under:

Attachment(s): mic during snowstorm.jpg

SHP #3: SaaS Hosting Platform overview

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 application. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2007 11:07 PM by mbaladi.net | 1 Comments
Filed under:

Attachment(s): Stack.jpg

SHP #2: In-house vs. external hosting (the 80,000*2 vs. 1*160,000 quiz)

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 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2007 10:36 PM by mbaladi.net | 1 Comments
Filed under:

SHP #1: Designed for Hosting and the SaaS Hosting Platform

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 bridged Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2007 10:21 PM by mbaladi.net | 2 Comments
Filed under:

Exec keynote on Saas at the Microsoft Europe Partner Senior Architect Forum

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 13, 2007 3:52 PM by mbaladi.net | 0 Comments
Filed under:

Attachment(s): Michel Baladi exec keynote on SaaS at MS Europe Architect Forum 2007.zip

I am no longer an architect!

Something that really gets to me in the software business is the constant stream of meaningless buzwords, three-letter-acronyms (TLA's) and completely overloaded terms. I have been calling my self "solutions architect" or "architect advisor", because Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 05, 2006 9:35 AM by mbaladi.net | 1 Comments
Filed under:

Software as a service for architects

This week I had the pleasure to be at the Swiss Web Summit 06 and give a talk on Software as a Service for a mix of 200+ architects / developers. The session gave an introduction to what SaaS is, why threre is a renewed interest in building and using Read More...
Posted Friday, June 30, 2006 1:06 PM by mbaladi.net | 0 Comments
Filed under:

Security Guidance is brought up to date through Sustained Engineering Program

The Microsoft Solutions for Security and Compliance (MSSC) team has released updates to five previously released guides, including the Microsoft Identity and Access Management Series that I co-authored. The guides that have been brought up to date are: Read More...
Posted Friday, June 30, 2006 12:57 PM by mbaladi.net | 0 Comments
Filed under:

SaaS guidance and seminars

I recently found out that two of my colleagues from the Microsoft’s Architecture Strategy Team in Redmond, Gianpaolo and Fred , are working on similar SaaS guidance that I planned for Europe, Middle East and Africa . I will pitch in with content to the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 02, 2006 5:35 AM by mbaladi.net | 0 Comments
Filed under:

So Software as a Service is the next big thing – again?

Today there’s a lot of “buz” around Software as a Service – SaaS. But what is it? Is it really going to happen this time? Simply put, the current most common definition of SaaS is “Software deployed as a hosted service and accessed over the Internet”. Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 22, 2006 8:47 AM by mbaladi.net | 2 Comments
Filed under:
More Posts Next page »
 
Page view tracker