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Monday, June 25, 2007 8:52 AM

Hosting LitwareHR on a Service Delivery Platform - Part V - Strategies for capacity management and planning

In the article talking about SLAs I mentioned two strategies Northwind hosting can use to manage performance and scalability of the hosted application: Adding new servers to host web services, with a front load balancer Doing "database load balancing"
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007 10:57 PM

Hosting LitwareHR on a Service Delivery Platform - Part IV - Service Level Agreements

Part III of this series of articles introduced a common design pattern (using an interceptor) to provide value added services such as billing and metering. The interceptor works at the operation level, and uses both information provided by the ISV (Litware)
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Sunday, June 10, 2007 9:47 PM

Hosting LitwareHR on a Service Delivery Platform - Part III - Billing, Metering

Billing is obviously a very important concern, after all Litware has to get paid! As described in Part I, Litware is looking at two models for Billing: • Subscription based: (For example: $X/tenant/month up to 5 seats/tenant + $Y/month for additional
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Friday, June 08, 2007 1:29 PM

Hosting LitwareHR on a Service Delivery Platform - Part II - On-Boarding

On-Boarding is the process of bringing the application to the operation. It's everything that needs to happen for hand-off of the app from the ISV to the hoster. In the scenario described in the previous post , I mentioned that Northwind requires ISV
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Thursday, June 07, 2007 5:28 PM

Hosting LitwareHR on a Service Delivery Platform - A case study - Part I (The Scenario)

In its current version, LitwareHR is focused very much on the challenges an ISV faces while building a SaaS delivered app: multi-tenancy, configurability, etc. In the last few weeks I've been working on exploring the implications of hosting LitwareHR
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