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Monday, October 30, 2006 5:30 PM

SaaS: An Enterprise Perspective

It took a bit longer than expected... but we have finally released our 3rd SaaS whitepaper . The first two articles, which can be found by clicking here , focused on developing SaaS applications. This time, we turned the question around and look at SaaS
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006 11:14 PM

SaaS, bad parents and not invented here syndrome

A few days ago I blogged about the analogy between SaaS providers and babysitters. Sinclair left a comment pushing the analogy further. … what about bad parents … any babysitter more capable at child-raising than the parents may suffice… he wrote. While
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Saturday, October 14, 2006 6:35 PM

What have babysitters to do with SaaS?

Yesterday I was talking to a couple of enterprise customers, one of them happen to be from Jamaica. He was telling me that one of the big barrier of SaaS adoption there is trust or more precisely lack thereof. Many enterprises are not ready to trust a
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Saturday, October 07, 2006 1:18 AM

TechEd US SaaS Presentation Available Online

I just found out that my TechEd US (June 2006) presentation is available online here . (not sure how long it will be up there) Note that it was one of the very first times I presented our SaaS work, so things have changed a little bit since. This said,
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Tuesday, October 03, 2006 11:44 PM

Understanding SaaS Architecture Powerpoint Presentation

For those interested, here is the link to our SaaSCon Understanding SaaS Archtiecture presentation. As usual feedback welcome.
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Tuesday, October 03, 2006 11:14 PM

The "meringue effect" or even better, eating a "wind gebaeck"

[not a SaaS post, so if you read this blog exclusively for the SaaS guidance, you can safely skip it :)] Today I was discussing with Andreas about evangelism, prescriptive guidance and presentations at events in general and the conversation ended up touching
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Sunday, October 01, 2006 11:35 PM

SaaS Architectures

A few months ago (wow... time flies) I blogged ( here ) about the SaaS ecosystem, briefly describing the different actors (ISVs, Enterprises, Hosters...), their main interests and challenges with regards to SaaS. Based on that ecosystem, last week at
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