SaaS - A spectrum of choices
Eric and I are now full steam ahead in preparation for our workshop on Monday (although Sunday night is looking like "one of those nights!" already). Anyway, we were chatting over our experiences earlier and I think we hit on a little nugget... the question is... are we right?
So... [tangent - all Microsoft Corp staff start one in four sentences with the word "So" for some reason and it has started to catch on over here a bit. If I start saying things are "super awesome" - please come by and whack me over the head with a wet lettuce!]... anyway...
So... if we have a spectrum of choices between fully on-premise solutions and fully on-demand (or SaaS) solutions, do we see organisations moving between them over time? It seems to me that the advantages of getting set up cheaply and quickly have huge benefits in the short-medium-term but as other issues such as tight integration with other systems takes priority there will be a desire to bring those outsourced systems in-house. So... (here I go again - sorry!)... are those ISV's that already have successful on-premise solutions in a better position for future growth than those building a simple SaaS solution? I guess it depends on the size of the market, ability to configure the application, integration points across the firewall, etc. All thoughts welcome before Sunday night please J
