Wednesday, May 28, 2008Blue SkyBrian Deterling

SaaS Primer

I've been working on building a new Yard/Dock Management/Appointment Scheduling application (hence the lack of blog entries). Our plan is to offer this application as both a traditional in-house hosted app and an externally hosted SaaS model. In that spirit, here are some SaaS articles that I've been reading:

Architecture Strategies for Catching the Long Tail is a great primer on SaaS and the issues you will face when adopting it.

Top Ten Reasons Why On-Demand Services Will Soar in 2008 - the title is pretty self-explanatory.

On Demand Gaining Traction in Supply Chain (PDF) from Aberdeen Research has some good information about the adoption of SaaS in the suppy chain software space.

On-Demand/SaaS Reality discusses SaaS pricing and its adoption in the enterprise.

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