Name: Mark Smith
Posts by Mark Smith:
Who will be the Winners on the SaaS Battlefield?
August 24th, 2010I agree with Andre Yee’s point of view on SaaS (Is SaaS Dead?). Andre makes some great points to refute the conclusions made by Neil McAllister in his post, Is the SaaS experiment finally over? In fact, I would go as far to say that the problems that we are seeing now should be expected as part of the transition from delivering Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) applications to delivering SaaS solutions by traditional ISVs. Andre Yee highlights three points in his post: bad applications, reliability and performance, and shelfware. As he correctly points out, these problems are not endemic to SaaS, as suggested by Neil McAllister, but a function of poor execution by many SaaS vendors. Read the rest of this entry “
ISV Model: Evolution at Play?
July 16th, 2010Broadband and ubiquitous Internet access have fed the growth of the World Wide Web (WWW) and led to the birth and growth of cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS), which in turn have started affecting the traditional Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). ISVs were instrumental in defining and giving momentum to the software market during the 1990’s and 2000’s. Today, however, SaaS is driving the world’s 60 fastest-growing software companies. Existing ISVs are feeling the pressure from pure SaaS start-ups. Calls from the market for SaaS alternatives to their traditional licensed product offerings further add to their woes. What’s an ISV to do? Read the rest of this entry “
10 Factors to Consider When Selecting SaaS Solutions
May 28th, 2010We are now moving from the out of the early adopter stage and into the early majority stage of the Software as a Service (SaaS) technology adoption cycle. An exploding number of organizations are considering SaaS to take advantage of the lower up-front costs, lower total ownership costs, and faster implementation when compared with traditional licensed software. While evaluations of traditionally licensed software by organization is a well understood activity, the relative youth of the SaaS market means many organizations are still developing their evaluation methodologies, while others have suffered through SaaS horror stories. Read the rest of this entry “
