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SaaS: Driver Behind Software Valuations

By Dick Weisinger

Mike Braun, former IBMer and now CEO of Intacct, said in a Wall Street Journal interview, that SaaS-modeled companies are exceeding customer expectations. It’s cheaper than on-premise solutions and faster to get up and running. Upgrades are frequent and painless.…

SOA: Shift to a Business-Centric Focus

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprises are beginning to take steps away from SOA planning and prototyping and are now deploying SOA technology. IBM found in their Impact 2008 survey of 300 enterprises that SOA deployments are increasing. About half of the companies surveyed said…

SaaS: How Many Ways to Achieve Multi-Tenancy ?

By Dick Weisinger

SaaS vendors are either multi-tenanted, or they’re not, right? Some would even go so far to argue that if you aren’t running a multi-tenanted operation that you shouldn’t even be considered as a SaaS vendor. But it turns out that…

SaaS: Lack of Ability to Integrate — Show-Stopper?

By Dick Weisinger

There’s a lot to like about the SaaS model — easy upgradability, reliability, affordability, and ease of use. But what about the ability to integrate a SaaS application with something else, either another SaaS app or a traditional on-premise one?…

PaaS: Software Vendors' Ticket to On-Demand

By Dick Weisinger

Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a metered on-demand infrastructure designed to host on-demand applications. “The PaaS model makes all of the facilities required to support the end-to-end life cycle of building and delivering web applications and services entirely available…