SaaS has gained enormous momentum in the recent years. Almost all software vendors are considering SaaS in their Software roadmap – either a transition strategy or a hybrid strategy by adding a new product line to their existing suite of software products. Market trends also promise SaaS to be the ...

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In the 1990s, two powerful trends emerged that changed the way software is built today: Open source software (OSS) and IT outsourcing (ITO). As Linux served as the torchbearer for OSS, and the Y2K threat resulted in mainstream adoption of ITO, both models have grown significantly in the past decade. Although ...

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Today, almost all traditional Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) are hard pressed to have a SaaS strategy in their Product roadmap. This is essentially to protect themselves from pure-play SaaS players stealing their market share. However, Software “Product” vendors are confused and unsure ...

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Disclosure: Though I am in to marketing now, I have done 10+ yrs in software development and I am NOT writing this post as a marketer. Visit any tech blog and I am reasonably sure you will see something about multi-tenancy (MT). In my humble opinion, it is an architectural style to serve multiple tenants ...

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Aspire Systems hosted a webinar “Managing the Security Threat in SaaS: Essential How-to’s” recently, featuring Alexey Lef, Chief Technical Architect of SciQuest and Jothi Rengarajan, Senior Technical Architect of Aspire Systems. There was a good response from Technology heads and Product ...

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Despite SaaS helping enterprises survive the economic downturn, uncertainties around security issues still seem to hamper SaaS adoption. Software Providers are repeatedly being asked questions like - - What is your Security policy? How secure is my data? Who can access my data in your company? - How ...

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Though SaaS is being increasingly adopted and even considered, by some, as a savior model in this economy (due to the zero upfront CAPEX for buyers), the question still remains if SaaS is a profitable model for solution providers. Regardless of the longer sales cycles, is the on-premise solution providing ...

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In the previous digest, we talked about how Open source and SaaS leverage each other’s strengths and a possible merger of the two. Open source being a development and licensing model can be used to build a delivery model like SaaS, while on the other hand applications built using ...

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