Archives for February, 2009

SaaS & PaaS: What is the Value?


There has been a lot said about the “maturity levels” of SaaS – so much in fact that the concept is now meaningless. Are we looking at it from the customer’s point of view? The ISVs business side? or their development side? or are we thinking like a supplier to the ISV? A hosting, platform or component provider to SaaS ISVs? Without some context – the whole discussion is an exercise in “analyst-speak” to put it kindly.

SaaS Metrics – SaaSoNomics 101


Late last week there was a lot of buzz around the announcement that the president and chief executive at Salesforce, Steve Cakebread and two of his top sales executives had left the company. It has generated blog entries with provocative titles (Is the Bloom Off the SaaS Rose? by Jeff Kaplan) and several sober assessments about the general effect the down economy is having on IT spending