http://blog.sciodev.com/2009/03/27/saas-all-paas-are-not-created-equal/ Hot Thoughts about SaaS, On-Demand Business and Technology Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:03:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://blog.sciodev.com/2009/03/27/saas-all-paas-are-not-created-equal/comment-page-1/#comment-106 Scott Waldrum Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:56:33 +0000 http://blog.sciodev.com/?p=408#comment-106 I like that you've looked at this from an operational perspective as opposed to a development platform perspective. Having spent time running Product Management but also operations for some SaaS start-ups lately, your list really resonates. Interestingly, the major players in what we seem to be calling the PaaS space these days aren't addressing your list very well. I'm quite certain they'll get there and you see them beginning to dip their toes in the billing space. If you put monitoring and provisioning aside, your list really comes down to subscriber management and billing. There are some really interesting companies that solve these problems that haven't really been considered PaaS players to date. Some have been doing this for some time like <a href="http://www.ipapplications.com" rel="nofollow">IP Applications</a> and Aria while others like <a href="http://www.zuora.com" rel="nofollow">Zuora</a> are startups generating a fair bit of buzz. I think we're going to see a bit of consolidation here as the big PaaS players realize the scope of the operations problem they need to solve to really provide value... I like that you’ve looked at this from an operational perspective as opposed to a development platform perspective. Having spent time running Product Management but also operations for some SaaS start-ups lately, your list really resonates. Interestingly, the major players in what we seem to be calling the PaaS space these days aren’t addressing your list very well. I’m quite certain they’ll get there and you see them beginning to dip their toes in the billing space. If you put monitoring and provisioning aside, your list really comes down to subscriber management and billing. There are some really interesting companies that solve these problems that haven’t really been considered PaaS players to date. Some have been doing this for some time like IP Applications and Aria while others like Zuora are startups generating a fair bit of buzz. I think we’re going to see a bit of consolidation here as the big PaaS players realize the scope of the operations problem they need to solve to really provide value…

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