Comments on: SaaS: Towards an Agile Business Architecture http://blog.sciodev.com/2009/06/11/saas-towards-an-agile-business-architecture/ Hot Thoughts about SaaS, On-Demand Business and Technology Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:58:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Peter http://blog.sciodev.com/2009/06/11/saas-towards-an-agile-business-architecture/comment-page-1/#comment-211 Peter Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:31:36 +0000 http://blog.sciodev.com/?p=476#comment-211 Well thought out and very relevant to our fledgling SaaS business. When we started a SaaS approach we really new nothing about it but as the past 12 months have gone by the realisation for us is the importance of integration of functionality across the cloud. In effect utilising api's to improve the effectiveness of SaaS application use. Well thought out and very relevant to our fledgling SaaS business. When we started a SaaS approach we really new nothing about it but as the past 12 months have gone by the realisation for us is the importance of integration of functionality across the cloud. In effect utilising api’s to improve the effectiveness of SaaS application use.

]]> By: Steve Reeves http://blog.sciodev.com/2009/06/11/saas-towards-an-agile-business-architecture/comment-page-1/#comment-177 Steve Reeves Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:21:03 +0000 http://blog.sciodev.com/?p=476#comment-177 Michael I love the graphics, and couldn't agree with you more. The SaaS model started out as a low cost development/distribution strategy, but it opened the door to a new breed of software business. Most of these are steeped in Agile and using new technologies e.g. Ruby on Rails to be much faster to market and just keep improving without interrupting service. The point of competition has moved from price (because most new apps have a free option) to adoption. The only way to ensure adoption at low cost is providing "capability" to do what the user wants without "complexity" that gets in the way. We saw this coming three years ago and everything we've done since has been targeted at enabling our users to be "Agile". Up until now this has been a tough concept to get across to users but thats changing now. I firmly believe the old model of software design, development, distribution and maintenance is past its sell by date. Michael

I love the graphics, and couldn’t agree with you more.

The SaaS model started out as a low cost development/distribution strategy, but it opened the door to a new breed of software business. Most of these are steeped in Agile and using new technologies e.g. Ruby on Rails to be much faster to market and just keep improving without interrupting service.

The point of competition has moved from price (because most new apps have a free option) to adoption.

The only way to ensure adoption at low cost is providing “capability” to do what the user wants without “complexity” that gets in the way.

We saw this coming three years ago and everything we’ve done since has been targeted at enabling our users to be “Agile”.

Up until now this has been a tough concept to get across to users but thats changing now.

I firmly believe the old model of software design, development, distribution and maintenance is past its sell by date.

]]> By: Curtis Simmons http://blog.sciodev.com/2009/06/11/saas-towards-an-agile-business-architecture/comment-page-1/#comment-174 Curtis Simmons Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:17:58 +0000 http://blog.sciodev.com/?p=476#comment-174 Great post, very well said. I think this cleanly summarizes why we do what we do at our company, Fellowship Technologies (www.FellowshipTech.com) From our multi-tenant architecture, agile development processes, and that a large portion of our company is focused solely on improving customer effectiveness and the customer experience, I think it has served us well through the recession and positioned us well for the future. Curtis Simmons EVP, Customer Effectiveness Fellowship Technologies Great post, very well said. I think this cleanly summarizes why we do what we do at our company, Fellowship Technologies (www.FellowshipTech.com) From our multi-tenant architecture, agile development processes, and that a large portion of our company is focused solely on improving customer effectiveness and the customer experience, I think it has served us well through the recession and positioned us well for the future.

Curtis Simmons
EVP, Customer Effectiveness
Fellowship Technologies

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