Tips

Enterprising SaaS
If you want to find a market to exploit, examine it from the customer pain-and-dread perspective first. Too often tech companies tend to focus on the feature/benefit side of product creation and not customer experience deficit reduction.
Source: Guy Smith, Silicon Strategies Marketing

SaaS Advice from the Experts
While more industries are taking to the SaaS model, experts warn that offloading your applications does not mean offloading responsibility.
Source: ASPnews.com

Blogs

Open Source vs. SaaS By Treb Ryan, CEO, OpSource Let me be the last to post about "Open Source vs. SaaS". Two excellent posts have been put up recently (O.K. not so recently.) Anshu Sharma's and Dave Rosenberg's. Both are very well written, and I agree with Anshu's arguments. That said, they both are essentially missing one essential point: all applications will be Web applications. SaaS � The Evolution is Now By Lonnie Wills, VP of Global Services, Astadia (a partner of OpSource) A new twist or an old paradigm renamed... Software as a Service, once known as Application Service Providers or ASP's has revolutionized distributed computing. As a prior CEO and CIO of two software companies and now as the VP of Global Services for Astadia, I have been able to watch SaaS evolve and pick up momentum in nearly every vertical market...

News

Adobe Buzzes into the SaaS Fray
Adobe Systems is the latest entrant to the increasingly popular field of software-as-a-service and online applications by virtue of its purchase of a startup firm that's been developing an online word processor that's coincidentally built on Adobe technology.
Source: ASPnews.com

Microsoft Steps Up On SaaS, Launches Hosted Apps for Large Users
Conventional wisdom holds that small companies, not big ones, are embracing SaaS technologies. But with its new Online family of applications, Microsoft is taking direct aim at enterprises.
Source: ComputerWorld

EMC's Acquisition of BDS Signals Change in Storage and SaaS Landscape
With the cat out of the bag it could now be said with conviction the EMC acquisition, and Seagate's recent purchase of EVault, would prove to be the flashpoint for online and outsourced storage coming of age and becoming a primary consideration for businesses.
Source: eChannelLine

Not All VARs to Survive Move to SaaS
Solution providers that want to sell software-as-a-service applications are going to have to make big changes in their business model, from the kinds of expertise they offer their customers to the way they pay their sales representatives. And some VARs aren't going to survive the transition.
Source: eChannelWeb