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Best Practices & Tips

How to Off-load the Burden of PCI Compliance (pdf)
PCI compliance can be expensive and time consuming for SaaS providers. Discover how to off-load the work and be responsible fully for just two of the 12 PCI requirement areas. Source: OpSource

Provisioning, Billing and Nurturing Users of On-Demand Solutions (pdf)
One of the key attractions of SaaS solutions is their ease of deployment and use from the user perspective. However, this on-boarding process is fraught with complications and pitfalls that can lead to service delivery problems and customer dissatisfaction. Source: THINKstrategies

Financial Implications of the SaaS Business Model
The SaaS model poses significant business challenges – not the least of which is cash-flow. Read about a new approach to debt financing for SaaS companies. Source: SaaS Capital, an OpSource partner

SaaS is a Business Model
SaaS is the latest approach to an old problem, and the pattern of hype and challenges holds true again. Read the appeal of SaaS as a business model and how streaming can overcome some of those challenges. Source: AppStream, an OpSource partner

Trends & Analysis

ISVs are from Mars, and Hosters are from Venus
Service delivery is a broad discipline that amalgamates knowledge and best practices from technical areas, such as networking, security, instrumentations and monitoring, operating systems, business processes, and system automation. Understand the complexities of application service delivery and the business services SaaS hosters could provide. Source: MSDN Architecture Center

SaaS: 10 Things You Should Know
Software as a service is no longer a fringe service model. Here are some facts about SaaS as it's being implemented today. Watch the slides. Source: eWEEK

Blogs

Hard to Stay Mad at Google By Treb Ryan at OpSource As many who know me, know that I have not been a big fan of Google. I love the desktop search (or I did until I got a Mac with Spotlight) but am not a big fan of their corporate culture. Web Collaboration: Cisco and Adobe Duke It Out By Phil Wainewright at ZDNet A fascinating juxtaposition of keynotes from Cisco and Adobe have kicked off proceedings today at the SIIA On Demand Summit in San Jose. These two companies’ SaaS strategies are going to have a huge influence.... What Makes a Great SaaS Startup? By Louis Columbus at CRM Buyer What remains to be seen from the SaaS gold rush going on for VC funding today is which start-ups will be able to set a strong enough set of business processes and supporting systems in place, hiring the right talent....

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