We did a simple survey in 2011 titled “On the road to SaaS Where are You?. The results were shared free of cost with all the participants. Many of them benefited from knowing where they are viz-a-viz the rest of the market and it helped them plan their roadmap better. Now we are back again in 2012, with a similar survey. But this time ...

According to a poll at Framework Programme Sevent (FP7) group on LinkedIn, Horizon 2020 (http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020) may include a cost model change to cover 100% of all direct costs, but limit the overhead rate to a flat 20%.   From my perspective this is a change for the better: • now some research organizations’ ...

Reading latet posts from Eugenio Pace about hosting LitwareHR - the sample HR application created to demonstrate a proper SaaS Architecture - I realised that for a long time ago my RSS reader contains 5 valuable blogs giving me enough information on the topic : Gianpaolo Carraro Eugenio Pace Fred Chong SaaS Week ZDNET SaaS posts Any good ...

Δεν ξέρω αν είναι νωρίς ... αλλά οι εξαγορές άρχισαν ήδη στο χώρο του Software As A Service. http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2007/corp_031507b.html?CMP=ILC-001 Κάποιοι βλέπουν ότι υπάρχει ''ψητό'' στο χώρο. Και για όσους δεν γνωρίζουν την WebEx: With 2.2 million registered users, WebEx (NASDAQ: WEBX) is the global leader in on-demand ...

Have a look at Fred Chong's post for real world SaaS application architecture videos that Ron Jacobs shooted and posted in in http://www.skyscrapr.net/ the one stop portal for Architects. Fred Chong, together with Gianpaolo Carraro are the core SaaS Microsoft team. ...

I just finished reading (a white paper) about SaaS from Gianpaolo Carraro and Frederick Chong, both architects in Microsoft. SaaS is quite popular these days supporting, supplementing and extending the previous ''king'' of architecture discussions, SOA. The paper introduces quite well the concept of SaaS in terms of Business, Technical, ...