Imagine managing a large apartment complex that is occupied by digital residents rather than real ones. They all share the same infrastructure, from the plumbing (the network) to the elevator (the ...

Microsoft's director for SaaS architecture, Gianpaolo Carraro, wasn't talking miracles in his April SaaScon 2007 presentation, "Anatomy of a SaaS Application." "We've heard again from many vendors out ...

For developers who are interested in Microsoft’s plans for software as a service (SaaS), the company has published a sample application illustrating how it’s done. Microsoft late last week posted the ...

A SaaS app development team typically includes a product owner, UI/UX designers, frontend and backend developers, DevOps engineers, and QA testers (depending on the scope, it might be enough to have ...

Explaining the ongoing evolution from client-server to cloud-native, source of much confusion and misdirection when comparing SaaS offerings There are many definitions of software as a service (SaaS).

While the basic concept of “software-as-a-service” has been around for decades, I think that most people would credit Marc Benioff as the driving force behind mainstream adoption. With the ...

Companies are moving their on-premise software applications to the cloud and embracing the software as a service (SaaS) licensing and delivery model, hoping to reap its numerous benefits, which ...

In a guest post here in January, Matt McAdams critiqued Salesforce.com's database-as-a-service offering, Database.com, which I had previously lauded. McAdams, who is CEO of PaaS vendor TrackVia, ...

It looks as if the company is about to start providing some answers. CEO Larry Ellison will outline Oracle's SaaS plans and provide an update on the Fusion applications project in his keynote ...

Incumbent enterprise application vendors look out: research conversations with IT buyers suggests the pace of SaaS adoption is set to accelerate dramatically over the next few years, rising beyond 50 ...