Category: SaaS

Dan Huby, of Montala, one of the original developers of the ResourceSpace open source digital asset management system, has contributed a feature article for DAM News: External DAM Hosting – The Questions You Should Be Asking.  The article discusses the potential risks with outsourced hosting in the form …

David Strom writing on readwriteweb.com has written an article: “The True Cost of SaaS Apps Isn’t About the Browser“.  I’m not sure about the title which I take to mean a reference to the fact that Cloud apps are often highly scalable for a very low marginal cost …

In this GetApp.com blog entry, the authors discuss the need for SaaS vendors and buyers to carefully evaluate the available API options of the solution they produce or use:

“There are many reasons why clients want APIs and many reasons why vendors should offer them. Whether it’s for …

In this article by Larry Dignan on the ZDNet blog, he analyses some practices by vendors that increasingly look like a return to the standard software licence and maintenance deals that enterprise software vendors are more associated with.  In particular he notes multi-year lock-ins are often pushed by SaaS …