Architecture, Data and Intelligence

Couple of posts from the Smart 421 people on usage-based car insurance. Telematics and retail insurance (aka “PAYD”) Usage based car insuran...

One of the critical success factors of SaaS is the paradox of confidence. As I've pointed out here before, SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) ...

A lot of business services are difficult to value. Take HR for example. During an economic crisis, HR performs some pretty unpopular service...

What lies in store? Complex Event Processing (CEP) guru David Luckham asks What are your predictions for 2009? What challenges? Prediction i...

Someone who hides behind the sobriquet "Mr Web Service" has posted an interesting idea: that software-as-a-service permits small f...

During the "troubles" in Northern Ireland, the British Army operated a laundry - an apparently innocent laundry with some addition...

In difficult economic times, the most important business measure for many firms is not profit or revenue growth or cost-saving but cashflow....

An interesting debate on SaaS and Control Cloudy Future for the Enterprise and most likely for ISVs too (Gianpaolo Carraro, Microsoft) ...

In a recent post, Dave Linthicum talked about the Pay As You Go Challenge , and describes the benefits of Pay-As-You-Go in terms of shifting...

Multi-tenancy basically means that the service provider is supporting several customers with the same resources. (There is some ambiguity ab...

One of the problems with user-based pricing for services is that it generally relies on an inflexible notion of the user. In some cases, use...

Just over a year ago, fed up with the over-use of the Lego brick metaphor, my colleague David Sprott proposed the laundry model of SOA ( Exp...

Ray Ozzie doesn't do many interviews, so lots of people are finding interesting snippets from his interview with Om Malik last week [ Gi...

This week I visited Microsoft campus in Reading, to hear some presentations on their Software-and-Service (S+S) strategy, and have a chat wi...

Webex (along with Unyte and a few others) provides a facility for meeting over the internet. Since Cisco acquired Webex, it has saved nearly...

It seems everything can be packaged as a service these days. Here are a few examples. Application-as-a-Service Eltima Network Data-as-a-Serv...

Last month I riffed with Gianpaolo Carraro about Service Escrow . A few days later, a company called Iron Mountain launched an SaaS escrow s...

A small SaaS company bites the dust , reports Gianpaolo Carraro, Director of SaaS Architecture at Microsoft. Obviously this is not just ...

Fred Chong of Microsoft has just posted something on his blog Defining the Software-as-a-Service Continuum . He defines what he calls "...

Gianpaolo Carraro (Microsoft) has produced an interesting diagram laying out the benefits of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to various actors...