A competitive must for European SaaS ISVs
ISVs face new challenges building SaaS solutions, including new technologies, business models and much lower barriers to entry for new competitors. These all combine to make life a lot more complicated for ISVs; and a lot more risky as well.
Development and deployment technology are no longer the competitive differentiators they were for on-premise. ISVs can now easily buy both of these as utility services for SaaS.
Platform as a Service news for European ISVs
PaaS finally gives ISVs the opportunity to focus on creating unique business features to astound and delight their customers.
This is a big change for ISVs who have traditionally mistrusted all in one solutions. Even so, PaaS is a strategic change in how successful SaaS ISVs will build and deploy solutions for their niche.
The paasTalk blog delivers independent news and views on this important change in the ISV business model, with an emphasis on the specific challenges that face European ISVs moving to PaaS.
A veteran of the European development tools market
I have been in the software industry for 28 years, of which 12 have been in the UK, 2 in France and 14 years here in Germany.
I have specialised in application development tools since my earliest days as an application developer and consultant.
Since 1988 I have held senior management positions with Europe-wide responsibility for tool ISVs.
I founded ISVfocus.com Limited in 2007 to work with European independent software vendors (ISVs) planning to move to SaaS. ISVfocus.com is 20 minutes from Düsseldorf airport in Germany; ideally placed to serve ISVs throughout Europe. However, I last had a corporate office 10 years ago, so I am comfortable with virtual teams…
I write the paasTalk blog and bring a European view to the emerging Platform as a Service market
Please see Andrew-Biss.com for more details on each of the roles I have had over the years. You can also find details of my career on LinkedIn:
