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Hi, I'm Andrew Biss and welcome to paasTalk, a blog I launched in March 2008 to deliver the latest news and views on Platform as a Service for ISVs.
I've now retired this blog, but left it up as someone might find it useful.
ISV Marketing blog
If you're in the software business you might like ISV Marketing, a blog I launched in August 2010 to deliver practical marketing tips for ISVs. Please come on over and take a look around. Thanks!
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SaaS ISVs: Know your customers or risk going to jail
Many countries have introduced strict “Know Your Customer” laws. The goal is to fight money laundering, identity fraud and to disrupt terrorist financing. SaaS ISVs are now service providers and so will increasingly have to work within these laws. ISVs … Continue reading
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Tagged china, eu, fact, financing, identity-theft, isv, jurisdiction, laundering, law, ofac, paas, saas, uk, us
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Survey reveals 2,548 German ISVs asleep at the (SaaS) wheel!
A recent survey of small to medium-sized German ISVs revealed half have no plans to move to SaaS. Are these ISVs asleep at the (SaaS) wheel, or are they right to ignore SaaS? Here in Germany you do not fall … Continue reading
Is SaaS really Spying-as-a-Service?
Companies must trust an ISV to use their SaaS solution. Many customers have a real fear of losing control as their data moves into the cloud. The revelation the CIA was spying on SWIFT does not help; nor does the … Continue reading
Is jetting to Cuba this summer a bad idea for European SaaS ISVs?
Because PaaS applications and data are “in the cloud” it should not matter where they are. In the real world of laws, borders and trade disputes, however, location still matters. A recent example shows what can go wrong when European … Continue reading
Might Amazon EC2 cloud platform squeeze the profits from SaaS apps?
You need to build a reliable SaaS application from a portfolio of unreliable platform services; the price of which you cannot control. To survive you must ensure you do not lock your application workload into a single utility provider. A … Continue reading
