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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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Tag Archives: isv
Revealed: The confidence trick at the heart of cloud computing
Do ISVs looking at PaaS know the confidence trick at the heart of cloud computing? Banking relies on a similar confidence trick. We ignore it, however, as banking is so useful. Cloud computing is equally important to ISVs building SaaS … Continue reading
Profitable SaaS: Don’t migrate on-premise apps to managed-hosting
Managed hosting seems a good way to migrate on-premise applications to SaaS. Looking closer, however, the chances of making any money that way are slim to non-existent. Oh, and forget about do-it-yourself for PaaS. In part one of this article … Continue reading
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Tagged bob-warfield, diy, facebook, isv, managed-hosting, migration, operations, paas, phil-wainewright, saas, salesforce.com, smoothspan, sun
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Can’t tell PaaS vendors apart? Use this 5-layer model to classify them
Knowing the best cake to pick is difficult when they all look the same. If you look more carefully you spot the differences. ISVs moving to SaaS have difficulty telling apart the different PaaS approaches. Phil Wainewright’s five-layer market model … Continue reading
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Tagged cloud-application-builder, cloud-computing, cloud-ide, diy, isv, managed-hosting, paas, phil-wainewright, saas
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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
