Chatting with Sinclair Schuller about making it easier to deploy SaaS applications
Image via CrunchBase I’ve written before about Sinclair Schuller and the work he’s doing at Apprenda. Yesterday, I recorded a podcast to continue some of our earlier conversations in more public form, and this is now available here. Have a listen, and see what you think about the need for intermediaries such as Apprenda to...
Sinclair Shuller attempts to clean up the language of the Cloud
Yesterday’s blog post by Apprenda CEO Sinclair Shuller is an interesting attempt to clarify the hodge-podge of terms that tend to be thrown around almost interchangeably; Cloud, SaaS, PaaS and more. Have a read, and see what you think. I spoke to Sinclair recently, ahead of today’s announcement of their SaaSGrid offering, and there’s plenty...
Understanding SaaS business models in conversation with Adam Gross of Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com [CRM] is often held up as proof that the Software as a Service (SaaS) model works. Ten years old, and with over $1Bn in revenue last year, Marc Benioff‘s company certainly shows that SaaS isn’t just a passing fad. More recently the company has begun to diversify from its heritage as the provider of...
Does SaaSGrid speed the process of delivering SaaS applications?
As mentioned in my previous post, I recently spoke with Apprenda CEO Sinclair Schuller ahead of this week’s announcement of SaaSGrid. The formal release is perhaps deliberately ironic; “In an industry flooded with buzzwords and numerous companies jumping on the platform bandwagon, Apprenda cuts through the SaaS platform clutter and draws a bold line with...
‘Reinventing the Wheel’ becomes world’s only growth industry ?
I am increasingly concerned by the extent to which the tech sector's current and future behemoths squander finite effort on reinventing 'context' at the expense of excelling in delivery of their 'core' proposition. The post explores some of the reasons for this reinvention of wheels, and asks whether previously sound reasoning is increasingly becoming a...
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