Will SaaS be a Success ?

Software as a Service (SaaS) is a new paradigm in software delivery model
where in the software is hosted as a service in pay-per-use (on demand) mode.

Who will get benefited out of this? enterprises ? or normal users?

It’s for both. For enterprises they can reduce their IT infrastructure cost and can focus on their core business. They don’t need their software systems installed and maintained on premise.

And for users they need not buy a full software license. They need to only pay for their usage.

Interesting!! But do you think that this hosting model will cater to all the software which
is in use today?

Well, at this moment no.

But there are a few players trying to create a market in this area as follows

Salesforce.com - On demand CRM and a platform to develop applications on it

Cordys - BPM on demand with its The Process Factory Initiative.

Google
Google Apps -A suite of tools to make a website for a domain with
Google Docs, Google Spreadsheet, Calendar, Gmail, and Startpage all provisioned from Google’s Global infrastructure
Google Apps Engine – An application hosting platform on a highly scalable Architecture with Google Big Table as datastore

Amazon
EC2 – Elastic Compute Cloud, Computing power on the web by
Virtualization
S3 – Simple Storage Service

Microsoft - Live Mesh –To bring your home desktop on the web


When Salesforce.com and Cordys take part in this revolution by catering their offering to enterprise with its on demand CRM and on demand BPM, Amazon EC2 offers the computing power on the web (Infrastructure as Service) through virtualization.

While Google comes with Google Apps Engine (Platform as Service) and Google Apps for small and medium enterprises, the stage becomes more vibrant.

Google envision that coming days are for webtops with computing power, applications and data on the web.

Then what will happen to the existing thick clients (desktops)?

Microsoft has answer for it with its Live Mesh .In their perspective there is no need to get rid of the existing computing power and suite of applications on thick clients, instead of that we can bring your personal desktop or office desktop, on the web as Live desktop with out loosing the rich consumer experience the desktop offers.

As the industry matures, who will be in the driving seat? Let’s wait and see…

Mashup Explained

Mashup is one of the interesting trends in today’s web world.
It’s nothing but aggregating the services available on the web and making a meaningful application out of it.

A simple example can be a search application which aggregates a Google Map, News Feed and flickr Photos .Sounds interesting!!! ?..Yes there are lots of Mashup applications on the web of this kind.

The mashup concept is equally gaining popularity in the enterprise world as well when web has become the platform for computing.Following are some services with which a we can make a meaningful business mashup..

Sales force services
BT services
Google Apps
Strikeiron

Intersted in seeing a mashup using the above services? Check out the demo in

theprocessfactory website.

Programmable Web
Networkmashups

The industry veterans are already made their presence with their tools

Google - Google Mashup Editor
Yahoo – Yahoo Pipes
IBM – IBM QED wiki.
Cordys - MashApp Composer
Interesting isn’t it ? Then start now itself…All the best for your first Mashup!!!