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| Newsletter - April 2008 |  
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| Welcome to Aspire Systems’ monthly
newsletter. Our focus is to bring you the latest software product
development news, trends, best practices and tips to help you succeed
as a software provider. This month, the spotlight is on Software-as-a-Service. There’s so much buzz in the market about SaaS today: Software-as-a-Service is certainly an idea whose time has come! No one can ignore the on-demand model of delivery anymore. As a software provider, if you intend to transition to SaaS, you must be prepared for every aspect of your business to be impacted. This includes pricing, delivery, sales channels, product architecture, support and infrastructure. Read on for some tips, success stories and the latest happenings in the SaaS marketplace today. Insights Technology enablers for SaaS A robust SaaS product can be built with a minimalist approach, and it can work very well. However, there are additional tools, concepts and techniques that can be utilized effectively when building SaaS products. (Author: Karthik Viswanathan, Architect - SaaS Solutions, Aspire Systems) Real-life examples of On-demand product development success An On-demand Concierge-supported Loyalty System A concierge-supported loyalty solution provider wanted to optimize their product so that a single instance of it could provide all of their services to multiple clients. Aspire re-architected their product to enable SaaS characteristics and reduced the implementation timeframe for each client from 2 months to 1 week. An e-Procurement automation product suite converted to an On-demand model Aspire helped architect a database-driven on-demand solution for an e-procurement automation vendor that included multi-tenancy, configurability, security, internationalization, integration with third party applications and custom workflows. Aspire News NASSCOM Face-to-Face interview In an exclusive interview with NASSCOM (the chamber of commerce of the IT-BPO industry in India), Gowri Subramanian, CEO of Aspire Systems elaborates on how Aspire helps customers build quality software products quickly and consistently through Producteering. Different SaaS perspectives: Top 10 Laws for Being “SaaS-y” Studying over a hundred SaaS companies (both pure-plays and hybrids), Byron Deeter of Bessemer Venture Partners has formed a new set of rules followed by SaaS-savvy companies that are very different from the best practices adopted by traditional ISVs. Martin Synder's opposing views to the 10 laws above Snyder, President of Main Sequence Technologies, an Ohio solutions company that provides on-demand or licensed software and related services for recruitment, has some differences of opinion on Byron Deeter's research on SaaS companies. Lessons learned running a SaaS business Benjamin Yoskovitz, CEO & Co-Founder of Standout Jobs, which is in many ways a SaaS company, discusses both the above opinions on SaaS and expands on them from his real-life SaaS experience.
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