Welcome

I'm the Chair of the newly created SIG sponsored by eBIG, the East Bay Innovation Group (www.ebig.org) focusing on SaaS. I've created this blog to record my thoughts and perhaps share some of the research I am doing regarding Software as a Service and SaaS companies.

I make a distinction between SaaS as a delivery model and what I am calling "Pure Saas." From Wikipedia:

[Pure] SaaS applications differ from other applications delivered over the Internet in that SaaS solutions were developed specifically to leverage web technologies such as the browser, thereby making them web-native.

In other words, SaaS, in its purest form, is not merely a delivery model. SaaS represents a fundamental shift in how software will be written from now on.

Venture Capital money for software is all going to SaaS. SAP is working hard to release a SaaS offering for SMB (SAP Business ByDesign - article). Oracle is dramatically ramping up it's SaaS efforts (article). The trend is clear.