White Papers

Many enterprise IT executives are wondering how they can bring the economic and practical advantages of cloud computing – the rapid deployment, pay-per-use pricing, scalable capacity ondemand to those more business-critical systems, yet without compromising their security, reliability and governance.

This paper by Phil Wainewright, one of the world's foremost authorities on Cloud, maps out how to ensure safe passage, trust and confidence when migrating such valuable IT assets to the cloud.

One of the key attractions of SaaS solutions is their ease of deployment and use from the user perspective. These same attributes are critical for SaaS providers who must acquire new customers and scale their operations in a cost-effective manner. However, this "on-boarding" process is fraught with complications and pitfalls that can lead to service delivery problems and customer dissatisfaction.

This white paper by Jeff Kaplan, well known industry analyst and managing director of THINKstrategies, examines how companies can effectively provision, bill and nurture users of on-demand solutions.

For an ISV, moving to a SaaS delivery model requires more than simply putting boxes in a datacenter. IDC believes this is a big adjustment to the mindset and operational model of the traditional ISV. The following is a profile of OpSource, a SaaS enabler that helps start-up SaaS firms, existing SaaS companies, and traditional ISVs launch and deliver SaaS applications. Source: IDC

THINKstrategies and SaaS Capital team up to help Independent Sofware Vendors understand how the pay-as-you-go, subscription model is driving aspiring SaaS players to pursue funding alternatives to support their business operations.

SaaS is vastly different from traditional client-server software. Learn how to adapt a single instance, multi instance, or multi tenant application for effective SaaS delivery.