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Becoming a Platform

April 29, 2009

Turning your product into a platform is en vogue. From salesforce.com, to the Apple iTunes App Store, to Valve’s Steam, many companies are attempting to open the architecture of their product to the World in the hopes of building the critical mass that becoming a platform provides. Let’s explore what makes a product succeed or fail as a platform, and the decision criteria you can review with your business as you decide to commit resources to a platform project.

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SaaS Foundations

August 14, 2008

Scott Sehlhorst of Tyner Blain has a really great post up on SaaS fundamentals. If you’re evaluating SaaS as a sales/delivery model, you owe it to yourself to read and understand these issues first. I especially like how he positions everything from the Point of View of the customer (which is how we should all think).

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