23
May
2011
A recent study commissioned by IBM showed that 60% of CIOs are ready to move to cloud computing. That means a lot of applications which were never designed for use in the cloud are going to be moving there over the next few years.
For those who are putting an application in the cloud for the first time and wondered, perhaps, what challenges they will face, have a look at the short overview I just put together for LinkedSeattle.com.
I built my first SaaS company in 2002, an anti-spam service based on a unique artificial intelligence engine I invented.
In all, I have brought five SaaS products to market, in areas as diverse as email security, business intelligence, Agile project management, project portfolio management and consumer sentiment surveys.
Success in SaaS only happens with cooperation between product design, technology, marketing, customer support, business and the users. It's an exciting, fast-paced team sport, and I wouldn't want to deliver software any other way.
I'm now bootstrapping my second SaaS startup in stealth mode. Watch here for details.