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By: Michael Cote on SaaS IT Management « FR Test Blog

Michael Cote on SaaS IT Management « FR Test Blog — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:32:36 +0000

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By: People Over Process » Blog Archive » The IT Department and SaaS: When Your 15 Minutes Are Up…?

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:02:53 +0000

[...] to SaaS. What does the IT department do in a more SaaS centric world? I’ve outlined what it might look like from a provider side, but not so much from the IT department’s angle. Before I compose up my thoughts, I’m [...]

By: Dave Rosenberg

Dave Rosenberg — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:57:58 +0000

I meant readers. Sorry. No coffee yet.

By: Dave Rosenberg

Dave Rosenberg — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:57:05 +0000

I am sure we can get that together. I will email the gang over there and we’ll thrill all your leaders.

By: cote

cote — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:03:27 +0000

Thanks for the note, Dave! I really like this part:

the bigger picture is that you treat SaaS as an endpoint app in SOA or design the APIs to support more of a bus approach

That's awesome.

Do you think the OpSource and/or you guys would want to do a podcast about how they use Mule? Personally, I'd find it fascinating and I'd hope others would too.

By: Dave Rosenberg

Dave Rosenberg — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 04:38:49 +0000

When I was at the OpSource SaaSCon event last week I learned all this crazy stuff that people are doing with SaaS…one main takeaway is that a properly designed SaaS architecture takes into account systems management and reporting (just like a good enterprise IT architecture) and that it’s really just a set of design principles that most people aren’t that familiar with yet.

In your mind map you have Cast Iron, which is just an expensive point solution for SF.com, the bigger picture is that you treat SaaS as an endpoint app in SOA or design the APIs to support more of a bus approach

You know that OpSource runs on top of Mule right? Did you also know that they built their entire IT infrastructure to connect into Mule for management of everything–network gear, the whole shebang. It’s very bleeding-edge but definitely the most interesting new-school system architecture I have seen yet.

And how dare you miss the Mule! :>