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Introducing Windows Azure
# Thursday, June 21, 2012
Windows Azure has been reborn. Along with its original technologies, this cloud platform now provides IaaS (with Windows and Linux), web hosting, support for VPNs, and more. It's by far the biggest change in Azure since its original 2008 announcement.
I've written a Microsoft-sponsored introduction to this new incarnation. It's on WindowsAzure.com, but if you'd like a direct link, the paper is available here.
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Videos: How SaaS Changes an ISV's Business
# Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Some people like to read, others like to watch. If you're interested in reading about how the move to SaaS changes an ISV's business, the paper I wrote on the topic is available here. If you'd rather watch, though, there's also a video series. The programs are:
- How SaaS Changes an ISV's Business: Assessing the Shift
- How SaaS Changes an ISV's Business: A Simple Decision Tree
- How SaaS Changes an ISV's Business: Customers, Pricing, and Revenue
- How SaaS Changes an ISV's Business: The Sales Process
- How SaaS Changes an ISV's Business: The Impact of Average Selling Price
- How SaaS Changes an ISV's Business: Marketing, Software Development, and More
Both these videos and the paper they're based on were sponsored by Microsoft. They're entirely generic, however, and so there's no Microsoft-specific content. Instead, they're intended to be helpful to any existing ISV who's thinking about creating a SaaS offering.
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The Business Value of Agile Development
# Sunday, June 03, 2012
Developers like agile development processes for all kinds of reasons. But software development is rarely an end in itself. Most of the time, developers build software because it has some kind of business value.
Given this, it's important to have a clear sense of agile's business benefits. I've written a short paper, aimed at business leaders, that walks through some of the main reasons why agile development makes their life better. The goal is to help the people who pay for custom software understand that agile development isn't just a way to make their dev team happier--it's also good for them.
The paper is sponsored by Microsoft, but it's not about Microsoft technology. (In fact, it's not about technology at all.) If you're interested, you can read it here.
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