I am developing a SaaS application and I am looking for the best way to design lookup tables, taking in consideration: The look-up tables will have predefined data shared among all the tenants Each tenant must have the ability to extend the look-up table with his own data e.g adding a car class not defined I am thinking about adding...
Possible Duplicates: What is Cloud computing? What is cloud computing? Sorry for asking some Simple Question. But I cannot clearly understand the needs of Could Computing. or better to say I am confused about what actually Cloud Computing is. I've seen a lot of articles on this topic. But they were non technical and I cannot...
I am starting to build a SaaS line of business application in ASP.NET MVC2 but before I start I want to establish good architecture foundation. I am going towards a shared database and shared schema approach because the data architecture and business logic will be quite simple and efficiency along with cost effectiveness are key issues....
Hi Everyone, I am currently in the early stages of my project which is an ERP application that I plan to sell to enterprise clients. I heard about the Force.com platform but I'm confused on what benefits will I gain if I use it and not develop my own. Can you please explain why should I use Force.com or any PaaS? Regards, ...
Has anyone used MikeCI or Cloudbees for their continuous integration usage? Has anyone explored the use of SaaS for build automation including guys like codesion with hosted version control for example? ...
I run a website for music students that allows them to stream a variety of content from a number of sources. Our primary 'customers' are really the librarians at the institutions who subscribe to our service, so it's important to them to see the actual usage of the service, but they want more information than simple web analytics are ab...
Is there any general standard that defines what is a SaaS and what is a PaaS. The 2 seems to be used interchangeably? My guess is that everything is SaaS, so is there something about PaaS that makes it different from SaaS and better called PaaS? ...
I've attempted, unsuccessfully, to find statistics on how much day-to-day tasks are conducted in a web-browser vs desktop applications in a contemporary business environment. Think MS Outlook vs Gmail, Excel vs web-based CRM, etc. I am sure the percentages vary significantly from company to company, and form industry to industry. So,...
Several years ago I developed a website for a wholesale company that wanted to keep its online catalog (and wholesale pricing) private. Short of manually reviewing each submitted application, I was really stuck on how to accurately accomplish this. This has also come up in other web projects requiring registration to access certain "sli...
I wanted to ask the experts what will be the best choice of bug tracking saas for our company. We need a very user-friendly bug tracking service that will contain basic project management functionality. The company that I work in develops and designs websites, and in most cases our issues need to be shown visually. Please help. [Upda...
hosted solution preferred. Media upload of competition entries (video,image,text). User comments on other peoples submissions. Anything specifically tailored to competition formats? I've had a look at Ning, SocialGo etc ...
we have a saas web app, written in zend mvc (php) where users can enter their own domain name in their settings page. When they enter e.g. www.customdomain.com we want this domain to redirect to our web application so we can serve up their own pages from our app. We do the same already for subdomains by having a *.ourapp.com entry in o...
Hi if i get it right i can via rest API in amazon cloud to extend the capacity and the volume of my servers so simple logic is: if i have registered paying user in my Saas app i can via API to extent my web app ? someone can recommend on real life setups and configuration on web apps based on a cloud (Amazon?) ...
Hi, Lately I have been working with predictive analytics and in many cases my PC runs out of memory. For the analysis I use several tools such as Matlab, custom algorithms written in c++ or C#. Anyway I was thinking about running these algorithms in the cloud but so far I haven't got any experiences from cloud computing or server admin...
Wich database i use to a medium SaaS CRM??nosql or relational database.. Oracle Sql Server CouchDB etc.. Any suggestions? ...
I'm curious if a service exists that handles file uploads and provides a UI widget. Ideally it would work as such: They provide an embeddable and customizable file upload widget (upload progress, multiple files) with good cross browser / device compatibility. The upload widget detects file types and provides an optional UI for resizin...
Hi i am starting a research how architetural style i will use, to build a medium CRM SaaS, many books authors recommends use SOA, but SOA can be complex, and REST is simple style. so what yours recommend? Have any cases sucess with these 2 architertural styles with SaaS? ...
I found some questions here on how to create a SaaS. This much is easy, but what I don't understand is what makes an application a PaaS and not a SaaS. What lines does an application cross before we can start calling it a PaaS (platform as a service) and not just a SaaS (software as a service)? It seems like a small difference but I can'...
It seems to me that a PaaS basically is an application for developers. Is it always or is it usually the case that the end users of a PaaS are developers? Any examples of a PaaS that isn't for end users who are developers? ...
I've been directed to force.com as an alternative to creating an application using PHP and MySQL. My question is about deployment. What happens after I build the application on force.com. If the application is based on their API, will I be able to serve this application from my own domain if I wanted? ...