SaaS is turning computing into a utility like the electric grid did for industry.

SaaS is a significant growth driver but fuzzy informations spread over the web make it difficult to understand and differenciate from software hosting environments.

This blog focuses on key success factors driving the development of a successful Business-As-A-Service solution.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Yes You Can be a BizSpark ISV and create an innovative SaaS application to go-to-market in weeks!

Microsoft helps ISVs startups in providing them with a great competitive advantage: both a large set of tools and solutions and the right to use them as SaaS components licenses for several years at a cost close to zero.

With the BizSpark program ISVs can also be followed and adviced by a SaaS Incubation Center. The solution provider thus adopts the best SaaS practices from the very beginning
  • focuses on delivering a differenciating solution and writes down a business strategy
  • drives an 8 key-success-factors action plan to implement its strategy
  • fully uses a SaaS based platform to get the needed scalability capabilities
  • takes attention to the customers' support at the right time when then try its solution
  • implements best practices listen-your-market and implement short-term roadmaps

You will find a very good example of such a process in this Case Study which shows how the Incubation Process helped a BizSpark ISV called Mobile Tracing Services to give birth to its Live-Task solution in weeks!

Key Benefits where:

  • Makes fast time to market possible
  • Develop valuable relationships
  • Get tools to expand its businesses
  • Use accessible and cost-effective service
  • Enhance support

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