As a follow-on to my SaaS University presentation "Multi-Tenancy in SaaS: The Business Case" we have put together a webinar with some industry insiders. In addition to me representing Sixteen Ventures, Mike Dunham from Scio Consulting, and Rick Chapman of Softletter will be on the panel. Jeremy Beck of Scio will be the moderator. The idea behind this webinar is to dig a little deeper than I did in Chicago to get to the implementation level of Multi-Tenancy and its various incarnations. I will be speaking on the business implications of each level of tenancy.

1. Business Implications of SaaS
Multi-Tenancy
Presented July 16, 2009 via Webinar
Hosted by Scio (http://sciodev.com)

2. What SaaS Is Not
Pricing Model Revenue Model
Anything on the
Software Delivery
Web, in the cloud,
Method
etc.
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3. What SaaS Is
Business Intellectual
Architecture Property
Technology Business Model
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4. What SaaS Is
Functionality Commercially
delivered via web focused
Inherently Single-Instance,
Social Multi-Tenant
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5. Decision Time:
Are you a SaaS Vendor or not?
Hybrid is hard;
Mindset and Focus
pick one
Revenue Make the decision
Recognition Issues and stick with it
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6. Remember!
The further you stray from this clear
definition of SaaS, the harder it will be
for you to realize all of the benefits of
being a pure-play
SaaS Vendor.
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7. Multi-Tenancy
Considerations
Application Data Layer
Infrastructure
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8. Multi-Tenancy
Infrastructure
Resource
Economies of Scale
Efficiency
Implementation
Virtualization Agnostic
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9. Multi-Tenancy
Application
Ease of SDLC Human Resource
Management Efficiency
No Customized Business Scalability
Versions
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10. Multi-Tenancy
Data Layer
Aggregate Data Track Usage
Advanced
Implementation
Monetization
Agnostic Strategies
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11. Remember!
The further you stray from this clear
definition of SaaS, the harder it will be
for you to realize all of the benefits of
being a pure-play
SaaS Vendor.
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12. SaaS
Business
Architects
Lincoln Murphy, Managing Director
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13. Multi-Tenancy
Data Layer Implementation
Must be Single Unique Database
Instance per Tenant
Multi-Tenant Multi-Tenant
Database, unique Database, Shared
Schema Schema
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14. ASP Model
Multi-Instance, Non Web-native
Single-Tenant Applications
Customizations No Inbuilt
cause Business Revenue Models
Scalability Issues
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