With the experience from the Web 2.0 era, Social Media and Consumer Web Applications, modern day users have developed similar expectations from Business Applications. This phenomenon has a significant impact on user adoption rates of Enterprise Cloud and SaaS Apps.

The Google Apps Market place ever since its launch in 2010, has become a vibrant ecosystem and a market place for ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) providing business cloud apps. Today there are hundreds of applications from developers all over the world using Google Apps Marketplace to sell directly to the 30 million Google Apps users [...]

In 2009, we worked with the global lingerie brand, Triumph International’s Sri Lankan operation to develop a loyalty solution aimed at increasing the level of ‘customer intimacy’ the brand has with its consumers. The brand owns and operates a few boutiques in key shopping points but a significant portion of sales come from a ‘store-in-a-store’ [...]

We have been sharing views on how an ISV can make smooth transition to the SaaS model.  Here we list down the next steps. If you missed the previous posts, check it out on our blog. Step 7:  Design and Development Our colleague and technical consultant, Tharaka de Alwis has identified some key factors that [...]

During recent times, our SaaS specialization team has been working and researching in-depth in to various aspects of SaaS application delivery. Following is an abstract of a paper released by us which explains the importance of having a robust architecture and a powerful administration capabilities built into your application. From the day you launch your [...]

We just launched a new iPhone application on the app store today. A great team effort. And we’re already busy developing another app for one of  our clients in the U.S. Hint on what its going to be – lets just say its got to do with customer Loyalty, retail etc. More details will follow [...]

3 days, over 100 speakers and 2000 registered participants for the World Cloud Computing Forum happening at the Olympia Conference Centre, London from the 29h of June to the 1st of July. And we are excited to be a part of it! This becomes even more special to us as the event coincides with the [...]

In our previous blog we discussed how ISVs can take a measured approach towards ‘SaaS-ifying’ their products. We will continue to explore the next probable steps that can be taken on the journey to becoming a reliable SaaS provider and doing it successfully. Step 4: Draw up an SLA We cannot over emphasize the importance [...]

The Colombo Chapter of MobileMonday got off to a grand start on the 23rd of April with the launch event happening at a premier hotel in Colombo. As a member of the Mobile and Telco Centre of Excellence (CoE), Sabre was in the thick of the action; convening, sponsoring, compering and of course capturing it [...]

Gone are the days where a software product company makes a sale, signs a contract and hands over the project to the technical team. Thereon starts the process of customizing, tweaking and delivering all the features that your marketing team promised… well, almost. Despite the hype of moving into a SaaS based offering, software product [...]