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Mastering SaaS Resources

Learn about, develop, and deploy SaaS applications with these resources.

	IBM Managed Hosting Deliver your application to your customers using an IBM managed hosting environment. We offer services, from basic infrastructure to usage-based utility offerings to comprehensive end-to-end solutions.
	SaaS demonstration series Learn how IBM technologies can help you deliver secure and customizable multi-tenant applications. You can see common scenarios with techniques and best practices for delivering your software as a hosted service.

	Financial model for ISVs looking at SaaS (162KB) Learn about the financial issues of moving to the SaaS model, how to make the change, and case studies of successful companies.
	From myth to reality: Traditional ISVs' evolving Software-as-Services strategies (pdf, 545KB) Discover why Summit Strategies analyst Phil Wainewright states that "ISVs have unraveled the reality of software-as-services from the myths: there is a market for Software as Services, if you know where to look and what to offer."
	On-premise to on-demand: The SaaS opportunity for ISVs (pdf, 114KB) Read this Quocirca insight report describing how ISVs are recognizing the benefits of offering SaaS as an alternative for their customers.
	Software as a Service brochure (109KB) Read how IBM can help to provide the support you need to enable, manage, and market your SaaS solution.
	Software as a Service: A growth opportunity for software providers (pdf, 2.3MB) Read how technology providers and services firms are already reaping significant returns on their SaaS investment.
	The future of Software as Services and the partners ISVs will need to get there (pdf, 926KB) Learn why Summit Strategies analyst Tom Kucharvy states that "Software-as-services is on the cusp of going mainstream both as an application delivery / pricing model and as an architectural model. ISVs should look to partners to offload at least part of the work."

Webcasts

	SaaS and the small to medium business: How to focus on your business, not your IT Wed, 22 Oct 2008, 1 - 2:15 p.m. eastern time (ET) Despite smaller budgets and fewer IT resources, small and medium-sized businesses are competing on the same global stage as their larger competitors. To keep up, many are turning to Web-based business solutions.
	BPM for supply chain: Obtaining greater visibility and responsiveness for globally integrated supply chains Learn how organizations faced with increased global competition and shrinking margins can respond to these challenges by implementing supply chain process management solutions from TradeMerit and IBM.
	Using Cognos to deliver Software as a Service Learn about the IBM SaaS platform and how Cognos has helped leading SaaS providers to create new revenue, increase customer satisfaction, lower total cost of ownership, and gain competitive differentiation.
	Application Specific License model and Software as a Service offerings for Business Partners Learn how the IBM Application Specific License (ASL) model and IBM SaaS technology can enable you to deliver IBM software as part of your solution at low costs.
	Three new SaaS webcasts from Springboard Research Visit Springboard Research for three new SaaS-related webcasts. Top ten trends in enterprise IT (of which SaaS is one) SaaS trends & opportunities in Asia Pacific How will SaaS affect the channel in Asia Pacific? To access these webcasts, submit the registration form, and click On-demand Webcasts on the page that appears.
	Deliver traditional applications as a service Learn how you can rapidly implement SaaS applications within weeks without having to re-architect your solution.
	Win with Software as a Service in healthcare and life sciences Learn how IBM Managed Services works with and supports ISVs in the healthcare and life sciences industry.
	Thirty-eight percent of government and education IT will implement SaaS This session focuses on how IBM Managed Services works with and supports ISVs to deliver your government or education application via a subscription model.

Podcasts

	Talking Software as a Service with IBM and Martin Dawes Systems (3.3MB) Dave Mitchell, IBM program director for Software as a Service (SaaS), talks about the current IBM focus on SaaS, and Gary Steen, technology director for Martin Dawes Systems, joins to talk about what they are doing in the SaaS space and their work with IBM. (Transcript)
	Rado Nikolov: What IBM is doing with software as a service (3.0MB) Rado Nikolov, director of emerging business at IBM, talks with solutions-daily.com about what IBM is doing with software as a service.
	IBM and Trilog Group explain collaborative project management and how to accomplish it as an on demand, software as a service (6.10MB) Ravinder Shan, vice president of business development at Trilog Group, and Rado Nikolov, director of emerging business at IBM, explain collaborative project management and how to accomplish it as an on demand, software as a service for both large and small companies.
	Dave Mitchell: Software as a Service and IBM (10.1MB) Dave Mitchell, program director for Software as a Service with IBM, discusses why developers need to understand SaaS and how IBM can help. (Transcript)

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