Practical Limits for Configurability
The last few months, my team has been working on a sample SaaS application to demonstrate the multi-tenancy concepts I’ve been describing in my papers and blog. One of the areas we spent some cycles thinking about are the aspects of configurability that a SaaS provider should allow the tenants to have. I want to share some design lessons from my team’s discussions:
Google Talk Bots That You Must Add as Friends
You can do lot of interesting stuff with Google Talk like get alert notifications, save bookmarks to delicious, manage web calendars, set reminders, write blogs, and so much more.
Such features can be easily integrated into Google Talk through...
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Website Monitoring Services continuously monitor your websites for downtime and send email alerts as soon as your web server goes down or becomes slow and inaccessible. I recently did a small experiment to evaluate the reliability and response time...
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I've just returned from Software 2008, held at the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas. This year, Software 2008 moved away from the bay area and was co-located with Interop, a giant networking hardware convention monstrosity. One of the reporters at...
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I get the impression that most CRM vendors are at best deeply suspicious of CRM consultants. Not surprisingly, as a CRM consultant myself, I’d argue the negative impression is undeserved, and that we provide considerably more benefit to vendors than...
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Released awhile ago, SnapPages is a flash powered interface that allows you to share your hobbies/interests, organize schedules, and socialize with friends. They have three applications currently, including: Friend’s Manager, Calendar Manager, and...
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Even as layoffs reach historic levels, some employers in the United States have found an alternative to slashing their work forces. They're nipping and tucking instead.
A growing number of employers, hoping to avoid or limit layoffs, are...
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