Monthly Archives: March 2007
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Fred Chong, Gianpaolo Carraro, Erik Weis and Matias Woloski gave a 3-day workshop on SaaS, at Microsoft HQ in Redmond. Attending Microsoft employees and ISVs used a SaaS reference application based on LitwareHR to get inside of the architectural challenges solutions for data model configuration, tenant provisioning, workflow configuration and security. Check Matias’s post for more details.
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These days I’ve been investigating on what Microsoft Hosting Solutions and Microsoft Provisioning System can do, how they work and how they would be applied to SaaS hosting environments, such as LitwareHR reference application’s. MPS is an extensible Windows-based platform that provides an XML-based framework that allows to create customized provisioning solutions for Web, data,... read more
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Some weeks ago, we published a screencast on Datacenter Provisioning, the process of installing in a SaaS provider datacenter, the structure needed in order to support LitwareHR‘s application. Once this is completed, tenants will be able to start trying the application. First of all, they will have to create a tenant account at LitwareHR so... read more
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Last Friday Roberto Schatz, Ramiro Iturregui, Matias Woloski and I introduced SaaS at Buenos Aires Microsoft HQ. Audience was mainly ISV’s, some of them already implementing SaaS ideas and looking for more guidance. After making an introduction of the main ideas (the long tail, architecture challenges, etc.), we role played LitwareHR demo (one guy from... read more
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Looking for blogs related to SaaS I found one of those funny post that compares software development with something else. In this case James Green‘s “cow milking” includes Scrum and SaaS. Although SaaS is not a software development methodolgy or process, is still funny: WATERFALL: 18 months ago, one cow went into the milking shead. ... read more
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I’ve been tagged by Matías Woloski and Julian dominguez. As part of this game, I have to reveal five things about me that most people don’t know and then pass the ball by tagging 5 more people. 1. I’m 25 years old, I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina and work for Southworks. I’m finishing my... read more
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I’ll be speaking about SaaS on next Friday’s Technight to be held in Buenos Aires Microsoft Headquarters. Roberto Schatz, Ramiro Iturregui, Matias Woloski and I will introduce SaaS, discuss about its business model, technical challenges and we will take a look at Litware HR, the SaaS reference application published in February. If you will be... read more
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Since we got feedback from the LitwareHR community about trying the SaaS reference application on Windows XP, last week we announced the release of a HowTo to get LitwareHR working under Windows XP. This time we are releasing a Windows XP specific installer for LitwareHR that automates that document’s steps. Once the installer finishes copying... read more
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Last week, we provided a HowTo for users wanting to try Litware HR in Windows XP. We also explained that Litware HR was designed to run in Windows Server 2003 because it provides features that a real world production datacenter needs, such as the ability to run multiple websites at the same time. But what... read more