Interesting ArCasts relating to Remend's SaaS Architecture

Remend Overview (14'38 video)

Software as a Service (SaaS) is simply the idea that instead of paying for the bits and running them on your server, you ought to be able to buy the service you want and let somebody else manage it. Of course, this is nothing new. You may have my website hosted by people you've never met. You don't care too much about the bits that actually run the server, you just want it to run and you don't want to think about it. In this case study overview we meet Remend one of the new crop of companies who are moving to a SaaS business model.

Architecture Overview (14'24 video)

When your business model in SaaS you have some interesting architecture challenges to overcome.  The goal is to add new customers who have varying architectural requirements with a low incremental cost.  The question is, how do you do it?  Well listen up because in this episode Armando Hernandez is going to provide us with an overview of how they are doing it.

Architecture Drilldown on Workflow and Services (29'21video)

Now that you've heard about the business model of a SaaS provider and the architecture overview I'm sure you are ready for the meat of this architecture. In this episode we drill into the workflow and services portion of the Remend on demand architecture.

User Experience (10'13 video)

Everybody wants to do things their own way. When it comes to SaaS this is most definitely the case. They want their own branding, they want extra fields, they want things to look a certain way. How do you support all of these requirements without resorting to mass customization of UI and business logic? In this episode we learn how Remend took on this challenge using .NET 3.0.

Database Architecture (9'12 video)

The classic problem for Enterprise Software has always been that of extensibility. Not only extensibility of behavior but also of data. The team at Remend calls this "Polymorphic data" and they make heavy use of XML to make this work. In this episode we chat with the Remend Database Architect Vadim Brusilovsky to find out how he does it.