Mike Rollings is a senior analyst for Burton Group's Executive > >>Advisory Program. He covers enterprise strategy and architecture, IT investment planning, and governance. With 23 years of experience, Mike is recognized as creator of META Group's EA project delivery methodology and co-created META Group's portfolio management methodology.

Experience:-
Burton Group Catalyst Europe Conference, Shared Insights EA Conference, several META Group conferences

Presentation

Architecting for SaaS
Many of us have experienced the headache of installing and customizing an application that everyone complains about. CRM is a great example. Eventually, many companies make the choice to amputate the problem and leave it to someone else to operate.
 
Enter SaaS. SaaS allows pieces of IT to be commoditized so that the business can focus on core competencies.  Although a SaaS solution may solve immediate issues, organizations blinded by the business opportunity may ignore architectural challenges, integration issues, and other risks creating more problems than they solved.  But the most profound impact of SaaS is how it signals changes to fundamental architectural principles for solution design.
 
In this keynote session, Burton Group Senior Analyst Mike Rollings frames in the business context for SaaS, and discusses architectural principles which should be considered.

 

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