Questions tagged [saas]

Software as a Service

Software as a Service is a cloud principle. It is a software delivery model in which software and its associated data are hosted centrally (typically in the (Internet) cloud) and are typically accessed by users using a thin client, normally using a web browser over the Internet.

MS Sharepoint is an example of SaaS.

Source: wikipedia

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Whats the next scalability step after seperate mysql farms?

I'm running a saas service which is growing rapidly. The customers are ecommerce websites and we get hit on every page view on each of our customers sites (currently 10M's hits/day). The current architecture is Mysql master/slave farms (run with…
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Can I stream a Windows App from a Linux server?

We are transitioning from distributed software (on a disc) to software as a service (SaaS) and are looking into how to present our application to users. My question is whether it is possible to stream a Windows-based app from a Linux server via…
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Need advice on setup for large Silverlight site

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my capacity planning? Hopefully someone on here will be nice enough to give some advice on what setup we should go with. I'm not a sys admin, just a developer, so I'm not entirely sure what all will need…
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SaaS licensing on Win2k8 R2 with SQL Server 2008

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? I've got a product which I would like to start marketing as a SaaS product - I'm just a bit at a loss when it comes to licensing. The product requires .NET web services,…
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Experience with VPN as SAAS?

Has anyone experience with VPN running as SAAS? Means I dont run any hardware or local software, I dont need VPN experts (admins). A service where I can configure the network data per webclient. Thanks
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React Js + AWS Cloudfront + SaaS + SSL Certificates

This is the scenario I have in mind SaaS application Frontend built using React Js Hosted using S3 bucket + Cloudfront Customer domains pointing to this application using CNAME Questions - Can AWS certificate manager be used to issue SSL to…
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SaaS Domain Mapping: Cname to subdomain

I read a lot of threads here and I think I'm doing everything perfectly. I setup a cname record on domain.com with the name www and the answer the.subdomain.com However when I go to www.domain.com it shows the content on www.subdomain.com instead of…
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How to have segregated database for clients while maintaining control over code?

I have a SAAS application hosted on AWS EC2 and RDS. we use django and Postgres for the stack What we did was we had the public schema holding the tenant info but the tenant specific data are held in individual schema in the same database Recently…
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Getting started with REST between two SaaS apps?

General form of the question : If you're planning to make 2 SaaS apps talk to each other, do most people try to make one of them initiate and control, or do they make (or buy) a 3rd party integration app? I have ServiceNow Express, with a…
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Domain name masking for django webapp Ask

I have a website with the domain address: www.example.com. We are providing a SaaS solution. The issue is we are facing a demand from some clients & that is domain name masking, i.e. the client wants to access my website from www.client1website.com…
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Run a bash script on a web request

I am developing an application which would require me to execute a bash script on a remote server when my users give me a command through a web interface. I need suggestions on how I can run a bash script on a remote server when I get a command on…
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Solid way to set up DDoS protection for a SaaS with many customer domains

I will be launching a SaaS soon. Customers will be able to sign up and get their own 'space'. Each customer will get a generated sub domain plus they can add their own custom domain if they wish too. My question is, how do SaaS companies that work…
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How to implement user-based routing for a mobile app

Here I have an interesting case I recently knew about. Let's say a small software shop creates mobile and web apps that make requests to a web service. The software is sold to single users and also to third party companies. Initially all users made…
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Server configuration for allowing custom domains to point to my saas app by just changing their nameservers to my own

I have successfully built a saas application that allow its users to add custom domain names, my question is how do i configure my server for it to allow users point their domain name to my saas app by just changing their domain name servers to my…
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Is it possible to delegate AD FS admin functions via a web interface?

I am looking at IAM for a SaaS application. The application will have client organisations accessing it and each organisation will want to manage their own users, permissions and roles. Of course only a subset of the full set of system permissions…
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