Blog de Joe Freeman

Software as a Service can be an equalizer, giving organizations access to best-of-breed capabilities with lower entry costs than custom-built or self-managed services.  Product evaluation involves business requirements and non-technical and technical Non Functional Requirements.   The following are part of my list of mandatory NFRs for a modern internet-connected SaaS product. All of these are discussed in more detail in the video. Video Control and Data Plane Platform Control Plane  Software management functionality used by the SaaS vendor must be isolated from the Tenant control and data plane. It must not overlap functionality that is delegated to the tenant. This plane should not have access to business API or data. It should be easy to block access from the public internet. Tenant C...

You created some piece of software that can be repurposed by you or by others.  Step back and think about how the system was built.  Do the design and data protection rules mean you have to run multiple single-tenant instances?  Is it built in a way you can securely add tenants into a multi-tenant system? Identity management, data security, load isolation, data isolation, log, and metric isolation, reporting controls, data exposure, and APIs are just some of the things that you need to review before signing up new consumers. Multi-tenant or Single-tenant The big push is to Software as a Service.  You stand up your platform in the cloud for use by other teams or organizations.  There are two main models for supporting multiple customers.  Muli-tenant: The customers all run within a shared environment.  The environment is coded to firewall off the different consumer groups to make it appear as if they are the only ones in the system. ...