Our first partner led colloquium was hosted by OpSource last Tuesday.  For those of you not in the know, OpSource provides industry-leading SaaS enablement and delivery services for ISVs making the transition to delivering their solutions on demand.

David McKenzie gave us a detailed presentation on the best practices of operational excellence for on demand delivery.  For many ISVs out there, the challenge to take their existing applications to market as a SaaS solution is a daunting one.  For many of you, the choice has been made - deliver your application via the Apex platform to gain leverage and access to a huge business ecosystem (659,000 paying subscribers and rapidly growing).  But what about your existing SaaS offering?  Do you have to port it all to the Apex platform?  In some cases, you may design external components to be mashed up inside your Apex application - so, how will you manage this service to the degree of RAS (reliability, availability and security) provided by the Apex platform?  One answer is OpSource.

OpSource has solved this problem for many AppExchange partners today.  They understand the Apex platform and modes of integration (Web services, single sign on, etc), and they are experts in securing Software as a Service offerings.  Check out the Podcast and presentation to find out more.