Opinion on a good CRM that isn't Salesforce?
There are so many options!
One that a friend of mine has put together is - http://getmysky.com/
Stitching Together A SaaS of SaaS (and never owning a server)
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Re: Stitching Together A SaaS of SaaS (and never owning a server)
#12I'm not fundamentally against SaaS, but I think it's not necessarily a good thing for every use case possible. I mean, it's a good thing that anyone can provision infrastructure with an API call, but there are two things I'm worried about: - vendor lock-in: by integrating whoever's API in your code and making it part of your application you make it hard to switch to a similar service offered by someone else. Example:…
definitely things that need to be considered - vendor lock in being the worst, IME. i'm less worried about API call integration, as i tend to isolate 3rd party APIs from my code... but that doesn't prevent all vendor lock-in. for me, being able to focus on features is more important than these concerns, right now. i expect that over time i will take some of these tasks in and write the code myself, but at the moment…
My point is that even if you isolate 3rd party APIs from your code there might be things that can't be "translated". Obviously both EC2 and DigitalOcean give you the same basic product, virtualisation (the greatest common divisor), but the "quirks" each one of them have are the ones you should be exploiting to get maximum efficiency, and this is generally non-portable.
But yeah, I think SaaS is a great way to scaffold or MVP your ideas. You can have a hugely complex infrastructure up and running in just a few clicks, but I don't think it's a great long-term solution.
Re: Stitching Together A SaaS of SaaS (and never owning a server)
#13Opinion on a good CRM that isn't Salesforce?
Capsule CRM - www.capsulecrm.com
Re: Stitching Together A SaaS of SaaS (and never owning a server)
#14Derick, always impressed with your writing and work. The challenge I hit recently is that the saas providers I'd like to use don't enable the user experience I need my app to have. I will likely end up doing most everything directly on aws, even though I would prefer the improved time to market gained by leveraging higher level paas abstractions. Of course, iaas is still a nice high level abstraction itself :-)
Re: Stitching Together A SaaS of SaaS (and never owning a server)
#15Derick, always impressed with your writing and work. The challenge I hit recently is that the saas providers I'd like to use don't enable the user experience I need my app to have. I will likely end up doing most everything directly on aws, even though I would prefer the improved time to market gained by leveraging higher level paas abstractions. Of course, iaas is still a nice high level abstraction itself :-)
thanks! :) i totally get the need to move things in house, too. i'm pretty happy that i can get the right experience for my users without having to do that, at this point. IaaS is definitely amazing! "oh, i need more servers? (fiddles with a knob) DONE!" :D