SaaS on the rise - Why carriers have to make our lives miserable

SaaS on the rise„Why carriers have to make our lives miserable“

A War Story

Quick Survey

André Cedik

@andrecedik

E-Commerce Consultant & Ruby Developer

„Work for clients in order to do our own stuff“

„shipcloud is your one stop for sending packages in Europe“

What is SaaS ?

What are cloud services?

• Outsourcing of IT resources

What are cloud services?

• Running „in the cloud“

• Different forms of services

‣ Infrastructure (IaaS)

‣ Network, storage, virtualization …

‣ Manual configuration, management and updates of components

What are cloud services?

• Different forms of services

‣ Platform (PaaS)

‣ Infrastructure + App platform

‣ Almost no configuration

‣ Automatic updates

What are cloud services?

• Different forms of services

‣ Software (SaaS)

‣ Everything is managed

What are cloud services?

• No (hardware / software) setup / maintenance

Cloud Services Pros

• Clear price structure

• Easily scalable (pay-as-you-go)

Cloud Services Pros

• Good choice for start ups

• Small barrier to start

• Reachable from everywhere in the world

Cloud Services Pros

• You just need a modern web browser

• Dependency on provider

Cloud Services Cons

Developer Centric SaaS

W00t?

• Make stuff easier for developers

Developer Centric SaaS

• Webservices based on a simple API

Why carriers have to make our lives miserable

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Who needs an API?

http://railsgirls.com/hamburg

Thanks!

@andrecedik

shipcloud.io

webionate.de

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