In response to a comment asking for a recommendation of specific content on the Saas Showplace that I mentioned the other day, I poked around a bit more on the site. For me, the most interesting thing there is just the general sense of “wow, this delivery model is really gaining traction — fast!” Using the SaaS model to deliver Managed Video is a new idea so I’m not surprised that there aren’t yet direct references to it (on that site or others) but with luck we’ll be changing that by gathering a community of people involved in Managed Video here on this blog and staking out our own corner in the SaaS world.

In the meantime, I do recommend Jeff Kaplan’s interview about the different kinds of value that enterprises of different sizes are getting from SaaS applications. (A note about the Showplace that I should have mentioned in my first post: you have to register on the site to get to some of the content, and you have to keep in mind that the papers are written from a vendor perspective.)