Comments for Nolio - Application Service Automation http://blog.noliosoft.com Discussing Application Automation and Data Center Automation Solutions Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:35:27 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 Comment on DevOps Monty by The application is only running on the developer system « Nolio – Application Service Automation http://blog.noliosoft.com/2010/04/devop-monty/comment-page-1/#comment-1452 The application is only running on the developer system « Nolio – Application Service Automation Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:35:27 +0000 http://blog.noliosoft.com/?p=205#comment-1452 [...] scenarios that essentially creates the infamous gap between Dev and Ops (check out this hilarious Monty Python take on DevOps) . In Christian’s opinion, lack of communication is a major cause. I would also expand this [...] [...] scenarios that essentially creates the infamous gap between Dev and Ops (check out this hilarious Monty Python take on DevOps) . In Christian’s opinion, lack of communication is a major cause. I would also expand this [...]

]]> Comment on DevOps Monty by Peter Cummings http://blog.noliosoft.com/2010/04/devop-monty/comment-page-1/#comment-1329 Peter Cummings Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:23:51 +0000 http://blog.noliosoft.com/?p=205#comment-1329 This is just hilarious. We're also putting together a DevOps teams that will report both to R&D and Operations. This is just hilarious. We’re also putting together a DevOps teams that will report both to R&D and Operations.

]]> Comment on Why SaaS Operations Need Automation by Andrew Junkuhn http://blog.noliosoft.com/2009/03/why-saas-operations-need-automation/comment-page-1/#comment-387 Andrew Junkuhn Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:55:25 +0000 http://www.noliosoft.com/blog/?p=26#comment-387 We spent 3 months building our SaaS offering front-end and another 6 on the provisioning, billing, retention policy, self-service, report generator, etc. It was very frustrating for the non-technical people in the business, as for the first 3 months they saw all sorts of lovely stuff popping up daily, then nothing. However now that we have all the automation done our app should run smoothly and with very little human involvement in the mundane tasks. It was a painful decision to approach it like this and cost us lots of money and time but Mr Shomron nails it on the head ! We spent 3 months building our SaaS offering front-end and another 6 on the provisioning, billing, retention policy, self-service, report generator, etc. It was very frustrating for the non-technical people in the business, as for the first 3 months they saw all sorts of lovely stuff popping up daily, then nothing. However now that we have all the automation done our app should run smoothly and with very little human involvement in the mundane tasks. It was a painful decision to approach it like this and cost us lots of money and time but Mr Shomron nails it on the head !

]]> Comment on Scripts vs. Automation by Shirish Deshpande http://blog.noliosoft.com/2009/08/scripts-automation/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Shirish Deshpande Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:25:00 +0000 http://www.noliosoft.com/blog/?p=133#comment-4 The first and foremost concern before implementing Automation in any project is cost / affordability. As building automation scripts even in house takes lot of efforts (at least initially) and cost of tool / in case of open source automation tool, cost of understanding the open source tools, work force of people, and availability of time. Automation is never bad unless you are not fulfilling your requirement! So understanding the purpose of automation w.r.t application is important. Regards, Shirish The first and foremost concern before implementing Automation in any project is cost / affordability. As building automation scripts even in house takes lot of efforts (at least initially) and cost of tool / in case of open source automation tool, cost of understanding the open source tools, work force of people, and availability of time.

Automation is never bad unless you are not fulfilling your requirement! So understanding the purpose of automation w.r.t application is important.

Regards,
Shirish

]]> Comment on Why SaaS Operations Need Automation by Thomas Hood http://blog.noliosoft.com/2009/03/why-saas-operations-need-automation/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Thomas Hood Fri, 22 May 2009 14:33:45 +0000 http://www.noliosoft.com/blog/?p=26#comment-3 Very good article. Its very essential to understand the level of automation required when you build up your own SaaS company. Based on my own experience you should pay attention to your order & billing processes related automation too. Very good article. Its very essential to understand the level of automation required when you build up your own SaaS company. Based on my own experience you should pay attention to your order & billing processes related automation too.

]]> Comment on Why SaaS Operations Need Automation by Scott Waldrum http://blog.noliosoft.com/2009/03/why-saas-operations-need-automation/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Scott Waldrum Thu, 14 May 2009 17:51:49 +0000 http://www.noliosoft.com/blog/?p=26#comment-2 Good article. Very few companies really think about this stuff early. I've been in engineering or product mgmt with 3 SaaS companies now. In fact, even as the VP of Product Development at the last company it was difficult to convince people that SaaS operations is important when you're trying to get your product out. (something about not having unlimited funds) I now work with a company that provides this type of infrastructure to other SaaS services. Interestingly enough, we're seeing more and more early stage companies speaking with us. Not long ago it was only larger SaaS services that had run head-on into the problem that were calling us. You break the operations pieces up into 2 parts. I completely agree that the 2nd part is tightly coupled with the application and likely needs to be done in house. The 1st part (provisioning, billing, retention policy, self-service, report generator) exists today in the form of SaaS offerings that manage subscribers/billing/payments. There are some great services that give you all of this right out of the box. <a href="http://www.ipapplications.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">IPA's platform</a> is just one of them. Good article. Very few companies really think about this stuff early. I’ve been in engineering or product mgmt with 3 SaaS companies now. In fact, even as the VP of Product Development at the last company it was difficult to convince people that SaaS operations is important when you’re trying to get your product out. (something about not having unlimited funds) I now work with a company that provides this type of infrastructure to other SaaS services. Interestingly enough, we’re seeing more and more early stage companies speaking with us. Not long ago it was only larger SaaS services that had run head-on into the problem that were calling us.

You break the operations pieces up into 2 parts. I completely agree that the 2nd part is tightly coupled with the application and likely needs to be done in house. The 1st part (provisioning, billing, retention policy, self-service, report generator) exists today in the form of SaaS offerings that manage subscribers/billing/payments. There are some great services that give you all of this right out of the box. IPA’s platform is just one of them.

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