Implementing Software as a Service

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This talk describes basic architectures and best practices for implementing Software as a Service applications. In this context, achieving good margins requires making careful engineering trade-offs between adding features and lowering total cost of ownership. In particular, multi-tenancy, which maximizes the number of businesses that can be consolidated onto a given system component, can limit which features are provided. This talk surveys commonly used techniques for implementing multi-tenant databases and describes a new technique we are developing at the Technical University of Munich.

Dean Jacobs received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University in 1985. He then served on the faculty of the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California, where he studied distributed systems, databases, and programming languages. When the Internet began to get widespread commercial use, Dr Jacobs joined the company WebLogic, which was later purchased by BEA Systems. There, he developed the clustering and caching infrastructure for WebLogic Application Server, for which he holds thirteen patents. Dr Jacobs then joined Salesforce.com, where he helped to develop a highly-scalable, multi-tenant infrastructure for Software as a Service. Currently, Dr Jacobs is a Chief Development Architect at SAP.

Gastgeber: Dr. Alexander Zeier

 
Referent: Dr. Dean Jacobs
                Chief Development Architect
                SAP AG

Sprache:    English
Ort:           HS 1
Datum:      Donnerstag, 12. Juni 2008
Zeit:          16:00