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

2. A War Story

4. Quick Survey

5. André Cedik
E-Commerce Consultant &
Ruby Developer
@andrecedik

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

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

13. What is SaaS ?

14. What are cloud services?

15. What are cloud services?
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Outsourcing of IT resources
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Running „in the cloud“

16. What are cloud services?
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Different forms of services
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Infrastructure (IaaS)
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Network, storage, virtualization …
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Manual configuration, management and
updates of components

17. What are cloud services?
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Different forms of services
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Platform (PaaS)
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Infrastructure + App platform
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Almost no configuration
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Automatic updates

18. What are cloud services?
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Different forms of services
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Software (SaaS)
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Everything is managed

19. Cloud Services Pros
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No (hardware / software) setup / maintenance
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Clear price structure

22. Cloud Services Pros
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Easily scalable (pay-as-you-go)
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Good choice for start ups
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Small barrier to start

23. Cloud Services Pros
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Reachable from everywhere in the
world
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You just need a modern web
browser

24. Cloud Services Cons
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Dependency on provider

26. Developer Centric SaaS

27. W00t?

28. Developer Centric SaaS
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Make stuff easier for developers
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Webservices based on a simple API

29. Why carriers have to make our
lives miserable

36. CARRIERT020:COM1|T100:USA|T210:20|T330:33404|T400:201110001218|
T530:3,0|T545:20.03.2008|T 760:1|T805:1010|T810:Walter Schmidt|
T820:Neumarktstr. 35|T821:D|T822:36286|T823:Neuenstein|T852:0 |
T854:987654321|T859:Fa.|T860:PC Soft Inc.|T863:31 Central Ave.|
T864:Piscataway, New Jersey|/////CARRIER/////

37. <Address>
<cis:streetName>Musterstrasse</cis:streetName>
<cis:streetNumber>22</cis:streetNumber>
<cis:Zip>
<cis:germany>12345</cis:germany>
</cis:Zip>
<cis:city>Musterstadt</cis:city>
<cis:Origin>
<cis:countryISOCode>DE</cis:countryISOCode>
</cis:Origin>
</Address>

45. Who needs an API?

51. http://railsgirls.com/hamburg

52. Thanks!
shipcloud.io
@andrecedik
webionate.de

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http://wallpaperswide.com/philosoraptor-wallpapers.html
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