Sample SaaS application: LitwareHR
Gianpaolo Carraro and Fred Chong from the Microsoft Corp Architecture Strategy team have released the first Software as a Service sample application: LitwareHR.
LitwareHR is a fictitious HR application providing recruitment-management software delivered as a service. The goals of LitwareHR are:
- To be the embodiment of the SaaS architecture guidance described in our whitepapers published in the MSDN SaaS Architecture Center.
- To demonstrate how to use Microsoft technologies in the creation of SaaS solutions.
The sample is important not for what what it does, but how it does it. Architected as a single instance multi tenant solution, this application embodies many of the architecture principles Microsoft has published in the whitepapers [1] [2] and show how Microsoft technologies can be used for successfully build SaaS solutions.
Below a number of good resources to get started with the sample app:
- Repository of the code and related documentation (including webcasts): https://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/saas/sampleApp
- Visual Studio Solution - Get the Code: https://files.skyscrapr.net/users/saas/sampleapp/code/litwarehr_v10.zip
- Get the documentation: https://files.skyscrapr.net/users/saas/sampleapp/doc/litwarehrdocumentation_v10.zip
- Community site where architects and developers can discuss in forums, report bugs, suggest and vote on new features, contribute code: https://www.codeplex.com/litwareHR
- Bonus material, "behind the scenes", "deleted scenes": https://www.skyscrapr.net/architects-in-action.aspx
- Demo Walkthrough: https://files.skyscrapr.net/users/saas/sampleApp/Videos/LitwareDemo.wmv
- Architecture Webcast: https://files.skyscrapr.net/users/saas/sampleApp/Videos/LitwareArchitecture.wmv (this video is meant to be seen after the demo walkthrough)
I suggest to subscribe to Gianpaolo and Fred rss feeds to keep track of the progress of the application and the SaaS architecture.
[UDPATE] Ariel Shapiro from Southworks announces that two videos on LitwareHR are published on ARCast.net. (See also the comments of this post.)
Technorati tags: Software as a Service, SaaS, LitwareHR
Comments
Anonymous
February 13, 2007
PingBack from http://www.ditii.com/blog/2007/02/13/sample-saas-application-litwarehr/Anonymous
February 15, 2007
We released our first SaaS sample application. The sample is a fictitious HR application, but what mattersAnonymous
February 19, 2007
Ron Jacobs published two videos about Litware HR on ARCast.net. You can see Gianpaolo Carraro and Fred Chong introducing the application and showing the main architecture aspects:
- Introduction on SaaS and LitwareHR approach: http://www.skyscrapr.net/blogs/arcasttv/archive/2007/02/13/746.aspx
- Demo (Tenant Provisioning + Presentation Configuration) and architecture breakdown: http://www.skyscrapr.net/blogs/arcasttv/archive/2007/02/15/759.aspx Take a look at Litware HR's community site for more information: http://www.codeplex.com/litwarehr
- Anonymous
March 13, 2007
Based on customer feedback, we released a Windows XP specific installer for LitwareHR that automates the procedures documented in the HowTo. Hopefully this will make your evaluation of LitwareHR easier. More information is available here: http://www.codeplex.com/LitwareHR/Wiki/View.aspx?title=News&referringTitle=Home&ANCHOR#20070308 Thanks!