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.)
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