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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): http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/saas/sampleApp
• Visual Studio Solution - Get the Code: http://files.skyscrapr.net/users/saas/sampleapp/code/litwarehr_v10.zip
• Get the documentation: http://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: http://www.codeplex.com/litwareHR
• Bonus material, "behind the scenes", "deleted scenes": http://www.skyscrapr.net/architects-in-action.aspx
• Demo Walkthrough: http://files.skyscrapr.net/users/saas/sampleApp/Videos/LitwareDemo.wmv
• Architecture Webcast: http://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.)

Published Tuesday, February 13, 2007 1:47 PM by David Boschmans