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Measurement: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 3

CloudGeometry

SaaS business metrics are not hard to find ; we won’t analyze them in-depth here. DevOps has largely completed the evolution of systems monitoring from the datacenter/IT worldview to what is commonly referred to as observability. As it turns out, SaaS operational platform metrics are also abundant.

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User Model: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 1

CloudGeometry

There are at least three foundational dimensions that translate your business assumptions into critical technical solution inputs: User Model Monetization Measurement In this blog series, we explore how these three dimensions figure into key technical recommendations which enable scale in pursuit of SaaS business growth.

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Understanding Multi-tenancy, the Keystone of SaaS

CloudGeometry

2020 left no doubt: the growth of cloud computing is firmly grounded in the SaaS business model. The Fundamental Goal of SaaS tenant Isolation – Know what tenancy is, its types, and key services from a user/customer context. A tenant is the set of application services dedicated to a single specific set of users and customers.

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25% of B2B SaaS Sales Are Headed to Cloud Marketplaces

OpenView Labs

Cloud marketplaces like AWS Marketplace, Azure Marketplace and Google Cloud Platform Marketplace are digital storefronts where companies can list their offerings for software buyers to find, purchase and provision software. . Marketplaces will enable creative and flexible new business models.

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When Does Open Source Make Sense for a Business?

OpenView Labs

Think: financial services, healthcare, and other highly-regulated industries. This is probably the toughest aspect of building an open-source business from both a go-to-market and product strategy perspective. They also all sport a very technical user base (DevOps and Data Engineers, primarily). You’ll compete with yourself.