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

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First: SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. That makes for a vast landscape of pitfalls in the search for common ground between business and architecture. Part 1: User Model & Onboarding If you have a business model, you have put together ideas about users. Success in spite of these obstacles?

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

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First, SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. The challenge is to build common ground between business and architecture so as to translate business assumptions into critical technical solution inputs. SaaS business metrics are not hard to find ; we won’t analyze them in-depth here.

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The SaaS Balancing Act: Always Be Modernizing

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Finally, you need to do it quickly, because if you’re not competitive, your customers can and will take their business elsewhere. Optimize cloud economics and drive Business Goals. Customers may tell you what they don’t like, but they can’t always tell you how to fix it (nor would you ask them).

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Monetization: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 2

CloudGeometry

First, SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. The challenge is to build common ground between business and architecture so as to translate business assumptions into critical technical solution inputs. Optimize cloud economics and drive Business Goals. So why put it on our shortlist?

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Zeroing in on Cloud Technical Risk for Targeted Customer Impact

The best proof of the power of cloud tools and business models? Yet keeping all the moving parts of cloud running right – especially in a fast-moving, competitive market – can cause conflict between technical and business objectives. Keeping your customers confident and loyal.

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

CloudGeometry

When business-critical applications move out of the data center with “lift and shift”. Well-Architected Framework scorecard : One of the great advantages AWS has over other cloud providers is what it learns from the Amazon consumer eCommerce business. When you treat your cloud provider as a fractional colo.

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Understanding Multi-tenancy, the Keystone of SaaS

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2020 left no doubt: the growth of cloud computing is firmly grounded in the SaaS business model. Optimize cloud economics and drive Business Goals. There’s no one-size-fits-all SaaS architecture, so practical strategies of building such frameworks will vary.