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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

Putting narrative order on the past decade, a 10-year-period that has somehow remained stubbornly nameless, is quite the challenge, but it’s impossible to make sense of the 2010s without understanding the role of software. To give some perspective, there were about 300 million smartphones sold in 2010.

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ISVs vs SaaS: What’s the Difference?

Stax

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Software-as-a-Service Providers (SaaS) operate within the same market, thus creating a push-and-pull revenue dynamic. TL;DR ISVs develop and distribute software products independently and often collaborate with hardware manufacturers and platform providers. Learn More What are ISVs?

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What Are SaaS Products + 22 Successful SaaS Companies to Follow

User Pilot

TL;DR A SaaS product delivers software remotely, reducing the need for local installation, maintenance, and updates. Cloud computing offers three main service models: SaaS for ready-to-use software, PaaS for application development frameworks, and IaaS for scalable virtualized computing resources.

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6 SaaS Development Services Your Startup Needs In 2024

How To Buy Saas

In this blog post, we’ll try to answer these questions and explain which solutions may be helpful to your business. One way to think of Software as a Service (SaaS) is as renting software instead of owning it. 6 Types of SaaS Development Services to Consider Okay, SaaS software development promises many benefits.

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The Answers to Scaling, Hiring, and Everything Else: A SaaStr Europa AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 585 + Video)

SaaStr

I think Azure’s like 7,000, Google. These are categories of software that have existed for 30 or 40 years for a reason. You can mock Salesforce or Oracle or Workday, but these are endemic issues that will always need heavy software. Then a lot of folks will say, “Well, great, another video app.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Byron Deeter, Elliott Robinson, Henry Schuck, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

You see that both organizations embracing this cloud movement, but specifically in COVID, more and more companies turning to the cloud as their solution for business continuity or for business growth in these times when shelter in place is making on-prem solutions difficult and in many cases, impossible to use. It is staggering.

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Top 30 SaaS Companies in India

SmartKarrot

SaaS (Software as a service) has become a buzzword in recent years. Found in 2015 by Vijay Yalamanchili, Keka, Keka is an HR and payroll management software designed for modern organizations. The word Keka is a slang word in Telugu (founder’s native language) that translates to Perfect – how the software is. IBSFintech.