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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.

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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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Thanks to Bee, ChartMogul, Maast, SecureFrame, and StratusGreen for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2023!

SaaStr

Our mission is to build powerful and secure cloud software for subscription businesses of all sizes, with a strong emphasis on good design and ease of use. Maast offers payments, banking, lending and more as features in software provider’s platforms – with one relationship, contract and integration.

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The Critical Question Facing Web3 Infrastructure Startups

Tom Tunguz

When I hosted this blog on Amazon Web Services, I used 5 products. That’s much more work than the automatic credit card payment with AWS. Developers building sophisticated applications employ 10, 20, maybe 30 services. First, the ecosystem decides that infrastructure payments should occur in stablecoins - like USDC or UST.

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6 SaaS Development Services Your Startup Needs In 2024

How To Buy Saas

With over 50 billion SaaS service users in the US (including repeat customers) there’s little doubt about the health of the SaaS industry. But what exactly are these services, and should your startup business be using them? One way to think of Software as a Service (SaaS) is as renting software instead of owning it.

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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. It is very possible that no other company has done as much to shape our decade as Jeff Bezos’s behemoth. Rise of mobile.

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4 SaaS benefits & advantages: Software as a Service pros & cons

ProfitWell

If you haven’t transitioned to SaaS yet, I promise moving to a cloud-based computing system sounds more complicated than it actually is. I’ll walk you through what SaaS is, how it compares to other cloud services, and the pros/cons of SaaS. First, to nip any confusion in the bud, SaaS stands for “software as a service.”