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

CloudGeometry

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.

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

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. SaaS business metrics are not hard to find ; we won’t analyze them in-depth here.

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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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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. This is a not one-sided convenience to just make life easier for the technology side: it’s a delivery model that structures how resources within the SaaS platform serve your customers.

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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.