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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. Success in spite of these obstacles?

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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. 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.

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The SaaS Balancing Act: Always Be Modernizing

CloudGeometry

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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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.