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

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Before you shout “Digital Transformation” in a crowded marketplace, it’s important to recognize two foundational principles in developing a SaaS product plan. First: SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. Second (a corollary of the first): There is no one-size-fits-all SaaS architecture.

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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.