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The SaaS Balancing Act: Always Be Modernizing

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Hint: All the public cloud companies are doubling down on full-stack SaaS, betting that it’s the best way to get more companies growing via the cloud. Optimize cloud economics and drive Business Goals. The research uses behavioral science to identify the most effective and efficient ways to develop and deliver software.

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

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Part 3: Measurement One of the great breakthroughs of SaaS as a business strategy is in how it puts users and subscribers front and center of software development and keeps them there. Customer-centric software delivery SaaS sets solving customer problems as its north star. It makes no difference to anyone but you.

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Monetization: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 2

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Cost to serve a customer-facing feature is money that comes out of your pocket, and goes straight into the cloud provider’s pocket. When you want to procure more cloud resources faster, cloud providers make it easiest to buy speed, whether or not that pays off for you in the long run. It‘s almost always a function of time.

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

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When you treat your cloud provider as a fractional colo. Bottom-up cost transparency is a key feature of any public cloud platform. Cloud compute spend is another form of technical debt; more on that in a future post). Stories evolve as customers use the software, as new technologies emerge, as market behaviors come and go.

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Understanding Multi-tenancy, the Keystone of SaaS

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2020 left no doubt: the growth of cloud computing is firmly grounded in the SaaS business model. Behind the curtain, selling essentially the same software to different users and companies, again and again, relies on a distinct product architecture: secure multi-tenancy. Optimize cloud economics and drive Business Goals.