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

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User- and customer-specific application logic and data services are provisioned in a way that enables streamlined monitoring and updating In SaaS terms, this combination of user and customer is called tenant context. Tenant isolation also drives requirements for security, compliance, geo-based platform selection, data privacy, and more.

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

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Big data has been a game-changer. It has revolutionized tracking systems utilization and health data, by allowing capture of almost any conceivable system behavior. Platforms operations teams had potentially endless evidence of any set of data points describing what happened where and when.

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

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For purposes of your monetization strategy, the overwhelming majority of data that you need can be captured hourly and rolled up once a day, prior to export into graphs for exploration and analysis. “Real time” is not a technical requirement. More often than not, it’s a casual expression for “When can I have it?”