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

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Part 1: User Model & Onboarding If you have a business model, you have put together ideas about users. Let’s do that by viewing that next level through the lens of onboarding. Onboarding in SaaS is an end-to-end process. Onboarding operationalizes your user model by expressing it through tenant context.

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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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This has consequences both for the cost of onboarding a customer, as well as the cost of maintaining the customer during the discovery period. Lift and shift changes can also introduce costs around spiky network traffic or data egress/ingress charges across secure VPCs or Availability Zones.

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

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When business-critical applications move out of the data center with “lift and shift”. The B2B SaaS arms race will be won by those who can consistently translate technical debt into development versatility: adding new features, integrating new data sources and workflow integrations, trying new technologies, retiring locked-in dependencies.

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Understanding Multi-tenancy, the Keystone of SaaS

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Additional Isolation Options – Supplementary isolation approaches focused on compute and data Storage considerations. There’s no one-size-fits-all SaaS architecture, so practical strategies of building such frameworks will vary. Governing authorities lay down regulation on private data protection.