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The SaaS Balancing Act: Always Be Modernizing

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The Race Toward Feature Agility The answer to remaining competitive lies in accelerating the journey from traditional forms of software development toward feature agility – finding what your customers value and figuring out how to get it into your development process faster. Optimize cloud economics and drive Business Goals.

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

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When developing a SaaS product plan, it’s important to recognize two foundational principles. 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. It makes no difference to anyone but you.

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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. Put another way, the user model describes the “who” of what your software does. First: SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy.

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

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When developing a SaaS product plan, it’s important to recognize two foundational principles. Establishing a unit metric that’s visible to all the stakeholders in your organization drives alignment across the many choices to be made in building the software that delivers on customer value (rather than secondary internal KPIs).

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

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Loosely-typed, scripted programming languages accelerate the requirements feedback loop between customers and developers. Frankencloud happens when the speed of customer-facing feature development is paid for by charging interest to functions outside of the direct control of the application developers.

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Understanding Multi-tenancy, the Keystone of SaaS

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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. The Single-Tenant architecture that dedicates specific software and infrastructure services to a single customer (in many ways similar to the world before cloud).