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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. First, SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. Until your better-and-faster solution reaches those customers in production, that great idea that’s somewhere in the software development?

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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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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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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. First, SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. It also means that the price points change with time, and it is critical to the success of your platform to stay well attuned to those changes.

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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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This is a not one-sided convenience to just make life easier for the technology side: it’s a delivery model that structures how resources within the SaaS platform serve your customers. There’s no one-size-fits-all SaaS architecture, so practical strategies of building such frameworks will vary.