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

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SaaS business metrics are not hard to find ; we won’t analyze them in-depth here. As it turns out, SaaS operational platform metrics are also abundant. However, it is still too often the case that business metrics and operations metrics live in parallel universes. We’ve written about this before.

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

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Proven best practices that help both finance & engineering teams Of course, not all customers want to pay for all the features. Billing events and unit metrics The variable cost model of cloud platforms has forever changed how compute resources are bought and paid for and consumed. This is known as a unit metric.

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Understanding Multi-tenancy, the Keystone of SaaS

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Proven best practices that help both finance & engineering teams SaaS multi-tenancy means achieving a reliable level of efficiency and security, delivering an application that is feature-rich and cost-effective. There’s no one-size-fits-all SaaS architecture, so practical strategies of building such frameworks will vary.