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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

CloudGeometry

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. and onboarding new customers. DevOps transformation! Containers!

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

CloudGeometry

First: SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. 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. How much should each get?

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

CloudGeometry

First, SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. Their conclusion: Delivering software quickly, reliably, and safely is at the heart of technology transformation and organizational performance. When tenant context is built in, from the outset of onboarding, you can evaluate users’ actions directly.

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Understanding Multi-tenancy, the Keystone of SaaS

CloudGeometry

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.

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

CloudGeometry

First, SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. This has consequences both for the cost of onboarding a customer, as well as the cost of maintaining the customer during the discovery period. When developing a SaaS product plan, it’s important to recognize two foundational principles.