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

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There are at least three foundational dimensions that translate your business assumptions into critical technical solution inputs: User Model Monetization Measurement In this blog series, we explore how these three dimensions figure into key technical recommendations which enable scale in pursuit of SaaS business growth.

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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. Modernizing your app is not a destination; it’s a journey.

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

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In this blog series, we explore how these three dimensions figure into key technical recommendations which enable scale in pursuit of SaaS business growth. 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.

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

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In this blog series, we explore how these three dimensions figure into key technical recommendations which enable scale in pursuit of SaaS business growth. We begin by taking the measure of three foundational dimensions: (1) User Model , (2) Monetization , and (3) Measurement. Part 2: Monetization Saying “SaaS = monetization” is redundant.

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

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Stories evolve as customers use the software, as new technologies emerge, as market behaviors come and go. Smart software development is driven by an actionable bias for paying it forward. It’s probably the single biggest technical-debt leverage exercise in modern software history. Software-defined anything! ) Containers!

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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. It is the secret to effective tiering and scaling. 2020 left no doubt: the growth of cloud computing is firmly grounded in the SaaS business model.