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

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First, SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. 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. Customer-centric software delivery SaaS sets solving customer problems as its north star.

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

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First: SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. Put another way, the user model describes the “who” of what your software does. The simplifying power of the MVC software design pattern makes it tempting to assume that SaaS and web application development is no more than a web-based version of a 3-tier stack.

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

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First, SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. 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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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. Smart software development is driven by an actionable bias for paying it forward.

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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).