SaaS Blogs

I recently read and commented on a good post over at Unreasonablemen.net titled “How Do SaaS companies make money“. In summary, the article highlights the fact that SaaS companies have an alarmingly low EBIT, high marketing spend rate, and no mechanism for getting “upgrade fees.” While this is all true, I wouldn’t use the word alarming. In the comments […]

The SaaS world is abuzz around Google yet again with yesterday’s news that Google will acquire on-demand communications security firm Postini Solutions for $625 million.  The acquisition is aimed at bolstering enterprise security and management confidence in the Google Apps online suite, and seems to be a direct mirror of Microsoft’s Exchange Hosted Services strategy which was […]

SaaS is generally approached from the standpoint that a SaaS provider will write an application and sell it as a service to other businesses. This provides the many well known business driver benefits to those who use SaaS. Additionally, it is also well understood that the provider generates certain efficiencies via the centralization of the […]