Comments on: SaaS Business Profitability - Build for the long tail and get the rest for free (almost) http://www.saasblogs.com/2008/10/13/saas-business-profitability-build-for-the-long-tail-and-get-the-rest-for-free-almost/ Understanding the Software as a Service Revolution Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:05:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Frank Bennett http://www.saasblogs.com/2008/10/13/saas-business-profitability-build-for-the-long-tail-and-get-the-rest-for-free-almost/#comment-74417 Frank Bennett Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:35:18 +0000 http://www.saasblogs.com/?p=224#comment-74417 Reality comes home to the challenges facing SaaS vendors and your portrayal is biblical in insight. It would be interesting to know how many SaaS vendors have entered and since exited the market because they could not meet their own opex from cash flow. Bar a few big players not many have a war chest of cash to stay the course particularly as the market slows with credit crunchiness and customers delay purchases. Reality comes home to the challenges facing SaaS vendors and your portrayal is biblical in insight. It would be interesting to know how many SaaS vendors have entered and since exited the market because they could not meet their own opex from cash flow. Bar a few big players not many have a war chest of cash to stay the course particularly as the market slows with credit crunchiness and customers delay purchases.

]]> By: Joanna Lees-Castro http://www.saasblogs.com/2008/10/13/saas-business-profitability-build-for-the-long-tail-and-get-the-rest-for-free-almost/#comment-68510 Joanna Lees-Castro Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:03:25 +0000 http://www.saasblogs.com/?p=224#comment-68510 Excellent article. Really ties into the need for software companies to focus on reducing all costs also in the face of the current economic challenges. Joanna Excellent article. Really ties into the need for software companies to focus on reducing all costs also in the face of the current economic challenges.

Joanna

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]]> By: Chaotic Flow » SaaS Business Profitability - Build for the long tail and get the rest for free (almost) http://www.saasblogs.com/2008/10/13/saas-business-profitability-build-for-the-long-tail-and-get-the-rest-for-free-almost/#comment-68397 Chaotic Flow » SaaS Business Profitability - Build for the long tail and get the rest for free (almost) Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:53:39 +0000 http://www.saasblogs.com/?p=224#comment-68397 [...] Most SaaS businesses embrace the idea that Web-based delivery and a multi-tenant architecture create economies-of-scale and lower TCO. Hence, they price their annual subscriptions at 1/5 to 1/20 the cost of an enterprise license. However, these savings only occur in R&D and IT infrastructure. Achieving a stable, profitable long term cost structure requires proportionate expense reductions in sales, marketing and support operations.…But how? [...] […] Most SaaS businesses embrace the idea that Web-based delivery and a multi-tenant architecture create economies-of-scale and lower TCO. Hence, they price their annual subscriptions at 1/5 to 1/20 the cost of an enterprise license. However, these savings only occur in R&D and IT infrastructure. Achieving a stable, profitable long term cost structure requires proportionate expense reductions in sales, marketing and support operations.…But how? […]

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]]> By: preetam mukherjee http://www.saasblogs.com/2008/10/13/saas-business-profitability-build-for-the-long-tail-and-get-the-rest-for-free-almost/#comment-68161 preetam mukherjee Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:31:19 +0000 http://www.saasblogs.com/?p=224#comment-68161 Looks like I owe you guys a diagram. Need another day, please!! -p Looks like I owe you guys a diagram.

Need another day, please!!

-p

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