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A retrospective from someone familiar with the SaaS ISV trenches


This post simply serves to provide a link to a post on another site, but I felt it very appropriate to shine the spotlight on a brilliant post by Ben Yoskovitz on Instigatorblog.com entitled ‘Lessons Learned Running A SaaS Business‘. While we tend to focus on the relative “newness” of SaaS, it’s always important […]

How Complex Can SaaS Offerings Get?


It’s common place to equate Software as a Service with CRM, HR, or other “business function” style implementations. Although these implementations are not simple by any means, they generally do not require the computational rigor of an offering that performs complex mathematical analysis or photorealistic 3D rendering. In fact, it’s rare to hear that a […]

SaaS 101: The Drawbacks


A while back Matt wrote an article called “SaaS 101: The Benefits” in which he discussed some of the benefits of the SaaS model for end users and software vendors alike. Of course, where there’s a yin there’s a yang, and so this article (a long time coming, we know) will explore the other side of the coin.
For the Customer & End […]