Category: SaaS

SaaS Risk and Value Shift

The movement to SaaS specifically, and more broadly “Anything” (X) as a Service (XaaS) is driven by demand side (buyer) forces. In early cases within any industry, the buyer…

xz Marty Abbott

August 2, 2018 · 4 min read

SaaS Leadership Product

The Phases of SaaS Grief

Over a decade of helping on-premises and licensed software companies through the transition to “Something as a Service” – whether that be Software (SaaS), Platform (PaaS),…

xz Marty Abbott

July 24, 2018 · 10 min read

SaaS Product

Factors Driving SaaS and XaaS Adoption

XaaS (e.g. SaaS, PaaS) mass-market adoption is largely a demand-side “pull” of a product through the Technology Adoption Lifecycle (TALC). One of the best books describing…

xz Marty Abbott

July 12, 2018 · 6 min read

SaaS Product

SaaS Principles Part 2

Following our first article on the conflict between licensed products and SaaS solutions, we now present a necessary (but not always sufficient) list of SaaS operating principles.…

xz Marty Abbott

June 29, 2018 · 5 min read

SaaS

SaaS Principles Part 1 - The Conflict between Licensed Software and SaaS

Photo Credit: www.icomputerdenver.comAttempting to migrate on-premises, licensed products to a recurring revenue SaaS (XaaS) solution is perhaps one of the most difficult things…

xz Marty Abbott

June 22, 2018 · 8 min read

Architecture SaaS

Multi-Tenant Defined

Of the many SaaS operating principles, perhaps one of the most misunderstood is the principle of tenancy.Most people have a definition in their mind for the term “multi-tenant”.…

xz Marty Abbott

June 11, 2018 · 4 min read

SaaS Product

The Many Unfortunate Meanings of Cloud

Enough is enough already – stop using the term “Cloud”. Somewhere during the last 20 years, the term “Cloud” started to mean to product offerings what Sriracha and Tabasco…

xz Marty Abbott

June 5, 2018 · 3 min read

SaaS

The Problem with Non-Functional Requirements

Image CreditMany of our clients use the term “Non-Functional Requirements” to group into a basket those portions of their solution that don’t easily fit into method or function-based…

xz Marty Abbott

May 4, 2018 · 3 min read

Architecture SaaS Leadership Organization Process Product

SaaS Migration Challenges

More and more companies are waking up from the 20th century, realizing that their on-premises, packaged, waterfall paradigms no longer play in today’s SaaS, agile world. SaaS…

xz Dave Swenson

March 12, 2018 · 6 min read

Category: SaaS

SaaS Risk and Value Shift

The Phases of SaaS Grief

Factors Driving SaaS and XaaS Adoption

SaaS Principles Part 2

SaaS Principles Part 1 - The Conflict between Licensed Software and SaaS

Multi-Tenant Defined

The Many Unfortunate Meanings of Cloud

The Problem with Non-Functional Requirements

SaaS Migration Challenges

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