By Subraya Mallya
Software-as-a-Service business with all the virtues that it purports also demands that the service provider be agile. Agile not only in terms of the way product is built but delivered and managed. Unlike in the traditional software days, subscription revenue model requires that SaaS solution provider measure every process and continuously adapt based on the [...]
By Subraya Mallya
As SaaS becomes increasingly the preferred way for delivery and consumption for all things software, incumbent on-premise vendors are feeling the heat to come up with their own version of SaaS application. Customers unequivocally convinced of the cost efficiencies of the SaaS model are resenting the hefty support contracts.
The challenge of coming up with a [...]
By Subraya Mallya
Companies large and small added Cloud Computing as an agenda item to every key decision they made around IT last year. As companies continued to combat the budget pressures stemming from the financial downturn the cost-efficiencies delivered by SaaS, PaaS, IaaS are becoming increasing irresistible. These topics are no longer fancy acronyms that are restricted [...]
By Subraya Mallya
2009 was a banner year for SaaS. With all the banter around Cloud Computing as an advancement in technology and it glories bandied around I would still be hard pressed to find a more compelling reason behind the larger success of SaaS – than the distressed economy. Companies with dwindling IT budgets ratcheted up the [...]
By Subraya Mallya
Established companies venturing into SaaS business or newbies starting off as SaaS companies have to deal with a lot of new and evolving challenges. Everything that you can possibly think of is different with SaaS model. To say that it is changing the software business is an understatement.
Starting with delivery model, architecture, sales, support [...]
By Subraya Mallya
SaaS delivery model brings with a variety of benefits to customers. The financial benefits of going with SaaS becomes a key focus point during the Sales cycle. Some are obvious some are not so much. Here are some strategies to adopt to drive home the advantages of SaaS
By Subraya Mallya
As companies continue to adopt SaaS, they need to start thinking about the technology procurement differently. Conducting due diligence on the software vendor should be the foremost consideration.
