Category Archives: SaaS

Economics of SaaS

Attended the SaaS Economic Summit last week and there were some interesting sessions that talked about the economics of SaaS.
Lauren Kelley, CEO, OPEXEngine presented some operating benchmarks on SaaS companies that was aggregated from data OPEXEngine collected from SaaS & non-SaaS companies. Some of the key points from her presentation:
She quoted Will Price’s data summarizing [...]

To SaaS or not to SaaS

One of the other interesting conversations I had while at SaaSCon was with couple of gentlemen, one from a company that offers quality process documentation solutions and the other from a leading investment banking financial applications software maker.
In the case of the quality process documentation company, they went from an on-premise model to a [...]

SaaS Profitability & Globalization

One of my current areas of focus is in SaaS Product & Solutions Engineering for ISVs and Enterprises and I attended the SaaScon 2008 conference in Santa Clara. Attended the first day and I found the session by Bruce Richardson, Chief Research Officer, AMR Research titled Balancing Customer Acquisition Costs and Elusive Profitability. He presented [...]