Welcome to our first edition of the Scio SaaS Newsletter. With your input, we hope to make this a practical and informative guide to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and On-Demand Business Best Practices, incorporating insights gathered from our experience building SaaS solutions for clients along with industry highlights from leading practitioners and analysts.
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Haut Tec: SaaS Insights from Scio Consulting
Of the 23 articles we have written for Haut Tec – this one has been the most popular so far. We credit that to both how important the subject is and to how little has been put forward about the metrics that can be used to guide a successful SaaS business. Because of that interest, we’re going to follow up this article with the next installment this month. So – to get up to speed - take a few minutes to join us in this investigation of the data points you need…
This article is number two on our “hit parade” and it continues to generate more interest. Social marketing is a fast growing field, but for those who have not taken the plunge it often sounds like another hype cycle. For Internet entrepreneurs, it is a critical subject to understand and leverage. Take a page from our experience.
Best of SaaS: Industry Insights We Read
It has been difficult for the best-known enterprise brands to move to the “cloud” model and there are few more instructive cases than that of the very company that provides the underpinnings for most of the Internet. Microsoft, SAP and Oracle are also struggling to adjust to the dynamic market changes we’re seeing now. Newer and smaller companies have less legacy and more opportunity than ever before.
Our partners at Apprenda stepped back from the recent shutdown of Coghead and looked at the larger implications of some of the new development “stacks” being offered by Platform as a Service (PaaS) vendors. Platforms can and should be of great value to SaaS developers, but with so many choices, some logic needs to be put into the discussion. This article and our own take on this subject are a good basis for getting your arms around this important technology.
This academic study from UC Berkeley generated a lot of buzz in the past month. One of the most considered and thoughtful came from the GoGrid Blog by Michael Sheehan. The two articles together form useful bookends to the issues and promise of our industry.
Best Regards,
Jeremy Beck
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