Guest post by Patrick Jobin of StoragePipe
When talking about the benefits of SaaS, the conversation usually revolves around TCO savings, improved security & convenience, or new features & capabilities.
But there is another major SaaS benefit that often gets overlooked.
The recent Gulf oil spill has raised renewed awareness for the environment. People are now thinking harder [...]
Bessemer’s Top 10 Laws for Being “SaaS-y” Rule # 8 states “By definition, your sales prospects are online - Savvy online marketing is a core competence (sometimes the only one) of every successful SaaS business. “
(BTW, read the other laws as well - we will have another post on interpreting the other laws soon)
SaaS vendors [...]
Last year when we were launching DeskAway we were in a dilemma of sorts - should we price the service per user per month or should we price is per account per month? We wanted our pricing strategy to be very competitive and not come in the way of user adoption. Being a collaborative service, [...]
According to InformationWeek, “On-demand software startup Workday has clinched its biggest deal yet — and the largest known in the software industry — to provide an electronics company with a human-capital management software service for 200,000 employees. It’s the strongest proof yet that large companies have started to embrace the software-as-a-service delivery model.”
This is pretty [...]
SaaS is a new model of how software is delivered. SaaS refers to software that is accessed via a web browser and is paid on a subscription basis (monthly or yearly). Different from the traditional model where a customer buys a license to software and assumes ownership for its maintenance and installation, SaaS presents significant [...]
