Understanding the True Cost of Becoming a Sustained Market Leader in the Software Business Through Software as a Service.

 

Is This Paper For Me?

This paper is most applicable to software companies exploring Software as a Service (SaaS) as a potential delivery paradigm, or for software companies that have settled on the SaaS paradigm and are looking to understand the tradeoffs associated with different approaches to building a SaaS offering and business.

The paper is most applicable to the business constituents within software companies who have the ability to interpret high level discussions regarding software architectures and their impact on business metrics such as cost of goods sold (COGS), or technical audiences within a software company responsible for strategic product direction.

Topics Covered Include:

• What it Means to be a SaaS Provider

• Sustained Market Leadership as a SaaS Provider

• Understanding What's Important

• Single Instance Multi-tenancy and Juggling Competing Factors

• Achieving an Architecture for Sustained Market Leadership

• Building Single Instance Multi-tenancy

• Leveraging a PaaS Offering

• Building on Advanced Cloud Middleware