The SaaS subscription business model trades high upfront (license) payments for a greater Customer Lifetime Value. This increases the SaaS vendors overall value resulting company valuations over twice those of Licensed Software companies of the same revenue (Software Equity Group 2013). The transition from Licensed Software Read More
Conclusion In this seven part series, I have described barriers removed and tipping points reached that have resulted in the acceleration of SaaS products being funded and developed in 2012. Customer attitudes have changed making them comfortable with SaaS, and in fact demanding SaaS products. Customers Read More
“Every generation a chaotic event occurs reordering the players and their equity value.” Jim Armstrong, Managing Director, Clearstone Venture Partners on SaaS Justin Perreault of Commonwealth Capital Ventures says SaaS, along with developments in mobility and other corners of the cloud market are driving a Read More
We are at the tipping point of server-side capabilities for SaaS that will enable an explosion of SaaS development. The upsurge of Server-side enablers, in aggregate, will knock down many barriers to building great SaaS applications enabling more and richer SaaS applications appearing in 2013. Read More
Gartner predicted cloud growth would be 21% percent in 2011. IDC predicts SaaS growth at 25.3% CAGR through 2014. Forester predicts SaaS will account for 26% of the package software market by 2016, while Deloitte forecasts that only 4.3% of On-Premise software spending will be Read More
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