It’s become pretty clear in the last couple of years that we are heading irrevocably toward a cloud-dominated future in the software business. The evidence is irrefutable. To attempt to get a traditionally licensed PC or enterprise software business funded by an institutional investor would be a suicide mission these days. Whether it’s SaaS, PaaS, […]
Selling SaaS through the VAR Channel
The move toward Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has been the strongest trend in the software business in recent memory. It changes the software business model in a number of fundamental ways. For the purposes of this article, I’m assuming the reader has a basic understanding of the SaaS business model. I’m also going to assume a basic […]
The Cloud Computing and SaaS Trend
Cloud computing and the related SaaS, PaaS and IaaS have entered the mainstream of the software business. In my consulting practice I am very involved in software startup activity, and most new software companies that I see today is being built on cloud-based business model. The cloud is all the rage–so much so that it […]