JT Pedersen
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Look Beyond the Solution—Look at the SaaS VENDOR Too

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Fully evaluating a SaaS service provider requires you look beyond features and benefits, and at the vendor itself. SaaS is as much about relationships and endurance as it is short-term F&B.

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Is It Agile or Software Anthropology?

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The key to success is clear: Smooth, rapid, delivery of a product demands effective, clear, and complete communication between all involved parties. It is better to risk over-communicating than the alternative. And, only through frequent communication can teams hope to adapt to change (they need to know about it).

Maybe we should call these Software Anthropology meetings.

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Don’t Break Your Own Pricing

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One thing I learned early on in my career is (when providing a ‘solution’) to avoid breaking your solution pricing apart. I’ll just touch on two basic reasons in today’s post.

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One Reason, Why SaaS Is Going to Only Grow

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We’re going to see energy costs for data centers start climbing rapidly again—and soon. This means SaaS is going to benefit—no one will want to keep growing their own data center—if they can gain economic benefit by consolidating with other (SaaS) data centers.

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SaaS Cost & Pricing for Existing Businesses

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However you do it, understanding true cost of your business is critical. To do so you need a complete understanding of all the functional (cost) components of your business. And, take into account how your senior-most IT managers (i.e. CFO and CIO) view IT. Does SaaS = IT = SaaS, or no?