How to SaaS-Enable Your Application in Six Weeks
June 25, 2013
Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Jiten Patil.
The world of software applications and products is moving from on-premise to a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. Perpetual licence earnings are shrinking, while subscription revenue including SaaS is growing increasingly fast and at a steady pace. According to a recent PWC report, subscription revenue (including SaaS) is set to grow at a 17.5% compounded annual rate, reaching 24% of total software revenue by 2016. Approximately 40% of the turnover of 10 of the top 100 software companies globally is generated by the SaaS service.
Gartner predicts that 77% of companies plan to increase their spending on SaaS in the next two years. So the big question is, how can you (as a software application or product vendor) quickly move to SaaS, test it and ride the wave of opportunity before losing your specific competitive advantage to some of the fast-progressing SaaS vendors like Workday, Oracle, Saleforce.com, SAP, Microsoft, Intuit, and Zuora…
The next question is – what should one do in order to SaaS-enable an existing application or a product? Having seen many product teams struggle for months with just putting together the basic understanding and plan, here are some ideas on how to think about and devise a detailed SaaS-enablement strategy from an engineering perspective. These ideas are based on my various assessments and conversations with product owners and solution architects…
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