SaaS Companies Must Adapt to Capitalize on the Cloud
March 20, 2015
Grazed from Huffington Post. Author: Jeff Fernandez.
The rise of cloud computing is arguably the most consequential tech development of the past decade. Businesses now find it cheaper and easier than ever to access scalable, agile processing power and storage, and end users enjoy unprecedented platform flexibility. Software is more responsive, more social, and crucially, more portable than ever.
Meanwhile, developers are gaining new access to high-performance processing just as the diversity of digital consumer devices is about to explode. CES 2015 saw the debut of smart objects that we’ve never seen connected before, including "rings, pendants, jackets, handbags and so on." All of these devices that are part of the so-called Internet of Things, as well as devices like smartphones and tablets, will run cloud-based applications…
The forward-thinking SaaS company needs to design into this flexibility. At Grovo, we experimented quite a bit in designing our own product, which is a cloud-based, mobile-optimized web application with a lot of static and dynamic content. Here are a few guidelines we’ve arrived at through this process, which hopefully will help you capitalize on the cloud computing revolution in building your SaaS product…
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