A graduate student in Europe doing a thesis on software licensing, bless his heart, writes to inquire about examples from one of my recent blogs on a tango between SaaS and open source. He asks: "I ...

Having worked as a solution architect and designed multiple SaaS applications, I believe many companies have struggled to choose the right SaaS architecture for their product offering. In this article ...

In 1999, Salesforce created the first true software-as-a-service (SaaS) package. Now there are more than 10,000 cloud-based applications aimed at enterprises and SMEs, covering everything from core ...

At Index Ventures, we view the emergence of vertical SaaS (vSaaS) — cloud-based software tailor-made for specific industries — as part of a broader trend of end users increasingly demanding superior ...

Do you know how SaaS applications work? Software as a Service (aka SaaS) eliminates the dependency on local machine installations. Additionally, it doesn’t occupy local storage and is primarily ...

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is the best-known segment of the cloud computing market, largely because it faces the most users: many people will have first-hand experience with cloud-based apps like ...

With the sheer number of SaaS applications used today, organizations are often left with lingering questions. What applications do we even have? Are we actually using them all? Who’s responsible for ...

Imagine managing a large apartment complex that is occupied by digital residents rather than real ones. They all share the same infrastructure, from the plumbing (the network) to the elevator (the ...

As LeanIX was founded in 2012 to deliver an easy-to-use, data-driven tool for managing IT landscapes, Marc Andreessen had just famously coined the phrase, "Software is eating the world." Since then, ...