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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The adoption of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications to help accomplish critical business activities has increased substantially throughout the pandemic. Many were adopted as stopgap measures to ...

The SaaS industry has not fully matured yet. In an already crowded SaaS marketplace, new entrants are constantly emerging. Innovation, deep specialization and affordability are the main drivers for ...