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Very interesting perspective. Ran into the same issues where Salesforce was charging us by the number of columns we had that ended up forcing the team to overlo

Very interesting perspective. Ran into the same issues where Salesforce was charging us by the number of columns we had that ended up forcing the team to overload a column with a JSON object so we could get it to work without overpaying. Integration and maintenance turned out it be a downright nightmare. Would be interested to hear various pricing models to understand the pros/cons for each especially in the logging/analytics space. Does per storage, per event, per user make sense in certain cases?

nitrogen 6y ago
For things that are directly generating revenue, it makes sense to have per-X pricing because it aligns your vendors' interests with your own. In that case, you want to incentivize the vendor to maximize your usage, because that usage is making you money.
beckingz 6y ago
I have lived through this same thing with Salesforce. A brutal experience.
supernovae 6y ago
I hate to break it to ya, but if you do cheats like this when you use reliable off the shelf COTS solutions, imagine the shortcuts they're going to do if/when they try it do this themselves. Salesforce isn't cheap, but its not exactly expensive either. However, with this short sighted shortcut you did, you certainly cost your company big. That data is useless. If you upgrade, transition, migrate you now have to spend employee time fixing what was a fixed cost. Human time is expensive. But what is more expensive is putting artificial costs where they don't need to be.
- tixocloud 6y ago
  Completely agree. Btw, the abov example wasn’t my company. The CEO just didn’t want to spend. He was also a huge proponent of building everything in-house so we ended up tons of customized software that nobody knew how it ran when people started to leave. The company’s growth eventually stalled and was acquired. Shame because we had some brilliant engineers.

nitrogen 6y ago

For things that are directly generating revenue, it makes sense to have per-X pricing because it aligns your vendors' interests with your own. In that case, you want to incentivize the vendor to maximize your usage, because that usage is making you money.

beckingz 6y ago

I have lived through this same thing with Salesforce. A brutal experience.

supernovae 6y ago

I hate to break it to ya, but if you do cheats like this when you use reliable off the shelf COTS solutions, imagine the shortcuts they're going to do if/when they try it do this themselves. Salesforce isn't cheap, but its not exactly expensive either. However, with this short sighted shortcut you did, you certainly cost your company big. That data is useless. If you upgrade, transition, migrate you now have to spend employee time fixing what was a fixed cost. Human time is expensive. But what is more expensive is putting artificial costs where they don't need to be.

tixocloud 6y ago
Completely agree. Btw, the abov example wasn’t my company. The CEO just didn’t want to spend. He was also a huge proponent of building everything in-house so we ended up tons of customized software that nobody knew how it ran when people started to leave. The company’s growth eventually stalled and was acquired. Shame because we had some brilliant engineers.