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If this is true then it's eyeopening. I often wonder, who actually uses SaaS?
by keepquestioning 4y ago
If this is true then it's eyeopening. I often wonder, who actually uses SaaS?
- lazide 4y agoQuite a few companies do, if the SaaS has value to them. The challenge is, which SaaS companies have real value, and which ones have been working hard to LOOK like they have value? In the wise words of Mr. Buffett - "It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who has been swimming naked." Well, the tide is going out. Time to grab some popcorn!
- ajb 4y agoThere are plenty of small companies without their own IT staff, for whom the low onboarding friction of SaaS is very attractive. Other startups use them because they too are small companies, not because they are startups.
- liquidgecka 4y agoThere are some problems that are just easier to offboard, even for huge companies. Very few companies at any level run their own email, LDAP, even HR packages these days. That's all SaaS now. But there are other problems that are just easier to outsource too. Who runs a ticketing system inhouse these days? Who runs chat services like slack inhouse? SaaS is entrenched and not going anywhere. The problem is what people think companies will pay for and how much. I will happily pay for a service to manage a deploy pipeline but one of the ones I talked to recently was going to charge $80 per POD in our line cluster. That would have easily made them a 6 figure SaaS for us which isn't going to fly, meanwhile we pay for somebody to host our monitoring dashboards because it's only $1k or so total a month.
- roflyear 4y agoOf course it isn't true. SaaS is used by people who don't want to build a product.