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There's a lot of really great SaaS products that get no traction in companies I've worked in. Largely because "control your workflow" (a-la the toyota method)
by dijit 3y ago
There's a lot of really great SaaS products that get no traction in companies I've worked in.
Largely because "control your workflow" (a-la the toyota method) requires that a vendor is unable to change things on your behalf without your knowledge.
"On-prem" is about being permitted to invest your own resources into ensuring that your $thing will work during the hours it needs to work and you can pour as much or as little into the problem as you deem necessary.
If you use a SaaS you must somehow figure out how that factors into their pricing model and it's still largely their whim, and worse: they will still change things without notice.
It's also true that a lot of companies do not assume that the internet is always available.
Getting 100Gb/s to a server room is easy for 500 people in an office building.
But getting 100Gb/s to your SaaS platform might not even be possible without rearchitecting. (IE: Perforce in game dev, usually on-prem.)
- KRAKRISMOTT 3y agoOn prem is easy if you are willing to pay 100K a year. Once 6 figures come into play, any SaaS company would be willing to do on-prem. I find that those complaining about on-prem are mostly small business customers that are more trouble than they are worth. Serious B2B companies won't blink at those prices.
- citrin_ru 3y agoSaaS and on-prem software are very different in how they are developed and require different expertise. Even if you would pay a SaaS company enough so they will be willing to adapt their SaaS to on-prem it will be a mediocre product.
- arccy 3y agotry 10x that if your product is any degree of nontrivial
- marcosdumay 3y agoI've rejected plenty of >100k a year proposals because there wasn't an on-premises alternative. (And also another batch because despite being willing to pay yearly for upgrades and support, there wasn't an option of retaining the license in perpetuity.)