Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
The SaaS Era Is Ending - Software’s Next Phase Is Outcome-Centric and Agentic The Signal Is Clear Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently said, "Every product…
We have recently updated our Availability Risk Model. Our previous article was a high level introduction to managing the risk of downtime. With the…
What is Site Reliability Engineering?
What makes products successful? There are many aspects that contribute to the success of a product over time. We can trace back research to several prominent…
When we work with CEOs, CTOs, and CIOs, we frequently get asked these questions:
If your company doesn’t utilize one of the big cloud providers for either IaaS or PaaS as part of product infrastructure, it's only a matter of time. We often…
The Easiest Job
Transforming a traditional on-premises product and company to a SaaS model is currently in vogue and has many broad-reaching benefits for both producers and…
AKF has been kept quite busy over the last decade helping companies move from an on-premises product to a SaaS service - often one of the most difficult…
The movement to SaaS specifically, and more broadly “Anything” (X) as a Service (XaaS) is driven by demand side (buyer) forces. In early cases within any…
Over a decade of helping on-premises and licensed software companies through the transition to “Something as a Service” – whether that be Software (SaaS),…
XaaS (e.g. SaaS, PaaS) mass-market adoption is largely a demand-side “pull” of a product through the Technology Adoption Lifecycle (TALC). One of the best…
