Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
Security culture is one of the hardest aspects of security to get right. Unfortunately, it is also the most important thing for security that needs to be done…
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…
Most companies do a thorough job of financial due diligence when they acquire other companies. But all too often, dealmakers simply miss or underestimate the…
The Leap of Faith
AKF often recommends to our clients the adoption of business metric monitoring – the use of high-level user activity or transaction patterns that can often…
AKF often finds itself required to act as a marriage counselor trying to improve the relationship between technology and business ‘spouses’. In fact, we rarely…
The simplest definition of risk is the probability an incident occurs times the impact of the incident. The higher this number is, the higher the risk. With…
Following our first article on the conflict between licensed products and SaaS solutions, we now present a necessary (but not always sufficient) list of SaaS…
In our technical due diligence reviews we conduct for investment firms, we see five common mistakes by both young startups and in well-seasoned companies…
For many companies the thought of being audited is never a fun one. Especially when most audits are focused on documentation that is slow to react to an…
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In my short tenure at AKF, I have found the topic of Stored Procedures (SPROCs) to be provocatively polarizing. As we conduct a technical due diligence with a…
