Security
Open Source Software as a malware “on ramp”
Open Source Software (OSS) is an efficient means to building out solutions rapidly with high quality. You utilize crowdsourced design, development and…
Growth Blog
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Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
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SaaS
SaaS Risk and Value Shift
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…
SaaS
The Phases of SaaS Grief
Over a decade of helping on-premises and licensed software companies through the transition to “Something as a Service” – whether that be Software (SaaS),…
Architecture
AKF Scale Cube: Ze Case for Z Axis
Contemplating how to scale your website is not often a paramount concern in the early days when the focus is on time to market and core functionality. Growth…
Organization
5 Focuses for a Better Security Culture
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…
SaaS
Factors Driving SaaS and XaaS Adoption
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…
Organization
People Due Diligence
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…
Process
Agile and Dealing With The Cone of Uncertainty
The Leap of Faith
Architecture
Monitoring the Good, the Bad, the Ugly for Improved Fault Detection
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…
Organization
Marriage counseling for technology and business partners!
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…
Leadership
Managing Risk
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…
SaaS
SaaS Principles Part 2
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…