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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 over time will eventually…

Greg Fennewald

· 2 min read

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 right. It is so important…

AKF

· 5 min read

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 significance of people…

AKF

· 4 min read

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 books describing…

Marty Abbott

· 6 min read

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 provide early warning…

AKF

· 4 min read

Agile and Dealing With The Cone of Uncertainty

The Leap of FaithWhen we embark on building SaaS product that will delight customers we are taking a leap of faith. We often don’t even know whether or not the outcomes targeted…

Dave Berardi

· 5 min read

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 find the relationship…

AKF

· 7 min read

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 operating principles.…

Marty Abbott

· 6 min read

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 the identification…

AKF

· 3 min read

Tech Due Diligence - 5 Common Security Mistakes

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 alike:Lack of Security…

Pete Ferguson

· 2 min read

Separation of Duties in an Agile Environment

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 ever-changing environment…

AKF

· 3 min read

SaaS Principles Part 1 - The Conflict between Licensed Software and SaaS

Photo Credit: www.icomputerdenver.comAttempting to migrate on-premises, licensed products to a recurring revenue SaaS (XaaS) solution is perhaps one of the most difficult things…

Marty Abbott

· 8 min read

Eight Reasons To Avoid Stored Procedures

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 fairly new upstart…

Pete Ferguson

· 3 min read

Multi-Tenant Defined

Of the many SaaS operating principles, perhaps one of the most misunderstood is the principle of tenancy.Most people have a definition in their mind for the term “multi-tenant”.…

Marty Abbott

· 4 min read

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