SaaS

Estimating Availability - Four 9s is the Ceiling

Our updated Availability Risk Model identified many risk drivers. The Risk tree showed components, but not the math to estimate downtime. We will highlight some aspects of the…

Phillip Seawright

March 7, 2024 · 8 min read

Architecture SaaS Process

Drivers of Downtime - a.k.a. Availability Risk

We have recently updated our Availability Risk Model. Our previous article was a high level introduction to managing the risk of downtime. With the proliferation of…

Phillip Seawright

March 4, 2024 · 4 min read

Architecture SaaS Leadership Organization CEO Guides

How will an Interim CTO benefit my product and engineering team?

Absent a CTO that knows how to lead and operate a product engineering shop, the team’s ability to innovate at an acceptable velocity is unlikely. The Chief Technology Officer…

Dave Berardi

May 24, 2023 · 4 min read

SaaS Product

Defining Platform

As with the word “Cloud”, the word “Platform” is an over-used and far too often underdefined word within our industry (comprised of companies that build technology products…

Marty Abbott

August 26, 2021 · 5 min read

SaaS Leadership Product

Why tech and product leaders need to think about gross margins

Image Used by Permission from StockSnap from PixabayThe importance of gross marginGross margin is a key business measure that should be regularly assessed as part of CTOs’and…

Tanya Cordrey

July 8, 2020 · 6 min read

SaaS Leadership

Cloud Software – Will I save costs? It’s all about Optionality and Time to Market

When we work with CEOs, CTOs, and CIOs, we frequently get asked these questions:- Is moving to the cloud cheaper? - Are there real cost savings (of moving to the cloud)? - Can…

Phillip Seawright

May 12, 2020 · 4 min read

Architecture SaaS

Migrating To The Cloud: Lift and Shift Versus Cloud Native

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 find our clients…

Dave Berardi

August 20, 2019 · 3 min read

SaaS

The Easiest and Hardest Jobs in Software Companies

The Easiest JobHands down, the easiest job in any company that produces software for on-premises delivery is the sales job. Everything is magically aligned to make this job “easy”…

Marty Abbott

July 31, 2019 · 4 min read

SaaS Organization Process Security

Transforming to SaaS is not just a technology change

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 consumers of services.…

AKF

June 19, 2019 · 4 min read

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The AKF Difference

During the last 12 years, many prospective clients have asked us some variation of the following questions: “What makes you different?”, “Why should we consider hiring you?”,…

Marty Abbott

December 4, 2018 · 4 min read

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SaaS

Estimating Availability - Four 9s is the Ceiling

Drivers of Downtime - a.k.a. Availability Risk

How will an Interim CTO benefit my product and engineering team?

Defining Platform

Why tech and product leaders need to think about gross margins

Cloud Software – Will I save costs? It’s all about Optionality and Time to Market

Migrating To The Cloud: Lift and Shift Versus Cloud Native

The Easiest and Hardest Jobs in Software Companies

Transforming to SaaS is not just a technology change

The AKF Difference

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