Category: product

Key Differences between Due Diligence for IT and Due Diligence for Product Technology

The two most common types of technology due diligence requests we see at AKF are Product Technology Due DiligenceInformation Technology, or IT, Due Diligence.Both types are very…

Roger Andelin

June 28, 2019 · 4 min read

Architecture Technical Diligence Process Product

What's the difference between VMs & Containers?

VMs vs ContainersInefficiency and down time have traditionally kept CTO’s and IT decision makers up at night. Now, new challenges are emerging driven by infrastructure inflexibility…

Eric Arrington

May 29, 2019 · 8 min read

Product

Why is launching an MVP so difficult?

Have you ever had that feeling of not knowing where to start? For writers, it’s called writer’s block. Painters call it blank-canvas syndrome. Entrepreneurs & technologist…

AKF

April 29, 2019 · 4 min read

Product

What is Latency and How Much Is It Costing You

Time it takes to boil an egg: 720,000 millisecondsAverage time in line at the supermarket: 240,000 millisecondsTime it takes to brush your teeth: 120,000 millisecondsTime it takes…

Eric Arrington

April 19, 2019 · 8 min read

Architecture Technical Diligence SaaS Leadership Organization Process Product Big Data Security

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

Architecture Organization Process Product

The Importance of QA

“Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It’s what the customer gets out of it.” Peter DruckerThe Importance of QAHigh levels of quality are essential…

AKF

November 20, 2018 · 7 min read

Technical Diligence Leadership Process Product Security

Are you compromised?

It’s important to acknowledge that a core competency for hackers is hiding their tracks and maintaining dormancy for long periods of time after they’ve infiltrated an environment.…

AKF

September 14, 2018 · 2 min read

Technical Diligence SaaS Process Product 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 validation to conveniently…

AKF

August 21, 2018 · 2 min read

SaaS Leadership Product

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 industry, the buyer…

Marty Abbott

August 2, 2018 · 4 min read

SaaS Leadership Product

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), Platform (PaaS),…

Marty Abbott

July 24, 2018 · 10 min read

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Category: product

Key Differences between Due Diligence for IT and Due Diligence for Product Technology

What's the difference between VMs & Containers?

Why is launching an MVP so difficult?

What is Latency and How Much Is It Costing You

The AKF Difference

The Importance of QA

Are you compromised?

Open Source Software as a malware “on ramp”

SaaS Risk and Value Shift

The Phases of SaaS Grief

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