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When developing a SaaS product plan, it's important to recognize two foundational principles. First, SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. Second, there is no one-size-fits-all SaaS architecture (the second principle is a… Continue Reading
When developing a SaaS product plan, it's important to recognize two foundational principles. First, SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. Second, there is no one-size-fits-all SaaS architecture (the second principle is a… Continue Reading
Before you shout "Digital Transformation" in a crowded marketplace, it's important to recognize two foundational principles in developing a SaaS product plan. First: SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. Second (a corollary of… Continue Reading
There’s a feature arms race underway, and SaaS is fueling the fire. The quality of collaboration in software development is measured by a direct line of sight into the customer experience. Read more about this… Continue Reading
A big side effect of the world's new focus on work from home? Collaboration delivers leverage. Those of us who do software for a living are quite fortunate. Many of the habits we've learned in… Continue Reading
I suspect that when the legendary Ward Cunningham coined the term "technical debt", it did not take him long to realize he'd created a monster: "I am in favor of writing code to reflect your… Continue Reading
In SaaS, technical debt isn’t a bug, it's a feature – it’s a feature of creativity and velocity. People are writing more code to solve more problems than ever before. Of course, they are not… Continue Reading
For chronic disease sufferers – often already under medical care – data-driven personalized medicine provides a promising new application for tailored therapies and disease management. Today, the right combination of technology infrastructure, advanced AI technology… Continue Reading
If your plan for cloud computing is to simply “move to the cloud”, it's time to rethink your plan. Success is not about “moving”; it's about changing to cloud computing. Everyone wants the business and… Continue Reading
Are your cloud and application stack well architected? Probably not. And that’s OK. Cloud architects inside Amazon originated the AWS Well-Architected Framework (aka "Well-Architected"), and announced it in 2015. It aspired to set guidelines and… Continue Reading
Almost any piece of industrial equipment today produces its own rich and steady stream of data. Digital diagnostics embedded in devices help with on-site troubleshooting when dispatching a trained local technician. But what about extending… Continue Reading
Modern software development runs at a faster pace than ever before. As cloud computing divides winners and losers in the data-driven marketplace, converging applications and their data with the infrastructure they run on makes more… Continue Reading
This is true: big data is cheaper and faster, but harder; data scientists have the skills, and are in great demand. True, but only partially. Yes, data scientists make a huge difference, but if only they have the… Continue Reading