STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR CLOUD APPLICATIONS
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Become More Customer-Centric in SaaS
A customer-centric approach in SaaS is not just advantageous -- it's essential for sustained success. Prioritizing customers ensures a product-market fit that fuels user engagement and loyalty, leading to higher retention rates and organic growth rates. To create a customer-centric approach within a SaaS company, it's essential to make a customer-first mindset an integral part of your culture. We share five ways to become more customer-centric in SaaS.
10 Data Analytics Problems Your Team Faces
As sports fans, several of us at Webapper have read and appreciate Moneyball by Michael Lewis. This amazing expose from the early days of analytics changed sports forever. With baseball entering playoffs and football season kicking off, analytics tend to come to the forefront of broadcasting. It got us thinking about the common problems that data analytics teams face. Today we're going to look at those issues and talk about how to handle them.
10 Newsworthy AWS Cost Horror Stories
We recently had a wake-up call on AWS costs. As much as we love AWS, you must keep an eye on your monthly bill. Our wake-up call motivated us to think about the ways things spin out of control, which led us to seek out some newsworthy AWS cost horror stories. And as habitual cloud problem solvers, we offer our prescription for managing AWS billing more effectively.
Strategy for Modernizing a SaaS Product
Since it comes up from time to time in our community, we wanted to share a strategy that aims to overhaul and modernize a data-center based SaaS product while prioritizing quality, development velocity, and customer success. By executing this SaaS modernization strategy, your product can transition into a modern, scalable, and customer-centric solution, ensuring its competitiveness for years to come.
22 Ideas to Improve SaaS Customer Retention
Improving customer retention is imperative for SaaS companies. For metrics-driven SaaS companies, retention is a high priority KPI. Focusing on delighting customers and enriching their journey leads to success. We've assembled some straightforward ideas to improve SaaS customer retention.
SaaS Release Management
Seamlessly deploying software updates and new versions is crucial for SaaS companies to be competitive. Release management is the orchestration of building, testing, and deploying software releases. For SaaS companies operating at rapid speed, mastering release management is essential to push frequent upgrades while maintaining quality service.
SaaS Disasters
When SaaS providers make such mistakes, clients suffer -- and they may 'vote with their feet' as a result. We'll explore a few SaaS disasters and offer prescriptions for preventing and remedying them when they occur.
The Importance of Сreating a Great SaaS UI/UX Design
Customer experience is an essential flywheel element for growth in SaaS. The product experience IS the customer experience. Great user experiences drive higher conversions, retention and expansion. A solid UX guides users intuitively, establishes credibility, and builds brand loyalty. Because UX is critical, we share our insights on creating great UI/UX design for SaaS products.
9 Product Challenges for New SaaS Companies
We are connoisseurs of our own SaaS development dog food. -- we practice the methods we prescribe here on our blog for our own SaaS product and for those we build for others. We believe in these methods after seeing them work across a variety of markets & industries. We recently had an interaction with a startup, and we felt obligated to share a list of product challenges for new SaaS companies. As habitual problem solvers, we'll also prescribe what to do about them.
Overcoming Challenges in SaaS Sales Cycles
As a company that works on several SaaS offerings, we're well aware of the immense pressures on SaaS providers. One of the most pressing areas is sales, the lifeblood of the product. Assuming the idea is good, the product works, and marketing has built a pipeline of leads, then it's up to the sales team to bring home the deals. But sometimes it takes time...so let's take a look at SaaS sales cycles and look for ways to overcome obstacles to growth and success.
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