Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
AKF has been kept quite busy over the last decade helping companies move from an on-premises product to a SaaS service - often one of the most difficult…
Open Source Software (OSS) is an efficient means to building out solutions rapidly with high quality. You utilize crowdsourced design, development and…
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…
Over a decade of helping on-premises and licensed software companies through the transition to “Something as a Service” – whether that be Software (SaaS),…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
