SaaS(Software as a service) is a buzz word that makes tons of money in the software industry. A fully capable platform that can provide your customers the services they want and constantly send releases without any downtime is really a smart way to build a business. We have been developing SaaS for many clients through out the years and let us discuss some insights on building successful SaaS platforms.

First, let’s take a look at what are the main benefits that we can get by adhering SaaS concepts.

Cost, Scalability and Flexibility

By implementing SaaS you can eliminate need for expensive hardware and infrastructure and go with Cloud Providers such as AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. The immense capability we get from these providers are go to market ready frameworks and on demand services which reduce costs of development, deployment and maintenance to a minimum.

When cloud gave us elastic resources which could horizontally scale, it was the greatest superpower for the startups who could efficiently manage limited resources.

With that it enabled scalability and flexibility to grow or break and change as fast as possible. And all of this at the tip of a computer with an internet connection, which enabled the remote recruiting and running SaaS platforms which cheapest labour costs possible.

Rapid Iterations and Time-to-Market

When starting a business, it could a process to exactly hit the bullseye of the target market and the concept that you are building.

With SaaS solutions you can quickly build and deploy to market and make sure it is generally available to all the users. Thus enables you to beat the time to market for your software features than any other software development method.

Also you can quickly iterate and change on top of your product without any downtime as you can perform rollbacks or deployments fast with CI/CD frameworks.

Data Analytics and Insights

Analytics are the most important feedback that you quantise and project to see the road ahead for your software products. SaaS applications can provide real-time data analytics, helping businesses make informed decisions based on current data.

Also advanced analytics tools can offer you insights into customer behaviour, market trends and operational efficiency for you to build your road map to cover market gaps of your business.

With many tools which are free at small volumes, you can begin to see customer journeys and take business decisions easily without any doubt.

Some businesses that can be easily build with SaaS

Customer Relationship Management CRM

If you have ever come across SaaS giants like Salesforce and HubSpot, you may have the first hand experience how SaaS can revolutionise the industry of CRM. With SaaS you can manage customer interactions, sales pipelines and marketing campaigns efficiently. Also buy developing enterprise platform which can be customized in many ways, SaaS will provide you all the flexibility to perform business operations for different CRM aspects easily without worrying about infrastructure and services.

Human Resource and Project Management

Today HR solutions like Workday and BambooHR is becoming industry giants by streamlining recruitment, onboarding, payroll and employ management. It is the easiest way as HR managers can efficiently work with these tools and as it is available at your laptop or phone, managing people has never been easy like this before.

Also Project management platforms like Atlasian, Asana, Trello has also made our life easier by offering variety of tools to customize to your need. As atlassian being a hosted service and cloud service later, we can easily see where the industry is heading.

E-commerce

With revolution of commerce with internet, it has become a very easy option to sell and buy products without a physical shop. This has become a very important point after COVID where people could not visit outside due to protocols. With that industry has grown 5x times all over the world and tendency towards e-commerce is growing day by day.

Platforms like Shopify, BigCommerce are constantly delivering shops to every businesses which are growing in e-commerce. This growth won’t be possible in these heights if weren’t for development of SaaS and Cloud Providers.

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