RESOURCES

“When you are running a business, you always want to keep a close eye on whether your company is thriving and profitable. For most companies, the number one metric to track is Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) but because subscription revenue is the key marker of a Software as a Service (SaaS) business, a different metric is needed to grasp the true health of your company. This is why Net Revenue Retention is one of the most important indicators for SaaS companies.”

Where is SaaS going? From smartphones to virtual reality, we have seen technology evolving so much in the past decade. People have accepted new changes in their life and businesses have found solutions to many of their use cases.This has been possible because of the agile and cost-effective cloud system. And that’s why people are expecting more to further innovate their life.

With the popularity of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data automation, more businesses are looking forward to integrating these into their SaaS platform. The aim is to use these developing technologies to make the data more manageable, accurate, and insightful.

“When entrepreneurs are looking for funding options, they are usually not seeking advice such as “crowdfund” or “ask friends and family.” While legitimate funding methods, most companies need something more reliable and in greater amounts than these methods generally provide. At this point, a business seeks more serious financing options from banks, external firms, and even non-profits.”

“One common way for companies to finance a purchase is through debt financing, which has many benefits and risks. In debt financing, a company receives a loan that they make a commitment to repay with some conditions, such as set monthly payments and an interest rate.”

Private equity providers, venture capitalists and investment bankers operate in the same general business climate, working with companies to help provide financing designed to improve operations and spur growth. The three operate along the spectrum of a business life cycle, playing roles in everything from a company’s launch to its initial public offering of stock or acquisition by another company.

The growth of Software as a Service (SaaS) shows no sign of slowing down. For consumers, it can be challenging to understand the many different pricing models. The reason may be that, in this still rather new industry segment, many companies are still trying to understand SaaS pricing models and strategies.

As opposed to traditional software sales, it is not as simple as finding the right per-unit price to optimize sales and profits. Instead, there are multiple pricing strategies and, perhaps even more importantly, several guiding strategies behind them.

When you think of debt financing, you may immediately think of borrowing money from a bank to obtain a bank loan. However, there are many other types of debt financing, depending on the needs of the business and its ability to repay the debt. Each has advantages and disadvantages depending on the riskiness of the business and its stage in the life cycle.

The Software as a Service industry has taken the tech world by storm in recent years and is creating a digital transformation that permanently changes the world of technology and software development.