In The Trenches

Migrating Your Software Company from On-Premise to SaaS (Part 1)


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Today’s audio blog is specific to software, and concerns the migration from i) a business model characterized by on-premise hosting and one-time perpetual-use licensing fees, to ii) a new business model characterized by cloud-based hosting and a subscription licensing. This process is generally referred to as the "On-Premise to SaaS Migration".

Most software companies founded over the past fifteen years or so have never known anything other than the latter model, however, for anybody running a company still selling on-premise software under a perpetual-use pricing model (or is considering investing in one) , I'd humbly suggest that you listen to this episode.

In this post, I lean on my first-hand experience in making this transition to describe some of the factors that make it so difficult.  In my next post, I will share with you the tactics and strategies that worked (and didn’t work) for me to overcome some of these challenges, so that you can drastically increase your own odds of success should you decide to make this leap yourself.

Enjoy!

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