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How to Plan, Price and Deliver a Software-as-a-Service Offering

By: Jim Geisman

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Overview: This on-line course is a three-part series meant to help software companies develop a more robust Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering. Each segment focuses on a specific area required for success as a SaaS company. The final segment deals with pricing – an especially troublesome topic for SaaS companies.

Who should view: Members of senior management who want to develop a fuller understanding of what it takes to be a SaaS business as well as other executives who may be considering a transition from a traditional, on-premise model, to SaaS.

Key Learning Items: People who take this course will learn more about Software delivered as a service including:

  • What goes into the decision to have a SaaS offering?
  • What are the operational considerations to deliver a SaaS application?
  • What elements of a pricing model are important
  • What to consider when pricing and packaging a SaaS offering.

Course Outline

Planning a SaaS Business

  • Is the SaaS model right for your company
  • Finding and assessing a market
  • Revenue forecasting
  • Marketing and sales considerations

Delivering on the SaaS Promise

  • Product roadmap and architecture
  • Development, infrastructure and scalability considerations

SaaS Pricing Models

  • Pricing structure vs. price levels
  • Metrics Packaging and licensing
  • Setting a price
  • Discounts and their role in SaaS

PRESENTER:

Jim Geisman, is Founder and Principal of Software Pricing Partners. The firm was started in 1982 and, since 1987, has focused solely on software pricing. (More information can be found at the firm’s website, www.SoftwarePricing.com.)

Since then, Jim has worked with many emerging and established software companies by helping them solve some of their toughest pricing problems. His company is helping a number of established and emerging software companies make the transition to the on-demand (SaaS) pricing model. He has also helped a number of companies price, structure and negotiate “the big deals”.

 

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