Companies fret as costs soar for software subscriptions (2019)

Re:Companies fret as costs soar for software subscriptions (... by virgilp on Thursday March 05, 2020 @01:06PM (#22496195)

Nothing complicated about it. You start with SaaS, validate it's a good tool to have/actually used, evaluate monthly costs vs opportunity costs, build your own when/if it makes sense.

The slightly more complicated question is "do we invest in optimizing SaaS costs/utilization? Or use those resources to start building our own?". But even for this question the right answer is usually fairly obvious.

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Re:Companies fret as costs soar for software subscriptions (... by aguyfromnb on Thursday March 05, 2020 @01:28PM (#22496439)

>Nothing complicated about it.

If it was so easy, why are the companies in the article "fretting"? Because putting values on "good", "opportunity" and "makes sense" (not even counting the fact you have no control over the SaaS raising prices or going out of business in the future) is harder than we can spend $400/month or $50/month.

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Re:Companies fret as costs soar for software subscriptions (... by fhbdukfrh on Thursday March 05, 2020 @01:10PM (#22496258)

It is complicated at scale and over time though. Look at Saas infrastructure: How you do it as you grow constantly changes the results of any evaluation.

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