Let’s get Saasy

The three most common ways to eat dinner are

…Cook at home

…Order takeout

…Dine at a restaurant.

The level of skill, supplies, and physical space required varies with each option.

Cooking at home requires I have a kitchen, ingredients, and time. Grabbing takeout on the way home from work only requires a table and silverware from me. Dining in at a restaurant only demands I bring a wallet and appetite.

The dominance of cloud platforms in recent decades has introduced three main flavors of cloud services. Iaas (infrastructure as a service), Paas (platform as a service), or Saas (software as a service). Each requires different amounts of skill, expense, and maintenance.

Iaas is cooking at home

Paas is ordering takeout.

Saas is dining out.

As technology improves, the cost decreases and quality increase dramatically for these cloud services. As a result, Saas solutions dominate the market.

It’s a rare person who prefers eating at home if the cost and quality were better at a restaurant.

The dramatic shift from Iaas to Saas is another key trend closing the gap between Data teams and Business teams. With Saas solutions, data teams spend far less time grocery shopping and chopping vegetables.

Instead, they can focus on crafting a great menu and plating beautiful dishes for their business teams.

Doing that well requires knowing exactly what the business team is craving to eat for dinner.

It was great to see you today,

Sawyer

p.s I love helping teams build their data and business skills. I work with customers to build workshops to equip your team to excel in these areas. Check out The Data (Work)shop to learn more. Reply if you want to book a workshop for your team.