If you have anything to do with creating or selling software, you have probably come across tools that advertise themselves as embedded or no-code tools. Each has their purpose with corresponding pros and cons for use by SaaS software development teams. The question is do you need to choose? Can they co-exist? First, let me define what I mean by embedded and no-code.
What is Embedded Software?
Embedded software is prebuilt solutions that perform specific functions. It can be added, or “embedded,” into other software to extend its functionality. Embedded software is usually purchased from a third-party, saving the time…
Over time, software products have improved; they offer a more intuitive user interface, better user experience, improved performance, and lower entry barriers, partially thanks to the modern cloud technologies/platforms.
In the “old days”, software applications could offer a table or an export to Excel capability and that was the whole analytic part of the application — but that’s not acceptable anymore.
Do what you do best and integrate for the rest.
The smartest are the ones that know their core competency and concentrate their resources there.
Modern software architecture makes it easier to integrate with and embed other technologies. SaaS…
My company, Qrvey, recently announced we raised $8.5 million in funding from our investors. For startups and smaller companies, money is like oxygen. There’s no life without it. Yet, investment money itself does not create success. I have personally seen other companies continue to bring in more and bigger funding and still not be able to create a meaningful business.
First and foremost, money aside, I believe what makes a winning business is the ability to continually find new customers and make them successful. Having capital is just one out of four factors in making that happen. The other three…
For as long as any of us can remember and even beyond that, products in any given market continually get better, faster, and cheaper. It’s the natural evolution of any marketplace and keeps the market alive. Sometimes buyers expect or demand improvements and sometimes improvements come about on their own as a result of revolutionary changes that make things better, faster, or cheaper, especially in technology. Continuous improvement is good, but many companies often get stuck in that groove at the risk of missing out on innovation.
Markets, in general, are efficient at meeting buyers’ needs and each product has…
Product life cycles are an interesting thing to examine. There are points at which you begin to see a shift toward the next generation. For software, that is often in response to changes in technology. What is fascinating to see is that often, there can be big changes “under the hood” even though the user experience remains the same.
There are three signals we’re seeing today that are pointing toward a major shift in how business intelligence (BI) companies need to respond to the needs of SaaS providers who use business intelligence in their products.
We only have to look…
We all know the phrase “opposites attract,” but in reality, getting opposites to work together is often pretty hard. When it comes to self-service business intelligence (BI) and embedded analytics, it’s hard to accomplish both in a single system. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers have felt this pain more than most other industries.
In the early days of business intelligence software, end users were rarely able to create their own dashboards. They were forced to rely upon either pre-built reports or enlist system experts to create reports on their behalf. Then the day came when users could finally create a customized view…
Much has been said about how technology has leveled the playing field, letting small and unknown startups compete with the large, well-established companies. But, why is it that when every company has access to the same technologies, so often the smaller players come out on top?
Successful market newcomers all start with one thing in common, a winning bet on an architectural decision. Take Snowflake software for example. They bet on an architectural decision to leverage serverless technologies. Unlike larger, legacy players like Oracle, where you have to license and pay for more servers as you grow, Snowflake separates storage…
We’ve all seen the beautiful data visualizations the various analytics applications are creating. Today’s variety of charts and graphs are quite astounding. Even the U.S. government is making beautiful graphs these days with its census data. Take a quick peek.
It’s easy to get caught up in the hype. They’re sexy, glamorous and get all of the attention. However, the reality is that when you get to the dashboard / visualization phase, the majority of the work is already done. …
Evolutionary changes in technology happen almost every day. However, revolutionary changes only happen about once a decade. If you think back to early personal computers, it was revolutionary when DOS enabled personal computers to be used by consumers. Even though the software was limited and came on giant floppy discs, it offered new functionality that users had not experienced before.
Evolutionary changes in technology happen almost every day. However, revolutionary changes only happen about once a decade.
A little less than a decade later came Windows. This gave computers a graphical interface that could run more than one program simultaneously…
Revolutionary changes in technology are typically marked by a turning point and, for software providers operating in the cloud, the most recent turning point can be determined by a simple question — is the operating system still a factor in software development?
Cloud technology has been around for just over 20 years. It’s earliest business use was to host websites and to serve as a data center where companies could safely keep their servers. This allowed organizations the benefits of a data center without the expense of deploying and managing one themselves.
Location was an important factor as well in…
