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SaaS … Challenge or Huge Opportunity?

SaaS … Challenge or Huge Opportunity?. Presented to ISV Convention Michael Ni, SVP, Products & Marketing July 13, 2011. What We Will Go Through Today. Question on How To Frame Your SaaS Decision. Facts / Figures on SaaS Market What does it mean for ISV’s like you

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SaaS … Challenge or Huge Opportunity?

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  1. SaaS …Challenge or Huge Opportunity?

    Presented to ISV Convention Michael Ni, SVP, Products & Marketing July 13, 2011
  2. What We Will Go Through Today Question on How To Frame Your SaaS Decision Facts / Figures on SaaS Market What does it mean for ISV’s like you Considerations when considering HOW to Transition Customer examples, choices they made Recommendations
  3. Who are you? Physical / ESD Software Primarily SaaS Primarily Some of Both In Transition
  4. Easier and Easier to Feel Behind Although regulatory and security concerns have held back the health care industry from widespread adoption of public clouds, the overall cloud computing market in health care will grow to $5.4 billion by 2017, according to a report by research firm MarketsandMarkets. In 2011, 4 percent of the health care industry used cloud computing, but that number will jump to 20.5 percent a year, according to the July 2 report. – CIO Insight SaaS (software as a service), has grown from a tiny sliver of the enterprise software market just a few years ago to 10 percent in 2009, according to Gartner, which predicts that slice will expand to 16 percent by 2014.-- InfoWorld
  5. Some Retrench In Current Business Models Some Even Plan Where
  6. 35% of ISV's are in process of trying to move to SaaS - Saugatuck Technologies 66% of ISV's will offer some portion of their application via SaaS this year – Gartner, 2011 8 out of 10 new software ventures are starting on SaaS – IDC,2012
  7. About half of ISV's worldwide plan to create a separate entityor BU to being the migration to Cloud and SaaS – Saugatuck Advsiors 50% of ISV's will FAIL ONCE before rolling out a successful SaaS strategy - Montclair Advisors
  8. The Shift Of Applications To SaaS & Online 2010 Applications Market 2014 Applications Market Applications Market, $133B Applications Market, $167B Source: IDC WW Electronic Software Distribution, 2010-2014 Forecast, IDC WW SaaS 2010–2014 Forecast and 2010 Vendor Shares, 2010, Avangate Analysis
  9. Both Simple and Customized Markets SaaSify Simple/Configurable Customized SaaS ESD / On-Premise
  10. Why SaaS? Why Now? Customers Want Low Costs, Speed, Control, Anywhere, No IT Forrester Research, 2011 Consumers Already Used To Accessing SaaS / Cloud Services Everyday … although too often assume that it should be FREE
  11. Why SaaS? Why Now? Vendors Customer’s are ready Falling concern on remote data / security / integration Mobile / Access anywhere Collaborate / Share Consumerization / Non-Core to IT & Infrastructure Simplify/Accelerate Product Evolution in fast changing markets Benefit from scale economics in high growth markets Disrupt markets with new entry – no implementation, HW
  12. In Good Company Avangate Platform Survey - Bifurcated What % of Your Sales Are Subscription-Based? How Are You Using Subscriptions Today? Source: Avangate SkyCommerce Cloud Platform Survey Data Sep-11
  13. Question Is How To Get There … Random Images Sales Comp Product Strategy Financials Service OPS
  14. Transition Is Hard Financial Considerations – SaaS Exacerbates Curve 3+ years to complete SaaS conversion 5+ years to break even … although can flatten the financing needs $35 million for successful SaaS firm before reaching an IPO
  15. Transition Is Hard More Than Delivery Mode … Cross-Organizational Impact Goto MarketDeal volume (Lower GM)  Acquisition / Adoption, Measureable (Cost to Acquire), Simple solutions  Competitiion, Channels/ Resellers For Distribution Sales FocusTelesales, Shorter Sales Cycles With Longer Term Contracts Paid Over Time, Compensation, Beyond The First Sale (Sell Service, Not a Product) Product / ArchitectureScale, Integration of On-Premise / Cloud, Sensitive Data, Customization, 10%+ of Revenue DevelopmentAcceleration of Cycles Changes Everything – Comp, Hiring, Staffing, Ecosystems no longer around 12-36 month traditional cycle Operations / SupportMultiple Business Models, Service @ Every Touch Point, SLA’s, Expanded Support (No Longer 3rd Parties for Success), Automating Revenue Systems
  16. Transition Is Hard Channels Still Important … … Pressured to Consolidate Traditional roles of implementation lose value … shifting to Systems Integration & education / process Expertise Already becoming hybrids (15% self-identify as MSPs, 52% have a MSP business) Average # of strategic partners increased from 4 (2011) to 5.8 (today) Channel accounts for over 50% of tech industry revenue Tech vendor Channel marketing budgets set to increase by 30% in 2012
  17. Starts With Defining Your Strategy Considerations, End State, Arch Types
  18. 3 Case Studies Journey To Embrace New Revenue Models
  19. Reezaa(Traditional / Shift To Subscriptions)Reezaa Media is a software development company whose flagship products include Multimedia/PDF Converters. Other products include multimedia rippers, encoders, cutters, splitters, and joiners Reezaa is a mp3 converter Converts all formats Video and Audio to MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG, FLAC, AMR, AC3, AAC. Reezaa supports AVI, WMV, MOV, 3GP, MP4, FLV, RM, RMVB, VOB, DAT, MPEG, WAV, WMA, ASF, OGG, RA and all DVD formats. Features include Drag-Drop Software, Convert Audio Files to MP3, Convert Video Files to MP3, Convert Youtube Videos to MP3, Change and Edit MP3 Bitrate, Rate and Audio Channel, Batch Convert Mode, and Online Send Feedback and Questions.
  20. Embracing New Subscription Model … … With Traditional Download Product Target: Existing B2C customers Customization: None Objectives: Longer-term customer relationships, capture value of updates Market: low pressure for change Used to purchase utilities Virtually no costs for installation and running Strategy / Financial: traditional product, switch from perpetual to to subscription licensing. Product: No change, except providing updated versions. Operations / Support: Subscription billing, expanded account management, notifications
  21. Subscription Model Success 11% % of Renewals of sales - Sept’10 24% % of Renewals of sales today (May’12) Total Net Income Up 25% Due To 162% Increase In Renewals + 25% + 12% + 162% Traditional Delivery Model (ESD) still makes sense, even as customers shift from Pay Up Front to Pay As You Go models
  22. Total Defense Hybrid - Both Download and SaaS For Current Customers A Global Leader In Malware Detection And Anti-Crimeware Solutions. Over 50,000 businesses across a wide spectrum of industries have deployed the company's solutions, including some of the most sophisticated buyers of security technology worldwide, and over four million consumers worldwide use Total Defense's products.
  23. Market Opportunity Driven Cloud / Mobility Creates Customer Need For SaaS Solution Target: Current B2B customers, future B2C Customization: Mixed with rules configuration for mobile solution Objectives: Penetrate with whole solution, block competition, extend the life of the current platform Market: Edge, non-core, mobile, offloading infrastructure Channel: Resellers play key role in education, configuration, success … distribution B2C easier
  24. Embracing The New Model Lessons Learned … and Still Learning Them
  25. TeamLab(Pure SaaS)A multi-function online service for business collaboration, document & project management
  26. Collaboration & CRM … SaaS Fit For B2B, Collaboration (& CRM) Early SaaS Adopters Target: B2B & prosumers Customization: Configuration, not customization centric Objectives: Enter new, high growth market in 2010 pivoting from server-based product Market: Low cost, rapid innovation, shared resources, social, broad access, fast implementation, low barriers for global expansion Channel: Distribution-centric for awareness generation
  27. TeamLab - Fully Embracing SaaS Lessons Learned … and Still Learning Them
  28. Transition To SaaS #1 – Start with the End in Mind Choose the model best fits your need Segment your customers – one size has to fit all Understand your costs Shortenorder to cash Leverage other ‘aaS’
  29. Transition To SaaS #2 – Think Customer Model to how customers will use your solution and then measure … Renewals and increased usage is the lifeblood Can package entitlements to maximize revenue New metrics - CAC (acquisition cost), MRR, Cohort Analysis, ACV, CSR (satisfaction rate) Customer community w/ internal customer champion Include communication paths - notify & tell users given the constant deliveries Service at any touch point
  30. Transition To SaaS #3 – Build a Lead Machine Offersomething for free - trial / test drive … one of the “magic 3” and aligned with “rapid time to value” needs Land and Expand Make advocates. Customers are your best salespeople - customer testimonials, ROI, metrics Make friends. Partners for distribution, awareness, acquisition. Put Lead Gen on Auto Pilot … low touch (online marketing, self-service, telesales), high qualification (when needed)
  31. Transition To SaaS #4 – Sell a Service, Not a Product Shift your mindset - not just leaving a piece of code behind for 3rd parties to implement and make successful Separation of Hunters from Farmers – incent on retention Plan to deal with security & downtime - show track record Explore SLA to address customer objections & concerns Automate Revenue / Administration – subscriber mgmt, licensing / entitlements, billing, payments, reporting
  32. Transition To SaaS #5 – Drive Customer Success Deliver programs to drive customer adoption & successFree initial training, on-going webinars, online resources, events best practice from peers. Measure satisfaction and resolve complaints quickly Setup self-service portals or communities to keep costs down Consider dedicated customer success teams Motivate customer facing employees with bonuses against customer success metrics
  33. Thank You. Michael Ni Email: Michael.Ni@Avangate.com Twitter: @MikeNi
  34. Strong Team of 110+
  35. Avangate Clients Software & SaaS - Security, Multimedia, Utilities… 2,300+ Companies
  36. Transition Is Hard Financial Considerations Transfers costs to the vendor Scaling is in step functions Customer knows they will pay more over the long haul … … pay sales on committed value, but only get paid over time
  37. Benefit
  38. Backup
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