Monitoring the SaaS technology landscape — trends, tools, infrastructure, and emerging patterns.
The enterprise alumni software category is consolidating, and the consolidation is architectural, not just commercial. The vendors carrying the recent wins share a stack shape. The vendors losing customers share an older …
A conventional SaaS release changes what the software does. An AI-native SaaS release can also change what the software thinks, and those …
This piece replaces an earlier draft that listed themes without analysing them. The list was fine as an outline and useless as an argument. …
The AI questionnaire is now a standard item in technical due diligence. It sits alongside the SOC 2 and the DPA as a precondition for vendor …
The AI lock-in conversation is mostly conducted at the wrong altitude. Buyers ask “can we switch model providers?” and the …
Every vertical SaaS vendor now claims AI. Most of the claims are true in some narrow sense, and almost none of them tell you whether the …
An agentic feature that cannot be traced is not a feature. It is an account sitting inside your data-path that nobody owns. Over the past …
Data residency is not a new requirement for European SaaS buyers. What changed since 2024 is that questions moved from “where is the …
Every security and IT leadership review this year includes a slide on AI tools employees are using without approval, always presented as a …
Cloud FinOps taught engineering teams to treat compute as a budget line, not background cost. AI inference is now forcing the same lesson on …
In January 2025, DeepSeek released R1, an open-weight reasoning model that reset industry cost and performance assumptions. It was not the …
Every IT and engineering leadership team we speak to this year is under pressure to reduce the number of SaaS subscriptions. The pressure …
Two years ago, SaaS pricing was per-seat and procurement could model it. The arrival of inference as a cost driver broke that model. Every …
Anthropic released the Model Context Protocol in November 2024. It is an open specification describing how an AI application — a chat …