Adrian West’s Post

The Hidden Cost of SaaS Redundancy 💸 Unused SaaS licenses are draining budgets. With 53% of licenses unused annually, enterprises are wasting millions. DevRev solves this by consolidating functionality into a single platform: ✅ Unified search across tools without needing individual licenses ✅ Role-based access to ensure only the right people access the data ✅ Integrated analytics to eliminate the need for standalone BI tools 💡 Ready to optimize your SaaS investments? Let’s connect. #CIO #CostOptimization #AI #EnterpriseSolutions #devrev

Great article on the next big B2B paradigm shift from Falk Gottlob 💡

The Software as a Service (SaaS) model, which evolved from the problematic enterprise systems (ES) era, was once perceived as the cornerstone of enterprise software delivery. By offering tempting subscription-based solutions, SaaS platforms were said to provide organisations with (an illusion of) scalable and cost-effective access to advanced tools. However, the emergence of advanced AI technologies—generative AI, agentic AI, and composable organisations (yes, composable organisations)—is fundamentally redefining both the enterprise design and technological landscape. Indeed, as widespread data and evidence suggests, these AI-driven enterprise models continue to expose the inherent limitations of both SaaS and traditional MSP models and are accelerating driving organisations, with a seasoning of systems thinking and enterprise design, toward a new era of enablement-as-a-service (eNaaS), digital autonomy, and enterprise (design based) renewal. For the full timeline, impact on enterprise affairs and Rare predictions on what's in store for the run into 2030.... #ENDOFSAAS Article Here: https://bit.ly/4iZQQAf Full White Paper Here: https://bit.ly/45Tnc9A

The Future of SaaS in an AI-First World If you’re building software like it’s been done these last 10–15 years, it’s time to rethink. The SaaS giants of the last decade? They’ll fast become the new incumbents. The playbooks that built those businesses are aging fast. We’re entering the AI-first era: language oriented, task centric, and agentic. Users will expect software to meet them where they are—not just through sleek interfaces, but via integration, automation, and proactive intelligence. API access is becoming essential, allowing AI agents and environments to leverage your software on users' behalf. And there are going to be huge opportunities in "headless": headless CRMs, headless task management, headless financial planning — headless *everything*. Software designed for infinite adaptability and seamless integration, unbound from traditional interfaces. This isn’t a tweak to the old model; it’s a wholesale shift. SaaS companies must evolve—or risk being left behind.

Listen to the experts (like Nasrin Mostafazadeh)... change is about to happen for your Saas Subscriptions. Traditional Software logic is being disrupted as we speek and replaced by real AI Agents that actually make changes in your database!

A lot of what we do at Verneek is exactly what our proprietary AI Platform was designed to do from day zero, back in 2021, before anyone cared for domain-general AI interfaces for Enterprises. The one thing that surely wasn't on our horizon is the grand power of our AI platform in unifying existing software siloes that Enterprises run on. When you have one AI engine that can ingest any source of data, integrates with any custom APIs, and can get grounded on any environment of choice, turns out you get on the path of disrupting a lot of legacy software companies. Listen to the remarks of our founder Nasrin Mostafazadeh on this topic at #WebSummit.

𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑆𝐿𝐴𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑎𝑎𝑆 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑟, AI-powered operations, the game is changing faster than a chatbot can finish your sentence 🤖 𝐖𝐡𝐲? Because outcomes trump features now, and businesses demand smarter, industry-specific tools that deliver tangible results 💡 Gone are the days of juggling countless SaaS apps and paying six figures for 𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬. Enterprises want tailored solutions that fit like a glove, integrate seamlessly, and work invisibly in the background—𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝐴𝐼. ⚡ This is a w̲a̲k̲e̲-̲u̲p̲ c̲a̲l̲l̲ for decision-makers, innovators, and SaaS stalwarts clinging to the past. 𝐀𝐈 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞; 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞. Enterprises are reimagining workflows, supercharging outcomes, and cutting complexity. 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐩𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞; those who don’t? Well, just ask Blockbuster 📉. 👉 Read Dhiraj Jain and Girijesh Agarwal’s insightful take on Inc42 and bring your questions to the comments to lead the charge. https://lnkd.in/gTtkE4ws . #AI #EnterpriseTech #VerticalSaaS #DigitalTransformation #ThoughtLeadership #Sangria

How are organizations big and small dealing with the data silos being created given the SaaS adoption (subscriptions range easily from couple of dozens to 100+ in many cases). With many core and niche platforms/functions being integrated into multitude of SaaS platforms, bringing the data together & building the knowledge/semantic layer has become an exceptional challenge as well as opportunity for most companies. This is one of the key areas of prioritization and innovation #businessimperative that needs to solved really well for the AI investments to deliver outcomes with sustainable impact. #iwork4dell

#SaaS is dead. 💀 Software is a business TOOL, not a business model. Software is becoming more commoditized ( hello, #AI :) ). As it becomes easier for enterprises to roll their own software or build replacements for all the SaaS; software becomes less valuable, and ....the VALUE of your code depreciates. Curious what new novel business models will come out of this now that you can't acquire a customer on your SaaS platform once and expect them to pay you forever—  Plum Data Labs dies thigs differently. We charge for VALUE. #venturecapital #innovation #data

So Satya Nadella the CEO of Microsoft said the quiet part out-loud: The biggest impact coming on IT estates isn't on custom software (which will be impacted) but on packaged software. This makes perfect sense when you consider that these are literally the most standardized and commoditized parts of any IT landscape. AI Agents can deliver not only the transactional foundations, but provide a much better approach to integrate into a business and be the foundation for genuine innovation and differentiation without corrupting the base. It is hard to stress the scale of impact this will have on IT, traditionally these packages are the behemoths of any IT landscape, and suddenly all that is going to move. #AI #GenAI #AgenticAI #CRM #ERP Alex Marandon, Mark Oost, Itziar Goicoechea, Weiwei Feng, Bikash Dash, Arindam Bhattacharjee, Aruna Pattam, Julia Ellard, Robert Rowe, Eddie Short, Myles Suer