Phase 1: Business Planning
Before you can start thinking about the move to SaaS, you need to develop a clear vision that captures and conveys the fundamental elements of your strategy. This process will be used to validate the key components of your strategy and connect them to the model that illustrates how the move to SaaS addresses the needs of the business. For some companies the path and strategy maybe relatively straightforward. In these scenarios, the data gathered provides the foundation that will shape the path forward. For others, the hard part is not learning a new technology, but overcoming old plans, processes, and systems optimized for a time when industry change was slow and technology improvements were incremental. No matter where you start, the strategy that you adopt will be rooted in good data.