Scio Consulting presents...

How to Eat an Elephant

Developing a Real World SaaS/Cloud Product Roadmap

Get your SaaS/Cloud Product Off the Ground

If you want to develop a profitable, successful SaaS or Cloud product in the most efficient way - you must attend this 5-hour workshop. This event is for anyone considering a SaaS or Cloud product, in the process of developing a product or dealing with the issues of offering a product that isn't reaching its potential. 

Who Should Attend?

Entrepreneurs, CXO's, product managers, and key executives in startups, ISVs moving to SaaS/Cloud Service or existing companies in the field. 

Benefits

There are many ways to navigate the maze of choices that you face in bringing a SaaS/Cloud product to market. By attending this workshop, you will learn how to create a SaaS/Cloud Product Roadmap for your project that optimizes your resources, accelerates your time to positive cash flow and maximizes your chances of commercial success. This workshop will expose you to the tools and techniques Scio uses as a part of its SaaS/Cloud Consulting Practice to help our customers introduce new products. 

Answers Key Questions

• How can we build and release our product incrementally so we can leverage our cash flow and customer feedback? How do we select a value-based feature set?
• What are the critical steps in the process of releasing a new SaaS/Cloud product?
• What technologies or services could we leverage and what are the tradeoffs?
• What do you need to operate the business and operational side of a SaaS/Cloud business?
• What skills do we need or should we bring in?

You will hear industry best practices, our field-tested experience, get your questions answered and learn about resources you can use to plan your Product Roadmap.

This is a limited size, interactive, information-packed, half-day workshop you can't afford to miss if you are bring a SaaS/Cloud product to market or need tips on how to improve your current offering.

Agenda

• The Business Case for the Cloud - Assess if the Cloud is for you by identifying the business opportunity, investment needs, risks, etc.
• SaaS/Cloud Product Strategy - Define the competitive and positioning strategy for your product within your context and your market.
• Your Cloud Business Model - Define how your product will make money and what is needed to make it happen.
• Developing your SaaS/Cloud Product Roadmap - Develop a tactical roadmap to align funding, development and marketing objectives.
• Key Technical & Functional Requirements of a SaaS/Cloud Product - Understand the architecture and functional elements required to deliver your service smoothly and profitably
• Cloud Readiness Checklist - Identify key requirements of SaaS and Cloud operations, customer support, legal, financial considerations, sales and marketing that you will need to prepare for to make your product successful.

About the Speaker

This workshop will be conducted by Luis Aburto, co-founder and CEO of Scio Consulting, a strategic consulting firm that partners with service and technology companies to help them accelerate time-to-revenue and maximize the profitability of their SaaS/Cloud Products. Luis is a veteran of international technology and engineering consulting for corporate and government clients in the US and Latin America. At Scio, Luis has worked with dozens of service, technology and software companies of all sizes, across many industries, helping them to make the transition to SaaS and Cloud offerings. 

The Venue

Plaza 7000 is on Highway 1 (MoPac Expressway) and easily reachable from anywhere in the Austin area. Ample free parking is available on site. Coffee and lunch will be provided.