SaaS Experts Dimension Data And Montclare Share Best Practices On "Building A Profitable SaaS Business"

Four-city education tour will deliver proven strategies to ISVs and SaaS vendors respectively seeking to successfully transition to a SaaS business model and to improve business

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Sep 04, 2014, 09:00 ET

NEW YORK, Sept. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Dimension Data, the US$6 billion global ICT solutions and services provider, and Montclare, a leading provider of strategic and operational Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) consulting, have teamed up to share their SaaS domain expertise during a four-city seminar series titled, "Building a Profitable SaaS Business." The educational seminars are targeted at independent software vendors (ISVs) seeking to make a successful transition to a SaaS business model, as well as existing SaaS companies looking to scale and improve their business by learning best-practices.

Dimension Data and Montclare will teach attendees about building an optimal SaaS business model, how organizations can adopt SaaS to best achieve business goals and will offer real-world examples of successful transition stories. The events will also convey the insights needed to help attendees build a more successful SaaS business by covering the advantages and challenges of switching to a new business model that is required to effectively deliver SaaS solutions.

"Montclare and Dimension Data have worked together with a number of ISVs to optimize everything from their business model, product and pricing mix, through to application architectures and operational best practices for software delivery," said Jason Cumberland, vice president of SaaS Solutions at Dimension Data's ITaaS Unit. "Migrating to SaaS poses many challenges and potential benefits for ISVs. We'll explain how other companies have achieved this successfully, and how they capitalized on their existing assets by laying a sensible but swift path to satisfying their customers' need for SaaS solutions."

"Dimension Data and Montclare have helped a variety of ISVs break into this large and growing market," said Kevin Dobbs, CEO at Montclare. "During this educational tour, ISVs will learn how to make the transition to SaaS, while existing SaaS companies will learn how to optimize their business models, control costs, improve revenues and deliver world-class software solutions."

Event Details:

What	Joint educational tour in New York, San Francisco, Chicago and Austin, Texas

Topic	Building a Profitable SaaS Business

Who	Jason Cumberland, vice president SaaS solutions, Dimension Data's ITaaS Unit
	Kevin Dobbs, CEO at Montclare

Where & When	New York, New York. Toshi's Penthouse, 1141 Broadway
	Sept. 10, 3-5 p.m. EDT

	Austin, Texas. Hangar Lounge, 318 Colorado St.
	Sept. 16, 4-6 p.m. CDT

	San Francisco, California. Le Colonial, 20 Cosmo Pl.
	Sept. 18, 4-6 p.m. PDT

	Chicago, Illinois. Public Hotel – Ava Terrace, 1301 N. State Pkwy.
	Oct. 2, 4-6 p.m. CDT

In 2013, Dimension Data announced a comprehensive suite of software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions, delivering cost-effective and scalable hosting and application management services for SaaS independent software vendors. With Dimension Data SaaS Solutions, organizations are able to simplify their cloud hosting and management operations, allowing them to focus on delivering solutions and expanding their business.

Dimension Data has combined its expertise in SaaS hosting, systems integration and cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), to provide a variety of critical solutions and support services that improve SaaS application uptime and reduce cost, while at the same time, ensuring enterprise-class security. Dimension Data SaaS Solutions decrease the time it takes to migrate applications to the cloud, speeding time to revenue and increasing return on investment.

Visit http://cloud.dimensiondata.com/saas-solutions/ to learn more about Dimension Data and its cloud computing and SaaS offerings.

About Dimension Data
Founded in 1983, Dimension Data plc is an ICT services and solutions provider that uses its technology expertise, global service delivery capability, and entrepreneurial spirit to accelerate the business ambitions of its clients. Dimension Data is a member of the NTT Group. Visit us at www.dimensiondata.com/na and www.facebook.com/DimensionDataAmericas or follow us on Twitter: @DimensionDataAM.

About Montclare
Montclare is a leading provider of strategic and operational SaaS consulting. The company develops the Montclare SaaS 250, the industry's leading report on the most influential SaaS companies in the world. The company provides guidance designed to assist companies transitioning to a SaaS model as well as directing existing SaaS companies on optimizing business models, controlling costs, improving revenues and delivering world-class software. Regularly trusted by the world's largest software companies, Montclare ensures results, which improve growth, innovation, and profitability. For more information, visit http://www.montclare.com.

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