Start, Build, Thrive
Clear SaaS engages at every step in the transformation of your SaaS business, from its first steps as a start-up to its success as a unicorn.
Start
Get off on the right foot
Developing a new SaaS solution?
Transitioning from a traditional on-premise or managed software product to a SaaS or cloud solution?
Whether you’re a software technology beginner or veteran, making the leap to the world of SaaS requires significant investments in terms of R&D, infrastructure, tools, process, ops and people. At this stage, everything is about customer acquisition and retention costs.
Maximize your chances of success: plan your growth from the outset.
- Build on SaaS Essentials: understand the scope of what a complete SaaS provider offers, prioritize investments and build the right foundations from the start.
- Align the Organization: a fully aligned organization that thinks SaaS from the outside in and works seamlessly will exceed customer expectations and drive growth.
- Think Governance: understand the power of transparency and what to track in key areas that affect efficiency, costs and growth.
- Think Security: reduce security and compliance related sales friction by implementing core security practices.
Build
Grow intelligently
As an up-and-coming SaaS provider, you may be asking yourself the following questions…
How do my solutions and SaaS services scale for a growing customer base?
How do I manage costs while achieving scalability, performance and profitability?
How do I reassure investors?
The growth stage is a crucial phase in the life cycle of a SaaS provider. This is the period when important issues regarding security, infrastructure availability, service continuity and revenue management will arise.
With Clear SaaS, you can harness the full potential of your human, material and financial resources to build your customer base and maintain a high retention rate while maximizing profitability.
Scalable and adaptable solutions to help you thrive.
- SaaS 360 Assessment: a detailed analysis and assessment of the entire SaaS organization will provide a comprehensive picture of where you need to invest and improve.
- Build for Governance: implement the building blocks of SaaS governance practices for need-to-know reporting of operational metrics designed for customer engineering, support, sales, finance and executives.
- SSAE-16 SOC Start Kit Implementation: most SaaS providers are required to offer a security attestation or compliance report. The Start Kit is a library of the core, customizable policies, processes and controls needed for a SOC attestation.
- Implement effective customer communications and notification processes and tools.
Thrive
Build transparency and enable the E-team to make better-informed decisions
You have emerged as a player with a sound solution and a loyal, well-established customer base.
How do you take it to the next level and dominate your market space?
The profitability of a SaaS business hinges on its efficiency. Clear SaaS pinpoints leaky bucket areas that drain scalability, performance, communications and cost efficiency, and drive churn.
Clear SaaS optimizes the use of all your human, material and financial resources by implementing best management practices. As a result, the CEO and team members will make better-informed decisions.
Next level concerns give rise to next level solutions.
- Implement organization-specific dashboards for operational metadata to understand your true SaaS metrics, drive growth and ops governance, and reduce manual reporting.
- SaaS 360 Assessment: a detailed analysis and assessment of the entire SaaS organization.
- Clear SaaS 360: an unique SaaS information management for product engineering, operations, support, customer success, sales and executives.
- Enforce operational transparency with a SaaS customer reporting portal.
SOC2 Security Program
Implementing a SOC2 Security Program is a “when”, not an “if” for SaaS providers
SOCs attestations have become the de facto standard required of SaaS providers in North America.
If your organization is aiming for SOC2, or if your customer need better Ops service, implement the Clear SaaS SOC2 Security Program. With commitment and focus, you can be ready for a SOC attestation much sooner than you think.
If SOC2 is not on your radar yet, prepare for savvy enterprise buyers can who will specify SOC2 requirements prior to signing on for your best of solutions.
What’s in it for you?
The Clear SaaS SOC2 Security Program is a library of customizable policies, processes and controls designed specifically for SaaS providers who want a strong security attestation.
From zero to SOC2… in 4 months
Implementing the Clear SaaS SOC2 Security Program quickly broadens your shoulders to support the burden of implementing sound security practices and demonstrating compliance.
- Obtain SOC2 without initiating a multi-year project that will consume precious management time.
- SOC 1 or SOC 2? Find out which one is right for you.
- Achieve compliance upon the first examination.
How does it work?
- SOC Essentials Overview: Get an overview of what you need to do in order to obtain a SOC attestation. Understand the road ahead and the steps that will get you there.
- SOC2 Library: A comprehensive library of core policies, processes and controls that provide the framework to implement a structured security program that meets SOC2 criteria
- Adapt: Customize the Clear SaaS SOC2 Security Program policies, processes and controls rot reflect your organization’s capabilities and needs.
- Implementation Support: Adopt and execute policies, processes and controls with guidance from our experts.
- SOC Readiness Assessment: We support you throughout the SOC assessment process, from the readiness review to the examiner’s visit.
SaaS Readiness Assessment
A crystal Clear SaaS scorecard
Get a full audit of your SaaS organization conducted by leading specialists that focuses on the elements that make a difference in the SaaS world:
- Engineering
- Architecture & Cloud solution
- Operations
- Security & Compliance
- Customer support & communications
What’s in it for you?
SaaS 360 assessment becomes a pledge of trust for customers and investors alike, as well as enabling you to pinpoint opportunities for improvement, and optimize your operations and subsequently your performance.
How does it work?
- Capabilities discovery and interviews with technical leaders and teams
- Thorough and structured checklist of technical and operational capabilities scoring
- Graphical report of strengths, weakness and opportunities, with rationale
- Development of an actionable report allowing you to create short term tactical plans and longer term strategic plans aligned for the entire organization.