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Everybody knows what sass is

And we are doing a series on software as a service.

Cloud computing, some people were referred to as, basically it's software that exists in the cloud.

And SAS generally connotes business software, although we might touch on some consumer sass here.

We're gonna try to stay focused on business to business software.

In other words, software that helps solve an acute business problem

and the nature of s that will explore during this series, a 10-part series, is that it reduces cost, it reduces the installation time and you don't have updates coming at you all the time

and typically the pricing is either much more fair or it is in addition to being more fair, it is consumption based in some way.

It could be consumption based on how much work you do in the system, how many purchase

orders you do, how many documents are scanned or signed, or it could be consumption based

on how many users are using the platform, i.e. something like Slack, which only charges you for active users.

And another interesting feature of SAS software is because it's

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