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> so they can compete better against their colleagues that don't have the latest and greatest

But there's nothing exclusive about SaaS and often our rivals' logos are already on the SaaS vendor's pitch-deck

Buy for equivalence, build for advantage. SaaS provides out-of-the-box solutions for basic functionality like HR or payroll and allows a company to deploy its programmers where they can build an advantage over their competitors in the domain of business logic.

SaaS is the new MS Word; just buy whatever everyone uses and get on with using that to do the things that actually make money.