What's stopping you from distributing your application to customer-managed environments?

Replicated's research highlights the challenges and opportunities for software companies considering expanding their offerings into customer-managed environments, such as public and private clouds, hybrid clouds, and on-premises data centers, beyond a pure SaaS model. While some companies remain committed to SaaS, 39% plan to explore these new markets within a year, despite concerns over support, release management, development effort, and profitability. The primary issues identified include building and testing software for diverse installation options, security requirements, installer and management tooling, and obtaining useful metrics. Replicated addresses these challenges by providing solutions that facilitate efficient software development and support, aiming to reduce developer effort and increase revenue and profitability. Their research involved a global survey of 695 software professionals, revealing a significant interest in adapting to customer-managed environments to meet evolving market demands.