The report provides insights into the global software market, specifically focusing on Software as a Service (SaaS). The report examines the SaaS public company landscape, M&A, private placement and IPO trends. The software sector has disrupted technology and many other industries over the last several decades, providing a global wave of on-premise software in the 1980s and 1990s, and modernizing traditional businesses through cloud-based platforms. The shift of business applications to the cloud has created a paradigm shift, with SaaS becoming the predominant method to deliver software for many business and financial reasons. The report provides quantitative insights into public and private market valuations across the transaction spectrum and qualitative insights into company business models, technology and customer trends.
