More Than Just SaaS: Get To Know Your Other As-A-Service Verticals by Joshua Mayers, PitchBook
Insights as a Service? Obstruction Lighting as a Service? Stickers as a Service?
Mostly everyone knows SaaS stands for “Software as a Service,” though a surprising amount of companies across a variety of industries have used their own -aaS iterations to describe what they do—with varying degrees of success. We sourced the 730,000-plus businesses in the PitchBook Platform to see what other uses of “as a Service” we could find in company descriptions.
Wacky. Unoriginal. Borderline obscene.
We’ll let you make the final call on some of these. Be sure to let us know of your favorites, or -aaS companies that we missed, in the comments section below.
More Than Just SaaS: PitchBook’s “___ as a Service” glossary
Algorithms
Analytics/Data Analytics
API
Authentication
Backend
Backup
Big Data
Billing
Business Intelligence/Business Processes
CMS
Commerce
Communications
Compliance/Compliance Intelligence
Computing
Contact Center Solutions
Container
Content/Geo-Content
Contextual Localization
Conversion
Crowdfunding
Customs Brokerage
Customer Care
Data/Database
Data Science
Demand Prediction
Desktop
Disaster Recovery
Display
Due Diligence
Electric Vehicle
Encryption
Energy/Energy Efficiency
Enterprise/Enterprise Application/Enterprise Search
Feedback
Financial Planning & Analysis
Financing
Format
Fulfillment
Games
Hardware
Ideas
Identity/Identity Management
Infrastructure/Cloud Infrastructure
Insights
Insurance
Integration
Internet
IT
Knowledge
Labs
Lending
Login
Logistics
Machine Learning
Marketing
Marketplace
Mobile/Mobile Applications/Mobile Network
Monetization
Monitoring
Music
Network/Network Management
Obstruction Lighting
Operations
Payments
Personalization
Platform
Positioning
Postage
Price Optimization
Property Management System
Proximity
QA
R&D
Recovery
Recruiting/Recruitment
Reporting
Rich Internet Applications
Rules
Sales
Search
Security/Web Security
Social Games
Social Media Content
Software Delivery
Solutions
Staging
Stickers
Storage
Storytelling
Subscription
Supply Chain
Technology
Testing
Translation
Trust
Unified Communications
User Onboarding/User Retention
Video/Videoconferencing/Video Players
Viral Growth
Virtual Lab
Virtualization
Vision
Voice
VPN
WAN
Warehouse
Web Development
Workforce
Workplace/Workspace
