SaaS User Group - Inaugural Meeting
Southend Brewery - 2100 South Boulevard - Charlotte, NC
5:30 - 7:30PM

Thanks to everyone who was able to attend the Inaugural SaaS User Group Meeting. I am excited to say that we had 75 attendees representing 60 companies congregate at Southend Brewery on the launch of our group! The core of the Carolinas’ SaaS base was in attendance.

Based on the 60+ surveys filled out; below is a summary of what we learned:

• Nearly 65% of attendees were IT/Operations professionals, followed by nearly 25% Executives.

• The primary reasons people attended the Inaugural event were pretty much an even distribution between: Networking, personal education, and sharing best practices around SaaS delivery.

• Overwhelmingly, members would prefer an organized format for future meetings. 65% preferring an organized roundtable structure and 35% looking for defined topic with guest speaker

• Almost everyone selected to meet every other month, with several write-ins for quarterly meetings

• The topics of most interest are “SaaS Industry Trends” (43%) and “The impact of SaaS on Business/IT” (47%)

• Most everyone is fine with a small membership fee