Goodbye, per-seat software licensing? Goodbye, software as a service? Vendors ahead in the artificial intelligence (AI) space -- the OpenAIs, the Anthropics -- may begin to eat application vendors’ lunches, forcing the latter to restructure how they deliver and charge for solutions.
That’s the gist of a McKinsey analysis of the disruptive new structure of the software industry, essentially marking the beginning of the “post-SaaS” era.
AI agent-to-agent interactions will deliver software and services, ultimately leading to the decline of the per-seat pricing model, which has been the standard for software licensing for decades.
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