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AI Agents Are Shaking Up the SaaS Market

Mark Kara
5 min readJan 28, 2025

How One Company Saved Nearly a Million Dollars

In a world where software-as-a-service (SaaS) once delivered slick solutions on demand, many organizations are now rethinking whether the overhead is truly worth it.

The increasing availability and sophistication of AI platforms — combined with modern infrastructure setups — is creating an opportunity to slash costs and streamline operations in ways that weren’t feasible just a few years ago.

A recent example I am sharing with you, shows how one company dramatically reduced its annual costs and reliance on third-party software tools. They replaced multiple ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) services and platform developers with a handful of Python scripts informed and partly generated by AI systems.

The transition offers a glimpse into how AI-driven automation is reshaping the competitive landscape.

It's not only for the expense of employees, what we read for two years. Now at the expense of legacy SaaS providers.

Yet, it also highlights fresh opportunities for innovation, growth, and upskilling — particularly for those who adapt early.

The Problem: Huge Platform Costs and Overlapping Tools bundled with High…

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Mark Kara
Mark Kara

Written by Mark Kara

amazon.com/author/markkara Salesforce Marketing Cloud Technical Architect who writes on Technology, Data Science, Finance , Management and who creates Puzzles.

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