SAAS companies that are focused mainly on enterprise sales have higher levels of professional services

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As expected, companies that are focused mainly on enterprise sales have higher levels of professional services. In comparison with last year’s survey, attach rates ticked down for Enterprise and SMB (2015: Enterprise 26%, SMB 18%).

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