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Vulnerability scanning or vulnerability assessment is a systematic process of finding security loopholes in any system addressing the potential vulnerabilities. The purpose of vulnerability assessments is to prevent the possibility of unauthorised access to your systems. MORE
We've spent the last few months speaking to hundreds of CIO / CTOs and senior IT decision makers. Many of the conversations were so similar that we came to the conclusion that presenting our conclusions here will give you greater insight into industry-wide challenges. It will also hopefully serve to assure you that your issues are not unique to your teams and organisations, but are experienced by many others in your position! MORE
Another day, another hack! Nutribullet, the blender and easy blended smoothie company, was hacked and their ecommerce online shopping store was injected with malicious code not once, not twice, but three times in the last 30 days! The malicious code helped hackers literally swipe away the credit cards numbers of Nutribullet customers. Application security is seldom considered during the ideation phase unless the development team has previously been hacked and survived to tell the tale. MORE
Many a software testing company will claim to do everything and anything under the sun for you. But only proven software testing experts will be able to prove to you how they can solve your most painful software quality challenges, like speed of testing, speed to market, support costs, process optimisation and others. The challenges you are facing in your software development and delivery pipeline are unlikely to be unique. MORE
So you're on the hunt for test automation services for your web or mobile app, right? But what is it that you need, exactly? Have you defined your requirements or are you willing to be persuaded by the glossiest marketing brochure? There are thousands of test automation service providers willing to grab every last dollar off you. MORE
What happened Instacart is an American company that arranges grocery delivery and pick up in the United States and Canada. Much like other personal shopping/delivery services, Instacart requires users to create user accounts with them that store user credentials and payment info. MORE
Selecting a pen testing company will be one of the most important business decisions you will make. This decision will decide just how well protected your users and your brand is going to be from a cybersecurity perspective. Asking these 6 questions will help you ensure that you choose a penetration testing company that is best suited to helping you secure applications and network infrastructure. MORE
25% of revenue from professional services may sound high, but it’s a fairly standard ratio in true enterprise software. Importantly, Qualtrics’ margins remain high so it’s not losing money on its services. Gross margins on services are about 35%. MORE
In chatting with CEOs of SaaS companies, one topic keeps coming up over and over again: how do we cut our software testing costs? Or, if we can't reduce them, how do we tame the growth in our software testing spend? What's just as surprising is that IT leaders in large enterprises ask the same question! While everyone is looking for a silver bullet, let me be the voice of reason for you: software testing costs will only keep rising unless you do the 6 things mentioned below. MORE
One of the most tiring things for founders can be always being compared to Unicorns and now Decacorns. Certainly sometimes it’s inspirational. MORE
This story is newsworthy and even amusing because of the big sum involved - $32 million. But imagine, if you were in Hertz's shoes and the amount was only $3.2 million, or even $320,000 - would it still hurt if this happened to you? You bet it would! And that is why it is crucial to take apart this case study in modern web app development failure and learn the crucial two principles that were disobeyed on the path to this colossal c**k-up. MORE
Whether you're about to implement DevOps or for ways to optimise it within your team, you must remember that DevOps is all about discipline and is definitely no magic bullet to doing it right from the outset or to fixing your perceived issues in one fell swoop. But you're in luck, because successful DevOps practitioners leave clues and patterns that you can start implementing today to supercharge the value from your DevOps program. MORE
Software testing has often been an afterthought for CIOs , software engineering managers and software development teams. The accelerated adoption of Agile, DevOps and digital has ensured that if you remain ignorant to the value of fast and effective software testing, your program will bleed money and leave users frustrated by their user experience. MORE
While the world is in panic mode and as we all get used to working from home regularly its important to remember that things will get better. When we're busy helping our teams, our customers, our neighbours, our families, it's easy to lose sight of the fact we also need to position our SaaS businesses to come out of this period stronger and ready to pounce on the opportunities that will present themselves. MORE
Far too often we receive mayday calls from prospects who have invested a lot of money, but more importantly time, into selecting and working with a outsourced test automation services provider, only to be rewarded with a never-ending tug of war that inflicts much damage to their professional reputations. MORE
The quora hack proves that no company with web or mobile applications is safe from being hacked. Don't these words, uttered some years ago, sound so ironic and prophetic in this day and age: There are only 2 types of companies: those that have been hacked and those that will be hacked. Don't just disregard that line of thought because you think it is too dramatic or unlikely. MORE
Digital transformations are a confluence of new ideas, grand plans, modern business models, high hopes and, often, very poor delivery and implementation. This was the evidence collected after the CDO Conclave: Whether you are spending millions or billions on a digital transformation, presumably the end goal is all three of the outcomes given in the infographic above. MORE
In theory, many things can kill a SaaS startup after $4m-$5m ARR. In practice, quitting is the only thing. In theory, many things can stop a SaaS startup after $4m-$5m ARR from getting to $100m. In practice, high churn is the only thing. — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) January 17, 2021. MORE
Don't pick a cofounder that. – has something better to do – wants to see how it goes – has a clear backup plan – sees it as risky – argues over who should be CEO – doesn't 100% believe. You'll see. — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) July 18, 2020. MORE
Early in my career, I was a bit skeptical of big analyst firms like Gartner. Was it all sort of some sort of game in enterprise software? But like many things, time goes on and I learned. Yes, sometimes a vendor recommendation from Gartner can seem a bit circular. MORE
It’s a combination of habit, hygiene and ultimately, common sense. When you finish eating dinner at home, do you place those plates and cutlery back in the drawer or do you wash them? To re-frame this for you, your plates are on a regular hygiene schedule where eating from them is the trigger for them to be cleaned. Let me ask you: what triggers the security hygiene schedule to be undertaken for the SaaS application that your team builds? MORE
What is Oracle EBS testing? Whether you are implementing, ordering or patching your Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) you need to ensure that your EBS system continues to function as expected. MORE
The two most commonly cited reasons by CTOs, software engineering managers and SaaS executives for not conducting penetration tests on their cloud software and mobile apps are: We've never been hacked - why would we spend on penetration testing? MORE
“My CEO Told Me To Stop Selling So Much” Recently, I met with a sales leader I’ve known for years, and he told me The Most Curious Story. His SaaS CEO asked him to stop selling so much. Slow down. You are doing too good of a job, the CEO said. We can’t afford it. MORE
Are you looking for ways to optimise your eCommerce site for organic search? Let’s be honest - ranking your online shopping store on the first page of Google's organic search results is key to long term success. Getting organic traffic to your site is not that easy. But once you get it, it will give you plenty of benefits. At times, the success and failure of a business are even determined by the site’s SEO performance. Shoppers these days do not buy a product without conducting an online search. MORE
Application security is seldom considered during the ideation phase of web application development - unless the development team has previously been hacked and survived to tell the tale. But it's also true that it's never too late to secure your cloud-based web app. MORE
Web application vulnerability scanners have been around for a long time. And they've been ignored by most software engineers for a long time. Isn't it strange that the very people who build amazing software completely ignore other novel software that helps them secure their creations? Why do software engineers not like vulnerability scanning tools? MORE
The inconvenient truth about developing a mobile app today is that hackers will find and exploit vulnerabilities in your app to steal data, demand ransoms, ruin your reputation and even destroy your business. The good news for you is that we know the most common vulnerabilities that hackers will target to compromise your mobile app. Because we know their methods of attack, your developers can code best-practice security mechanisms into your app to reduce the likelihood of a successful breach. MORE
There are an unending list of reasons that compel SaaS companies and digital teams to ship each release at greater speeds. Your customers demand more responsiveness, your business demands more revenue and your competition isn't slowing down so why should you? This need for speed often leads software delivery teams to take shortcuts and turn a blind eye to spot fires that, seemingly "from nowhere" turn into soul-sapping infernos. Know what I mean? MORE
In years gone the "freemium" model was the favoured one of marketing SaaS platforms that were trying to attract new startup or SME customers. Now even enterprises are willing to use "free trial" offers from new marketing SaaS providers in an effort to secure a winning edge on the cheap. While freemium offers are great for slashing the cost of evaluating a new marketing platform, have you considered the cybersecurity risks that these free trial offers pose to your IP, your data and your business? MORE
As enterprises increasingly become more open to introducing cloud software to their environments, you as a cloud provider must proactively anticipate their concerns and address them. Without doing both, you will lose high paying and reliable enterprise customers to competitors who use their cloud software security standards as a differentiating factor to grow sales. MORE
Burnout is a real risk in SaaS. Not usually in the early days. But as time marches on — It’s a huge risk. . One piece of “evidence” — a lot of fairly successful SaaS startups all sell at about the same point in time … about 5 years in. MORE
If you are running Oracle ERP applications without any test automation to help your teams, your headaches get bigger with every passing quarter. Oracle releases a few hundred critical patches for its suite of ERP products including JD Edwards, EBS, Sebel and others. Applying, and even not applying, a patch to your Oracle EBS system has associated costs. What is the cost of not applying patches to Oracle EBS systems? MORE
Audacix
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
What is Oracle EBS testing? Whether you are implementing, ordering or patching your Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) you need to ensure that your EBS system continues to function as expected.
Audacix
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
What happened Instacart is an American company that arranges grocery delivery and pick up in the United States and Canada. Much like other personal shopping/delivery services, Instacart requires users to create user accounts with them that store user credentials and payment info.
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Audacix
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
Vulnerability scanning or vulnerability assessment is a systematic process of finding security loopholes in any system addressing the potential vulnerabilities. The purpose of vulnerability assessments is to prevent the possibility of unauthorised access to your systems.
Audacix
OCTOBER 6, 2020
Web application vulnerability scanners have been around for a long time. And they've been ignored by most software engineers for a long time. Isn't it strange that the very people who build amazing software completely ignore other novel software that helps them secure their creations? Why do software engineers not like vulnerability scanning tools?
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Audacix
JANUARY 1, 2019
Whether you're about to implement DevOps or for ways to optimise it within your team, you must remember that DevOps is all about discipline and is definitely no magic bullet to doing it right from the outset or to fixing your perceived issues in one fell swoop. But you're in luck, because successful DevOps practitioners leave clues and patterns that you can start implementing today to supercharge the value from your DevOps program.
Audacix
MARCH 23, 2020
Another day, another hack! Nutribullet, the blender and easy blended smoothie company, was hacked and their ecommerce online shopping store was injected with malicious code not once, not twice, but three times in the last 30 days! The malicious code helped hackers literally swipe away the credit cards numbers of Nutribullet customers. Application security is seldom considered during the ideation phase unless the development team has previously been hacked and survived to tell the tale.
Audacix
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
The two most commonly cited reasons by CTOs, software engineering managers and SaaS executives for not conducting penetration tests on their cloud software and mobile apps are: We've never been hacked - why would we spend on penetration testing?
Audacix
MAY 25, 2020
Are you looking for ways to optimise your eCommerce site for organic search? Let’s be honest - ranking your online shopping store on the first page of Google's organic search results is key to long term success. Getting organic traffic to your site is not that easy. But once you get it, it will give you plenty of benefits. At times, the success and failure of a business are even determined by the site’s SEO performance. Shoppers these days do not buy a product without conducting an online search.
Audacix
JANUARY 28, 2020
It’s a combination of habit, hygiene and ultimately, common sense. When you finish eating dinner at home, do you place those plates and cutlery back in the drawer or do you wash them? To re-frame this for you, your plates are on a regular hygiene schedule where eating from them is the trigger for them to be cleaned. Let me ask you: what triggers the security hygiene schedule to be undertaken for the SaaS application that your team builds?
Speaker: Shannon Lietz, Director of DevSecOps Team, Intuit
You've finally done it: You've won over C-Suite and your DevSecOps team is up and running. But how do you monitor your new program? Join Shannon Lietz, Leader and Director of DevsecOps at Intuit, and learn to lead your DevSecOps team to the top.
Audacix
OCTOBER 24, 2019
Application security is seldom considered during the ideation phase of web application development - unless the development team has previously been hacked and survived to tell the tale. But it's also true that it's never too late to secure your cloud-based web app.
Audacix
AUGUST 4, 2019
In years gone the "freemium" model was the favoured one of marketing SaaS platforms that were trying to attract new startup or SME customers. Now even enterprises are willing to use "free trial" offers from new marketing SaaS providers in an effort to secure a winning edge on the cheap. While freemium offers are great for slashing the cost of evaluating a new marketing platform, have you considered the cybersecurity risks that these free trial offers pose to your IP, your data and your business?
Audacix
MARCH 20, 2020
While the world is in panic mode and as we all get used to working from home regularly its important to remember that things will get better. When we're busy helping our teams, our customers, our neighbours, our families, it's easy to lose sight of the fact we also need to position our SaaS businesses to come out of this period stronger and ready to pounce on the opportunities that will present themselves.
Audacix
OCTOBER 5, 2019
As enterprises increasingly become more open to introducing cloud software to their environments, you as a cloud provider must proactively anticipate their concerns and address them. Without doing both, you will lose high paying and reliable enterprise customers to competitors who use their cloud software security standards as a differentiating factor to grow sales.
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In today’s climate, it’s more important than ever for SaaS companies to build rock-solid financial models on which they can operate and make key business decisions. The teams at SaaSOptics and Burkland have teamed up to create a comprehensive guide to the most difficult aspect of financial modeling: revenue forecasting.
Audacix
AUGUST 3, 2018
Software testing has often been an afterthought for CIOs , software engineering managers and software development teams. The accelerated adoption of Agile, DevOps and digital has ensured that if you remain ignorant to the value of fast and effective software testing, your program will bleed money and leave users frustrated by their user experience.
Audacix
JANUARY 9, 2019
The inconvenient truth about developing a mobile app today is that hackers will find and exploit vulnerabilities in your app to steal data, demand ransoms, ruin your reputation and even destroy your business. The good news for you is that we know the most common vulnerabilities that hackers will target to compromise your mobile app. Because we know their methods of attack, your developers can code best-practice security mechanisms into your app to reduce the likelihood of a successful breach.
Audacix
DECEMBER 9, 2018
The quora hack proves that no company with web or mobile applications is safe from being hacked. Don't these words, uttered some years ago, sound so ironic and prophetic in this day and age: There are only 2 types of companies: those that have been hacked and those that will be hacked. Don't just disregard that line of thought because you think it is too dramatic or unlikely.
Audacix
DECEMBER 13, 2018
In chatting with CEOs of SaaS companies, one topic keeps coming up over and over again: how do we cut our software testing costs? Or, if we can't reduce them, how do we tame the growth in our software testing spend? What's just as surprising is that IT leaders in large enterprises ask the same question! While everyone is looking for a silver bullet, let me be the voice of reason for you: software testing costs will only keep rising unless you do the 6 things mentioned below.
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Does your analytics solution work with your current tech stack and DevOps practices? If not, any update to the analytics could increase deployment complexity and become difficult to maintain. Learn the 5 elements of a DevOps-friendly embedded analytics solution.
Audacix
MAY 23, 2018
So you're on the hunt for test automation services for your web or mobile app, right? But what is it that you need, exactly? Have you defined your requirements or are you willing to be persuaded by the glossiest marketing brochure? There are thousands of test automation service providers willing to grab every last dollar off you.
Audacix
SEPTEMBER 24, 2018
There are an unending list of reasons that compel SaaS companies and digital teams to ship each release at greater speeds. Your customers demand more responsiveness, your business demands more revenue and your competition isn't slowing down so why should you? This need for speed often leads software delivery teams to take shortcuts and turn a blind eye to spot fires that, seemingly "from nowhere" turn into soul-sapping infernos. Know what I mean?
Audacix
AUGUST 13, 2018
Selecting a pen testing company will be one of the most important business decisions you will make. This decision will decide just how well protected your users and your brand is going to be from a cybersecurity perspective. Asking these 6 questions will help you ensure that you choose a penetration testing company that is best suited to helping you secure applications and network infrastructure.
Audacix
AUGUST 11, 2018
Far too often we receive mayday calls from prospects who have invested a lot of money, but more importantly time, into selecting and working with a outsourced test automation services provider, only to be rewarded with a never-ending tug of war that inflicts much damage to their professional reputations.
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As a group who provides the software tools necessary to manage the contracts to cash process, Aysling onboards users and projects daily, and has learned some important tips if you want to be successful when onboarding new clients and/or projects.
Audacix
MAY 23, 2018
We've spent the last few months speaking to hundreds of CIO / CTOs and senior IT decision makers. Many of the conversations were so similar that we came to the conclusion that presenting our conclusions here will give you greater insight into industry-wide challenges. It will also hopefully serve to assure you that your issues are not unique to your teams and organisations, but are experienced by many others in your position!
Audacix
MAY 23, 2018
Many a software testing company will claim to do everything and anything under the sun for you. But only proven software testing experts will be able to prove to you how they can solve your most painful software quality challenges, like speed of testing, speed to market, support costs, process optimisation and others. The challenges you are facing in your software development and delivery pipeline are unlikely to be unique.
Audacix
JUNE 13, 2019
This story is newsworthy and even amusing because of the big sum involved - $32 million. But imagine, if you were in Hertz's shoes and the amount was only $3.2 million, or even $320,000 - would it still hurt if this happened to you? You bet it would! And that is why it is crucial to take apart this case study in modern web app development failure and learn the crucial two principles that were disobeyed on the path to this colossal c**k-up.
Audacix
MAY 23, 2018
Digital transformations are a confluence of new ideas, grand plans, modern business models, high hopes and, often, very poor delivery and implementation. This was the evidence collected after the CDO Conclave: Whether you are spending millions or billions on a digital transformation, presumably the end goal is all three of the outcomes given in the infographic above.
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SaaStr
JANUARY 24, 2021
“My CEO Told Me To Stop Selling So Much” Recently, I met with a sales leader I’ve known for years, and he told me The Most Curious Story. His SaaS CEO asked him to stop selling so much. Slow down. You are doing too good of a job, the CEO said. We can’t afford it.
SaaStr
JANUARY 20, 2021
One thing that is great in SaaS, from a 20,000 foot perspective at least, is You Can See The Future. It’s the benefit of a recurring revenue stream in a B2B model.
SaaStr
JANUARY 17, 2021
In theory, many things can kill a SaaS startup after $4m-$5m ARR. In practice, quitting is the only thing. In theory, many things can stop a SaaS startup after $4m-$5m ARR from getting to $100m. In practice, high churn is the only thing. — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) January 17, 2021.
SaaStr
JANUARY 17, 2021
Don't pick a cofounder that. – has something better to do – wants to see how it goes – has a clear backup plan – sees it as risky – argues over who should be CEO – doesn't 100% believe. You'll see. — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) July 18, 2020.
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SaaStr
JANUARY 25, 2021
Early in my career, I was a bit skeptical of big analyst firms like Gartner. Was it all sort of some sort of game in enterprise software? But like many things, time goes on and I learned. Yes, sometimes a vendor recommendation from Gartner can seem a bit circular.
SaaStr
JANUARY 13, 2021
Burnout is a real risk in SaaS. Not usually in the early days. But as time marches on — It’s a huge risk. . One piece of “evidence” — a lot of fairly successful SaaS startups all sell at about the same point in time … about 5 years in.
SaaStr
JANUARY 15, 2021
25% of revenue from professional services may sound high, but it’s a fairly standard ratio in true enterprise software. Importantly, Qualtrics’ margins remain high so it’s not losing money on its services. Gross margins on services are about 35%.
SaaStr
JANUARY 12, 2021
One of the most tiring things for founders can be always being compared to Unicorns and now Decacorns. Certainly sometimes it’s inspirational.
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