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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Retail was mentioned twice, that’s it, and AWS was mentioned 78 times, so it’s probably not surprising that they’re doing this. I think it’s a really staggering stat.

Cloud 101
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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Domo and Gorgias — April 24, 2020

SaaStr

John Mellor: But then probably the biggest transition was watching Adobe transition into the subscription business model with its Creative Cloud product as it’s known today. ” Clearly, Wall Street and the Adobe team knew the benefit of a subscription business model and the transition into SaaS.

Scale 215
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How AI could impact the B2B software industry in the next decade

Point Nine Land

In my article “SaaS” is not to be understood as an industry, but rather as an innovation wave (product and business model innovation) which impacted the B2B software industry in the 2000s and came after the “on-premise” wave. Comparing the installation phase for the SaaS and AI waves 1.1 Infrastructure. Integration.