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Audit Logs & Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance for SaaS: Part 2 of Compliance Essentials in the SaaS Era

BetterCloud

In the first part of our month-long series on compliance essentials , we looked at content scanning. In particular, we look at: Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance for SaaS, Provisions that apply to IT and SaaSOps professionals, The importance of audit logs, and. Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance for SaaS.

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From $800k to $274M in 4 Years - The Story of Ariba

Tom Tunguz

Before its acquisition, which was consummated at the highest historical multiple of any software company , Ariba was the largest independent procurement software business. It sold software to help businesses buy the things they need in order to operate, everything from pens to planes.

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From Slooooow Growth to Hypergrowth with Collibra and Insight Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So, you just raised your series E one of the European software unicorns, congrats on that. I remember talking to Belgium investors at the time and everybody said, look, enterprise software is dead, there’s no opportunity through investment. Felix : There’s no way to be successful with enterprise software.

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What Are The Top 50 SaaS Companies in 2020?

SmartKarrot

SaaS businesses are organizations that provide subscription-based software applications that are centrally hosted on their servers over the internet. But ever since 20 years, Parallels continues to rule the world of cross-platform virtualization software solutions for macOS. And the result is visible! Solarwinds. Customer Support.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 17, 2019

SaaStr

But two other software engineers, building [inaudible 00:04:24] that was kind of a time and expense software system. And that’s how we were able to then survive from 2002 til about 2007, when the cloud market finally took off. And so that was my first. So it was really a near death experience.

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From Freemium to Enterprise with Slack (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We had all the technology, the software itself. Following five years at Oracle, I was lucky to land at Salesforce.com in 2002. One thing as a salesperson at Salesforce.com in 2002 and beyond, that I don’t really think we appreciated at the time to the extent that we should’ve, was this concept of a free trial.

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5 Shifts to Move to Mega-Deal Thinking & Catch Whales: Overcoming Small-Deal Syndrome (Summit Replay)

Sales Hacker

And by delivering significantly greater capabilities — by changing the team, by doing some special things both at the software and with the services — it justified a much higher price, which is what my VP of Sales had eluded to at the very beginning of the process. They bought software from us, and they also bought services.