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The Argument High Cloud Multiples Are Behind Us. Even if Epic Growth is Still To Come.

SaaStr

This chart before from data Meritech tracks helps illustrate the bear case here: I like t he Meritech data not only because it’s well presented, but because you can go way back in time. So far back, to 2005 and beyond, it’s arguable too far back to matter today. But revenue multiples might be a different story.

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IBM puts Power Systems in SAP’s cloud

IT World

SAP is now hosting IBM’s latest Power Systems servers in its own data centers, as part of its HANA Enterprise Cloud managed offering. That could interest a lot of CIOs: SAP has offered its software on the Power platform since 2005, and ported HANA to the Power architecture in 2015. Comparison shopping?

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Top Global SaaS Trends You Should Know with Google Cloud and Zenoss (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Join us for a fireside chat between Google Cloud and Zenoss, a leader in software-defined IT operations, as we discuss the most common and emerging challenges facing SaaS companies today for both technical and non-technical backgrounds. Eyal Manor – VP, Engineering @ Google Cloud. Want to see more content like this session?

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Three Secrets to a Successful Acquisition

SaaStr

Take IBM’s recent purchase of RedHat to accelerate hybrid cloud adoption, or Salesforce’s acquisition of Mulesoft to coordinate, unlock, and integrate customer data better than any competitor. In 2005, eBay spent $2.6 Conservative Sprint executives clashed with scrappy Nextel personnel.

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Strategy as a Series of Beliefs

Kellblog

Era 4 (2003-2005). Never, corporate data is highly proprietary. We believe that companies will need a centralized data catalog to help people find the data they need, and that machine-learning can help with that finding. Era 2 (data governance). Era 3 (data intelligence platform). Extranet BI?

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38 Bright Asian SaaS Stars

SaaStock

It is a cloud-based platform that offers the services of Asia’s top AI assistant for hotel staff – Gaia. Near is a platform that provides real-time data on places, people and products. Near works with global brands across 44 countries to deliver processed data that feeds into business decision making. Founded : 2005.

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A Complete Guide to Implementing SAML Authentication in Enterprise SaaS Applications

Frontegg

Let’s say an organization wishes to authenticate its users without creating IAM roles and communicate assertions between the source and the target in a cloud environment. It was ratified back in 2005. Cloud-Based. First, users will be redirected to the cloud infrastructure to verify their identity. Image Source.