SaaStr

MAY 21, 2022

Sprout Social IPO’d in Dec 2019 at an $800m market cap. The markets for SaaS and Cloud stocks are down 50%+ in just a few months, and it hasn’t spared even the leaders. A few case studies: * Sprout Social IPO’d in December 2019 at an $800m market-cap. It IPO’d early, in a crowded space. years later, in a market down 50% ….

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

The Cloud has grown 700% since the first Annual, if we use AWS as a proxy. We’ve also branched out, and had 1,600+ at our first SaaStr Europa in Paris, then 2,500+ this year at Europa 2019. SaaStr (@saastr) September 19, 2019. So we are gearing up now for the 6th (!) So much has changed. That’s what we do.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Bessemer Venture Partners’ Alex Ferrara takes a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. One of the most popular sessions from SaaStr Annual, this presentation will provides an in-depth look at the cloud computing industry across Europe and globally. Want to see more content like this? A few more.

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Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2020

However, with the introduction of Events-Based Billing by Chargify, this event-based billing model is now available to small and medium-sized businesses, giving them the ability to offer the same pricing models and bill customers just as precisely as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or the popular voice and messaging platform Twilio.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2019

Tableau Reports First Quarter 2019 Financial Results. Mulesoft, ExactTarget, Commerce Cloud/Demandbase, etc. There aren’t that many things of true scale, that are strategic, that Salesforce could buy at this stage. Tableau was at >$900m in recurring revenue … growing 41% (!). And subscriptions were growing 115%. are all doing well.

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IT World

JUNE 9, 2020

Amazon Web Services (AWS) remains the most widely adopted cloud platform on the market used by companies such as Netflix, Apple, Slack and Adobe. And that makes AWS certifications among the most valuable certifications you can earn in IT. Three of the 10 highest-paying certifications in the U.S.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

373: Bessemer’s 5th Annual State of the Cloud Report returns for a definitive look at the cloud industry today. We want to take you through the cloud journey over the last several years. That was February 5th, 2019. Now, the cloud index fell along with it.

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IT World

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Unsurprisingly, the Chinese cloud market is dominated by local players, with IDC figures showing Aliyun (also known as Alibaba Cloud) holding 42 percent of the public cloud marketplace in 2018, followed by Tencent Cloud at 12 percent, China Telecom with 9 percent, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) close behind with 6 percent.

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Chart Mogul

JANUARY 28, 2022

A few months ago, we retired our last pieces of infrastructure on DigitalOcean, marking our migration to AWS as complete. Our journey was not your regular AWS migration as it involved moving our infrastructure from classic VMs to containers orchestrated by Kubernetes. Lack of modern cloud features and managed services.

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IT World

DECEMBER 10, 2019

At its AWS re:Invent 2019 event, the company acknowledged that computing power can be more useful when it’s closer to home, announcing three new services for reducing latency, including a mini-cloud you can house in your own data center. Get the latest cloud computing insights by signing up for our newsletter. ]

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CloudGeometry

MARCH 14, 2022

Hint: All the public cloud companies are doubling down on full-stack SaaS, betting that it’s the best way to get more companies growing via the cloud. Optimize cloud economics and drive Business Goals. Adapted from DORA’s State of DevOps Report 2019 , pp. So, what do you have to do to be the winning choice?

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CloudGeometry

MARCH 22, 2022

Whatever you call software-enabled, cloud-based competitive advantage, understanding the business impact of “digital transformation” is the focus of the massive 8-year study conducted by the DevOps Research Institute. State of DevOps Report, DORA Research Institute, 2019 The latest iteration of the study was launched in May 2021.

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IT World

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Looking to further nudge the data-center crowd into the cloud world, Amazon Web Services announced the availability of its long-awaited Outposts hybrid-cloud service this week. Outposts delivers on-premises hardware and services that enables AWS cloud services inside enterprise data centers.

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IT World

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

IBM is taking aim at the challenging concept of securely locking-down company applications and data spread across multiple private and public clouds and on-premises locations. Learn how server disaggregation can boost data center efficiency and how Windows Server 2019 embraces hyperconverged data centers. |

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

I was like, ‘Oh, this is so bad’” Brian Scanlan: One of the most traumatic outages I was involved with, even though I was not actually there during the outage, was the great Elasticsearch outage of January 2019. This time, some automation that was owned by AWS. Jamie Osler: In between drinks? I was sober at the time.

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

It’s 2020 and SaaS buyers are more skeptical and suspicious, more disbelieving, more unconvinced than they were in 2019. And G2 Gives, we partner with philanthropies, we partner with some of our customers like AWS and Google Cloud, who can then make donations for every review, to thank their customers. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

This means our software is hosted on the cloud and used over an internet connection via a web browser or mobile app. Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc. Merchant Fees At Buffer, we rely on Stripe, Google, and Apple for our payment processing needs.

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IT World

MARCH 12, 2019

You may be surprised to learn that AWS isn’t the only cloud solution out there. In fact, Microsoft has their own cloud platform that’s surging in popularity. You can explore its potential with the Complete Microsoft Azure Certification Prep Bundle 2019 , discounted by over 90% to just $29.

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How To Buy Saas

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

With an average of 52% of overall traffic from mobile devices in 2019, U.S. In 2019, around half of the clients were trying to find new insurance services. They could also change to be accessible through the channels that modern customers choose, allowing them to surpass distracted competitors.

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BetterCloud

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

In the beginning, this mission was exclusively focused on Google Apps (now G Suite), an early pioneer in cloud-based collaboration and productivity. Now, in 2019, there is no question that SaaS is the way in which organizations procure, deploy, and work with applications. Universal integrations.

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 25, 2019

As the close of 2019 approaches, with extreme stock market volatility and mixed economic signals, SaaS Finance execs building plans for 2020 and 2-5 years beyond don’t have an easy time. Meanwhile, this week, the IMF cut its global growth forecast for 2019 to 3%, potentially the weakest in a decade.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

A fun story is that I met Sameer about five years ago at a cloud conference. This was anyone from a marketing analyst at a small startup, to a junior analyst at my firm, to a cloud CEO like him. We were split up into groups. He was put on a table with me, but with a group that he was unfamiliar with. That really stuck with me.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Cloud destinations (coming soon) — we are in process of adding the ability to export your MRR movements data from ChartMogul onto the cloud. We will support exports to Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure Blob, and Google cloud storage. This year, we also migrated ChartMogul to AWS cloud.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2019

The cloud’s biggest days are yet to come. The rise of the public cloud is driving a massive replatforming of the tech stack and customer experiences for every company. We guided towards $800,000,000 for 2019. Like the notion, was cloud going to be the future? This cloud thing isn’t a certain thing yet, etc, etc.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

CloudCherry is a cloud-based CRM ( customer relationship management ) company that assists its clients’ tracking and enhancing their customer engagement. The company had introduced its Disney BYJU app in 2019. The company offers a data analytics platform based on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Clouds, and Microsoft Azure.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

We decided to use bare-metal infrastructure and not use cloud infrastructure, VMs, which was kind of completely crazy at this moment. None of that was available on cloud infrastructure at this time. You can do that on cloud provider with availability zone. We have not even fundraise. So this one was a good decision.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

For a long time, until this boom, until the 2019-2021 boom, crossover funds would be very careful. I’m going to get the numbers wrong, I think Amazon has 10,000 open positions out in AWS. Jason Lemkin: Crossover funds can go where it’s greener. I think Azure’s like 7,000, Google. I think hiring is harder than ever.

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BetterCloud

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Altitude 2019 was our biggest and best customer conference yet. For all the slides that were presented at Altitude 2019, check out our SlideShare. The term SaaSOps being defined helped me realize what needs to be done at work and legitimizes my goals for a cloud-based environment,” one attendee told us afterwards. Champion it!

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BetterCloud

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Altitude 2019 was our biggest and best customer conference yet. For all the slides that were presented at Altitude 2019, check out our SlideShare. The term SaaSOps being defined helped me realize what needs to be done at work and legitimizes my goals for a cloud-based environment,” one attendee told us afterwards. Champion it!

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

You know, the last time we did this, it was, I think, February 2019, so just a little over a year ago. This is where the cloud meets. And I remember AWS was growing really quickly. And at the time there was a big debate of, will big companies ever really use AWS? But, thank you so much for joining me today, Bridget. .

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 4, 2019

Outreach is also running Unleash 2019. We can dramatically reduce the amount of effort required to set up monitoring, and also help companies make the moves to the cloud faster. For Datadog, everybody’s moving to the cloud. You can just see by AWS’ amazing performance. Hop over to unleash.outreach.io

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 3, 2020

If you’re short on time, here are some quick takeaways: From Superhuman to bedside lamps, we look at the products and technology that defined 2019. Des: This is our 2019 look back where we’re going to talk mostly about things that happened this year, and indeed this decade. The products that defined 2019.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Co-founder Scott Farquhar mentioned as much during the company’s July 2019 earnings call, saying that, “What we’re talking about here is moving many of our products from a free trial to a freemium approach.” In their freemium plan, AWS offers a year’s worth of micro instance for free – a time-bound freemium model. Learn how here.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

I exited to pursue other interests after Upland Software acquired the company in 2019. One of my clients sold cloud-connected sprinklers that saved money and helped the environment. She is also a passionate advocate for woman and girls in STEM and the cloud. Still, sales took two years. Reva Pellerin.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

And so when you think back to what was happening, when we start back in 2010, when we were working on this idea in 2009, we just saw there’s this huge shift going on, where we were going from a world from hardware and software that you owned to services in the cloud that you rented. And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

In 2019, with your customers, if the CIO or the IT, if they’re opposed and the CMO really wants Shopify, he or she sees the world changing, I want to be up in 90 days, I want to be agile, can the CMO win that debate in 2019? What are the odds today in 2019? Did you think it’d be… I mean, the cloud is crazy.

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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

Join Bessemer Venture Partners’ Byron Deeter and Kristina Shen as they take a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. This marks the company’s fifth annual in-depth look at the cloud computing industry. And guess were how many of them were private cloud unicorns? Just ten years ago.

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