Clouded Judgement

JULY 28, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. AI = Data + Compute I’ll continue beating this drum, but we got two great quotes from Azure and AWS this week. ” Then at AWS Summit they called out “Your data is your differentiator when it comes to Generative AI.”

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SaaStr

AUGUST 4, 2021

We just launched the entire SaaStr Annual 2021 Agenda !! From AWS to Vimeo: this year’s speaker lineup is packed with incredible speakers and content. Why Intent is the New Lead: 2021 State of Marketing Technology with Marqeta’s CMO Vidya Peters. The post We Just Launched Our ENTIRE SaaStr Annual 2021 Agenda.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2021

We all know times are good in SaaS and Cloud — but just how good? Is it all the big public cloud vendors and a handful of outliers? — Jamin Ball (@jaminball) August 5, 2021. AWS accelerated to 37% YoY growth , up from 32% last quarter. Really impressive, accelerating, Datadog quarter.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 4, 2022

And inflation is awful. Not a crazy 2021 multiple. And even SaaS and Cloud leaders that come up a tiny bit short of Wall Street’s lofty expectations are in many cases still doing incredibly well. I’m not saying things aren’t very, very different than 2021. So are we in a downturn in SaaS?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Many Cloud leaders grew 500% or more this year. 3. “Atlassian and AWS Say: Maybe Worry a Little Bit. ” When will this incredible run for Cloud and SaaS end? But we went on to host 5 incredible digital events that reached 100,000+ … and we’ll be back IRL in 2021. What a crazy year for Cloud.

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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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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2022

The markets for SaaS and Cloud stocks are down 50%+ in just a few months, and it hasn’t spared even the leaders. Now all these stocks were even higher at the 2021 peaks. But they kept on going, and gong, and growing. years later, in a market down 50% …. They’re worth $2.7 Billion #golong pic.twitter.com/nA8jSXgehx.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Tackle.io’s 2021 state of cloud marketplaces report highlighted a similarly dramatic shift. In a 2020 survey, 22% purchased software through a cloud marketplace versus 60% in 2021. The role of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Marketplace is becoming increasingly important. “45% The need for ease . Ease of use

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SaaStr

MAY 6, 2022

Many SaaS and Cloud leaders are down more than 50% from their all-time highs. But Covid did create a lot of artificial demand for Cloud products, especially the lockdown phase. Update on cloud software multiples, charted alongside the 10Y and 5 year pre-covid NTM rev multiple average. So the public markets are in tumult.

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SaaStr

APRIL 27, 2021

Just how fast is SaaS and Cloud growing? Cloud software spending grew a stunning 23% in 2021, from $270 billion to $330 billion. No matter what, the wave of enterprise spending that fueled 100 SaaS and Cloud unicorns is just getting bigger and strong. — Gabriel Colominas (@GabrielCoBi) April 27, 2021.

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How To Buy Saas

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Deals Coming Soon On 21ST OCTOBER 2021. One-stop database solution for MySQL, Redis, and SQL Server on Amazon Web Services(AWS). Cloud-based Customer Master Data Management for the small to medium enterprise. What are the dates of Black Friday Deals 2021? OneBill Reviews: Details, Pricing, & Features. $ 349.00.

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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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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

It’s 2021, but surprisingly, a significant number of SaaS companies still use outdated sales compensation plans. Email * The latest SaaStr updates straight to your inbox. Subscribe Please do not fill in this field. Pothole #1 – Legacy Sales Commission Plans May Yield Low License Utilization.

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Chart Mogul

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In 2021, ChartMogul experienced a transformative shift in data strategy when we introduced a dedicated data engineering team. The modern data stack, in particular, represents a paradigm shift, embracing cloud-based solutions, automation, and integration to meet the escalating demands of data-driven decision-making.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Intercom services and data are hosted in Amazon Web Services (AWS) facilities in the USA (us-east-1), Dublin, Ireland (eu-west-1), and Sydney, Australia. . All of our infrastructure and data are spread across three AWS availability zones and will continue to operate should any one of those fail. Employee security.

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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. 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.

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All that Saas

JUNE 22, 2021

Working remotely has become many organizations culture for 2021. Ayoa Review (2021) – Mind Mapping & Whiteboarding Software. It is easy to import all the mind maps from iMindMap (or from iMindMap Cloud) into Ayoa. The post Ayoa Review 2021: Features, Functionality, Pricing, and More appeared first on All That SaaS.

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BetterCloud

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Cloud and SaaS sprawl. The rise of the cloud and SaaS has given companies access to an unprecedented volume of IT resources never before possible. Enterprise companies use over 1,000 cloud applications on average and that number is growing. Right now, SaaS is creating dozens of challenges (and opportunities) for IT.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2021

Cloud Data Lakes are the future of large scale data analysis , and the more than 5000 registrants to the first conference substantiate this massive wave. Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, Global Vice President for AWS Storage will deliver one of the keynotes. In my predictions post for 2021, I said that the 2020s will be the decade of data.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2021

2021 is the 30th anniversary of the birth of Linux. We’re currently in the age of the public cloud. Databricks started out in the Cloud; we never provided an on-prem offering, only a SaaS Cloud offering. For us, the SaaS model Amazon Web Services (AWS) offered was an amazing one to look at.

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2023

If you’re buying from a 3rd party, is a cloud marketplace a better option? According to the data, though, buyers are increasingly experimenting with cloud marketplaces, increasing from 22% in 2020 to 61% in 2021. It depends on what you’re buying and your organization. Few people sold direct back in the day. SaaS changed that.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 22, 2021

What’s new in ChartMogul in 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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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

In February 2020, the public cloud market surpassed a $1 trillion market cap, with a 45% growth rate, as reported in Bessemer Venture Partners’ 2020 State of Cloud report. This data revealed a clear picture of where cloud marketplaces are heading in 2021. Here’s what we learned. .

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

And because we are not scared of shipping code to production on a Friday, I approved a pull request adding a subnet to our VPC AWS that Friday evening. This time, some automation that was owned by AWS. We didn’t know about some of the dangers latent in our own automation and some of the automation at AWS.

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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. Now, the cloud index fell along with it. If you go back to before 2014, what you see is the power of the cloud.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

365: The Office of the Future, How Everything’s Changed and What 2021 Will be Like with Justin Bedecarre, CEO @ HelloOffice and Jen Nguyen, Founding Partner @ TEAMWERC. We have Slack saying, “Hey, we’re not going to consider going back into the office until 2021.” That’s your basic cloud infrastructure.

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SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2021

And if you haven’t heard: SaaStr Annual will be back in 2021 , bigger and better than ever! Twilio is a cloud communications platform that allows software developers to embed communications into the apps that they’re building. How sales worked, how pricing worked, how billboards work, and more. Jeff : Yeah, I saw one.

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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. Found in 2011 by Ashish Thusoo and Joydeep Sen Sarma, Qubole works on developing a “cloud-based data lake platform for self-service AI.” CloudCherry.

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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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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

It has little to do with the work itself, and more to do with the societal pressure, norms, and bias that exist in 2021. One of my clients sold cloud-connected sprinklers that saved money and helped the environment. A native of Illinois, she has lived all over the US, from IL to NH, NY, NJ, and CA, most recently settling in TX in 2021.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 24, 2022

So, it’s no wonder that it has been a massive year in the Cloud Marketplace business. We thought it would be great to take a look back at our State of the Cloud Marketplaces Report and share some of the key findings for those who may be planning to launch their Cloud Marketplace business in 2022. .

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

The number of patents filed in 2021 in Artificial Intelligence was 30x the number published six years earlier. We’re on the cusp of a golden age in AI, and the lesson learned from Cloud was that Cloud sped up the pace of development by a lot. Thinking back through Cloud and mobile, what can you learn from them?

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