SaaStr

MAY 16, 2022

So follow AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Let’s look a whole level up to the real canaries-in-the-coalmine: AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. And AWS grew 37% at a $74B run-rate , down a bit from 39% the prior quarter but still adding an insane amount of new revenue. In 2023, it will be $750B. jasonlk) May 16, 2022.

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Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Subscribe now Cloud Giants Report Q3 ‘23 Not a great signal for software this week from the Cloud Giants (AWS, Azure and Google Cloud)…After Q2 (3 months ago), the tone from the Cloud Giants around optimizations was largely: optimizations have started to ease, and net new workloads have picked up. Staggering scale already.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Many have used Digital Ocean at the cheaper, simpler version of AWS-Azure-Digital Ocean to get going fast and quickly. But it’s raining cash, and earnings per share is growing 22% — faster than revenue. Even small cloud customers worked to bring down their spend in 2023. #5. It’s gotten crazy good.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Look no further than the massive companies pushing the public & the private market forward: Snowflake, Databricks, Amazon, Azure, Google Cloud. On October 25th, I’ll share my 10 predictions for data in 2023 at The Impact Data Summit. Cloud databases generated $39b in spend , about half of all database revenue.

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Data Azure Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 240

Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I’m watching public company earnings to identify early trends in the software market to inform startups’ plans for 2023. Large customer revenue contribution increased again sequentially to 63% of revenue, up from 57% in the fourth quarter last year. represented 53% of revenue and increased 44% year-over-year.

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Cloud Azure Headcount Software Review 230

Clouded Judgement

MAY 10, 2024

After a strong finish in Q4, we saw a return to weaker demand conditions in the first quarter, similar to what we experienced in 2023. Revenue multiples are a shorthand valuation framework. Multiples shown below are calculated by taking the Enterprise Value (market cap + debt - cash) / NTM revenue. Top 5 Median: 15.5x

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Cloud Software GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Azure 161

Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 6, 2023

Cloud Downgrades This week UBS came out with a couple research reports citing concerns in AWS / Azure growth. As I’ve talked about before, the big risk for 2023 are fundamentals - are forward estimates too high? This brings me back to AWS / Azure downgrades. Revenue multiples are a shorthand valuation framework.

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Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 27, 2023

Azure (Microsoft) Quarter The week the first of the cloud giants reported - Azure. Early Look at 2023 Guides Given the Azure weakness reported on Tuesday, all software tumbled Wednesday morning with most names down 5-10%. A big reason for that was the guides for the full year 2023 we saw. Top 5 Median: 12.0x

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IT World

JANUARY 25, 2023

Microsoft on Tuesday said it expects the growth across its cloud business to temper down through 2023 as enterprises brace for economic headwinds. The Windows-maker reported 29% growth in total cloud revenue to $21.5 Microsoft said it expects its third quarter cloud gross margin to decrease by one percentage point, driven by Azure.

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Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

A 2023 recession feels less likely, with 2024 being the more realistic timing if we do in fact get to a deeper recession. From the S&P to software, consensus was 2023 estimates were too high, and set to fall meaningfully. Let’s imagine a world where we don’t have a recession in 2023. The market was offsides.

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Clouded Judgement

MAY 26, 2023

Azure / Confluent / Datadog reported a few weeks back (they all had March quarter ends), and their commentary suggested the worst was behind us. Revenue multiples are a shorthand valuation framework. Multiples shown below are calculated by taking the Enterprise Value (market cap + debt - cash) / NTM revenue. Top 5 Median: 13.0x

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Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

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Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 11, 2023

While the overall median revenue multiple of the software universe is ~6x (which is ~25% below the long term average of ~8x), high growth software is currently trading at a premium to it’s long term average (9.4x The hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP) are seeing some uptick, but this is largely from selling compute (ie cloud GPUs).

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Clouded Judgement

JUNE 20, 2023

On the Microsoft earnings call they said (related to Azure): “But at some point, workloads just can't be optimized much further. Beating consensus revenue estimates is the first aspect of a successful quarter. The formula to calculate this is: (Q1 ’23 revenue) / (Q1 ’22 revenue) - 1.

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Clouded Judgement

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Pure revenue multiples are trading at a 31% discount to their long term average (5.4x After all, the real headwinds to software started in the Q3 / Q4 2022 timeline, so by Q3 / Q4 2023 we’d start lapping those tough periods. Maybe with the exception of hyperscalers (particularly Azure). So what’s going on??

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Software Review Cloud Software Azure 161

Blulogix

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The ability to bill clients based on their actual consumption of services not only maximizes revenue but also simplifies operations. Cloud Service Providers: Integrate data from popular cloud providers like AWS , Azure, or Google Cloud to track resource consumption and costs.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Management Azure AWS 52

Blulogix

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Here are some notable examples: Cloud Computing Major cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud offer pay-as-you-go pricing, enabling businesses to access computing resources based on their actual usage. This approach has transformed the way companies manage their IT infrastructure.

Technology 52

Technology Pricing Payment Features Subscription 52

Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Product analytics, customer data or user feedback from your CRM, as well as revenue analytics, all play an essential role in understanding and growing your business. See future changes to your recurring revenue with CMRR. Combining revenue, product, CRM, and other data sets can uncover powerful insights. Let’s get to it.

Systems Review 52

Systems Review Payment Solutions Payments Azure 52

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 25, 2024

If it wasn’t clear before, AI is the single biggest revenue driver in cloud. Microsoft’s Azure is winning share directly from Amazon. “The number of $100 million-plus Azure deals increased over 80% year-over-year, while the number of $10 million-plus deals more than doubled. of revenue in a year.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

If you are wondering how actionable analytics can help you boost product growth in 2023, this post is for you! Microsoft Azure Machine Learning is a data science tool that helps you create machine learning models at scale so you can prepare data, build and train models, deploy, and then monitor results. Let’s get started.

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Artificial Intelligence Data Software Review Machine Learning 98

SaaStr

OCTOBER 6, 2022

SaaStr events couldn’t happen without our partners, and we wanted to give a special shout-out to some of our newest sponsors for SaaStr Annual 2023. We help B2B SaaS marketers turn organic search into a source of repeatable revenue through software and coaching. Our mission is simple : We help others grow.

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GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Azure AWS compliance 193

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 21, 2024

Generative AI took the consumer landscape by storm in 2023, reaching over a billion dollars of consumer spend 1 in record time. In 2024, we believe the revenue opportunity will be multiples larger in the enterprise. Implementation alone accounted for one of the biggest areas of AI spend in 2023 and was, in some cases, the largest.

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Generative AI AI Enterprise Artificial Intelligence 145

Audacix

AUGUST 11, 2023

Table Of Contents India's Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023, (DPDPB) is going to force IT decision makers like you to completely rethink how your organisation collects, processes, stores and secures customer, vendor, employee and partner data. Examples include: Veronis, Azure Purview, AWS Macie.

Outsourcing Services 52

Outsourcing Services Technical Review Cybersecurity Data 52

User Pilot

MAY 30, 2023

Salespeople will have interesting ideas about how they can leverage a CDP to boost revenue. The best customer data platform of 2023 Next up, we’re going to dive into a few of the best customer data platforms currently available on the market, their features, and how much they cost. Microsoft Azure dashboard. Sales teams.

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Azure Government Marketplace as a Service Data 98

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Typical data lake storage solutions include AWS S3, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Google Cloud Storage (GCS) or Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). Especially at the compute layer, where customer costs / vendor revenues are soaring. In this post, I’ll focus more on the data lake portion of the diagram above.

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Data Government Scale GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 130

OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Cloud marketplaces like AWS Marketplace, Azure Marketplace and Google Cloud Platform Marketplace are digital storefronts where companies can list their offerings for software buyers to find, purchase and provision software. . Unsurprisingly, these high-revenue companies complete the most marketplace transactions than any other ARR band. .

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 24, 2022

At Tackle, we have seen our sellers experience huge revenue growth, the product catalog is expanding rapidly for buyers, and budgets are growing at unprecedented rates. We predict Cloud Marketplaces will exceed $10B in throughput by the end of 2023 and $50B by the end of 2025.

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Marketplace as a Service Cloud Trends Software 77