CloudGeometry

MARCH 22, 2022

Big data has been a game-changer. It has revolutionized tracking systems utilization and health data, by allowing capture of almost any conceivable system behavior. Platforms operations teams had potentially endless evidence of any set of data points describing what happened where and when.

DevOps as a Service 130

DevOps as a Service Software Delivery Well Architected Framework AWS 130

Clouded Judgement

MARCH 22, 2024

In it's truest form, ARR is used by pure SaaS business models to describe the aggregate annual value of the entire customer set. Many laude the SaaS business model because ARR is inherently predictable - you know what you’re revenue will be over the coming 12 months, and sometimes even further out than that.

AI 183

AI Revenue Cloud Technical Advisors 183

Clouded Judgement

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Model providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc as companies start building out AI). Hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP as companies look for cloud GPUs who aren’t building out their own data centers) Infra (Data layer, orchestration, monitoring, ops, etc) Durable Applications We’ve clearly well underway of the first 3 layers monetizing.

Cloud 183

Cloud Artificial Intelligence AI GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 183

CloudGeometry

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

2020 left no doubt: the growth of cloud computing is firmly grounded in the SaaS business model. Additional Isolation Options – Supplementary isolation approaches focused on compute and data Storage considerations. Governing authorities lay down regulation on private data protection.

Well Architected Framework 130

Well Architected Framework SaaS AWS Construction 130

Clouded Judgement

MARCH 31, 2023

How Will AI Effect Software Business Models? Like many, I’ve been thinking about how AI and foundation models will effect the world of software. In particular - how AI will effect software business models. Or hire less data engineers but write more SQL queries. What do I mean by this? The list goes on.

Cloud 130

Cloud Sales Hiring AI Headcount 130

CloudGeometry

MARCH 3, 2022

For purposes of your monetization strategy, the overwhelming majority of data that you need can be captured hourly and rolled up once a day, prior to export into graphs for exploration and analysis. See more about all 3 M’s in these two companion blog posts Part 1: User Model and Part 3: Measurement.

Well Architected Framework 130

Well Architected Framework VPCs (Virtual Private Cloud) SaaS Cloud 130

Blulogix

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll delve into the five keys to automating usage-based billing for MSPs , with a particular focus on the vital role of data integration. Comprehensive data integration ensures that you have a holistic view of client usage across all services, enabling precise billing. Calculate charges in real time.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Management Azure AWS 52

Blulogix

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Enter Usage-Based Pricing – a revolutionary model that’s changing the game. This model allows customers to pay for technology services based on their actual usage. Whether it’s cloud computing resources, software applications, or data storage, usage-based pricing offers adaptability and efficiency.

Technology 52

Technology Pricing Payment Features Subscription 52

Frontegg

JUNE 17, 2021

Type 1 SaaS Architecture – This type of architecture basically requires runtime and data isolation, but not necessarily on the cloud. Non-cloud use cases like banking and finance businesses. Type 2 SaaS Architecture – Unlike Type 1, this architecture needs runtime and data isolation on the cloud as well.

ECS (Elastic Container Service) 97

ECS (Elastic Container Service) multi-cloud Kubernetes K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) Scale 97

Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Besides building a growth model and forecasting your growth from it, which I absolutely recommend you should do, what are the factors that contribute to how quickly you need to be investing in that second product after the first product finds product/market fit? B2B requires suite expansion. Why does B2B require suite expansion?

Payments 113

Payments Scale Payment Solutions Technical Review 113

User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

It’s suitable for businesses wanting control over their infrastructure and the ability to scale. Key examples are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, which provide scalable resources like virtual servers and storage. What are the benefits of the SaaS model? Mixpanel analytical dashboard.

SaaS Payments 77

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 77

ProfitWell

MAY 15, 2020

There are many different cloud-based models for storing data, but this article is focused directly on SaaS. Customers typically don’t interact with the physical data centers, but it is provided as a service to them. Google Compute Engine (GCE), Digital Ocean, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are all good examples of IaaS.

SaaS Payments 75

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 75

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

Cloud 100

Cloud Scale AWS Machine Learning 100

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

How to optimize your freemium model. Stories of ditching a freemium model. When is freemium the right strategy for your business? Is Freemium The Right Business Model? Is freemium an effective lead generation, conversion, and revenue driving strategy for your recurring revenue-based business?

Pricing 82

Pricing Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

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. . This data revealed a clear picture of where cloud marketplaces are heading in 2021.

Marketplace as a Service 52

Marketplace as a Service Cloud Scale B2B 52

Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

This philosophy applies to both low and high touch business models, where the vendor has to eliminate all potential usability problems that may arise. Founded : 2011 Known customers: Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Unity, Udemy, Shopify Price starts at: $38/month per user. #2 Best For: Product Adoption.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Scale 98

ProfitWell

MAY 12, 2020

IaaS is used by those who want to alleviate the need to maintain their own on-premise data centers. These three cloud service models differ mostly in what they provide out of the box for the end user of the service. Data and software — SaaS users do not have to worry about managing data usage, or application upkeep.

Cloud 59

Cloud Azure SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 59

OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The Blockbuster/Netflix situation is one of the most frequently cited examples: A newcomer arrives on the scene with a better business model than the incumbent, and the incumbent doesn’t mimic the new model for fear of damaging their existing business. This kind of scenario happens all the time.

Marketing 54

Marketing AWS Scale Development 54

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As Workplace’s global head, Julien Codorniou has been spending the past few years exploring how to make his department align with Facebook’s mission while executing an entirely different business model that relies on companies promoting community within their workforce. That’s why they’re trying to turn the company into a community.

Scale 151

Scale Marketplace as a Service Mobile Sales Hiring 151

ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

By almost all key metrics, now is a great time to get into the SaaS business model. Running your own server to handle your customer's valuable data requires a huge investment to match the same level of security and reliability that comes baked into services like Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud. AI Integrations.

SaaS Payments 66

SaaS Payments Trends Merchant Services Payments 66

Point Nine Land

JANUARY 30, 2019

In my article “SaaS” is not to be understood as an industry, but rather as an innovation wave (product and business model innovation) which impacted the B2B software industry in the 2000s and came after the “on-premise” wave. During the AI installation phase, data moats are not crucial for success. Infrastructure. Integration.

AI Search 70

AI Search AI B2B Software 70

SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

327: John Mellor is Chief Strategy Officer @ Domo, the company that allows you to leverage BI at scale to empower your team with data. As for John, prior to Domo he served as vice president for strategy and business operations for Adobe’s Digital Experience business, driving more than $3 billion in annual revenue.

Scale 209

Scale Leadership Strategy Technology 209

OPEXEngine

JUNE 11, 2020

The terms aren’t universally understood, nor are the implications of each on the financial model of a company, so the following is an effort to provide an overview. At OPEXEngine, we pull apart the different nuances of each business model to make sure we are benchmarking companies correctly.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Subscription Payment Features 52

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

You should have the data you need to vet their experience and track record accordingly. Ask your agency for all of the data you need to validate their performance —references, case studies, anonymized campaign data, and before and after campaign data. Advertising can’t save awful products.

Outsourcing Services 131

Outsourcing Services Advertising Transportation Customer Lifetime Value 131

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

It’s less expensive than it’s ever been in terms of actually getting a product to market, whether it’s leveraging platforms like Salesforce or GCP or AWS or Heroku. Obviously we’ve seen a lot of changes in terms of tech and business models, but what would you say has stayed the same in that space?

Scale 151

Scale Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence AI 151

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Fighting skewed data with segmentation. First, segment the users of your product in a way that removes any bias that skewed data may hide. While inevitable and with multivariate causality, it speaks to the product’s maturity and business model. Make managing and reviewing gross margin an organization-wide priority.

Scale 52

Scale Payment Methods Payment Services Systems Review 52

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Yes, they might kick the can down the road a little longer, but they only delay the inevitable while giving customers an awful experience in the meantime. The key feature separating subscription businesses from their more standard counterparts is the recurring nature of payments. Of course, you know better.

Payment Features 49

Payment Features Subscription Payment Methods Merchant Services 49

ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

One of the most famous lines from Citizen Kane is, “It's no trick to make an awful lot of money, if that's all you want is to do is make a lot of money.” That’s never been truer for software businesses in particular than in the past 10-15 years, with the internet stimulating an explosion in the number of viable revenue models.

Payments 40

Payments Revenue Payment Methods SaaS Payments 40

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

That’s the world’s worst way to help people find the right software for their business, because every company is different. Every region in the world has very different business models. It was: you go to a vendor site, you fill out a form, some sales rep calls and qualifies you, and then you go through this awful process.

Education 123

Education Sales Hiring Software Review Sales Recruiting 123

SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

Justin Bedecarre: And another really important point that we really believe in is that you have to use data to drive decisions, right? You have to use data on how people are using the space. Justin, you actually made a really good point on data. How do I store data? Jen Nguyen: Yeah. How do I communicate?

Sales Recruiting 143

Sales Recruiting Cloud CTO Hire Scale 143

OpenView Labs

MAY 5, 2021

These days, on-premise deployments commonly come in the form of businesses running their own VMs in a cloud IaaS environment. Functionally, it’s the same as running a data center, and the customer still shoulders the burden of running the infrastructure. For some organizations, that’s a critical need.

Business 52

Business SMB Scale DevOps as a Service 52

Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. Sure, digital marketing spits off a wake of data and you’re likely going to be working with a bunch of software tools.

SaaS Payments 145

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 23, 2019

On the other side, there’s business-based innovation, which might have to do with how you go to market or a business model. Google Apps had captured significant market share, AWS was growing exponentially and Windows platforms were no longer the only game in town. Fast forward to 2013, and a lot had changed.

Innovation 41

Innovation Outsourced Development AWS Technology 41

Hacking Revenue

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

While these services significantly lowered the costs of starting a new business, I believe that the people who said that sentence were missing the point of starting a business – to build an always growing, sustainable brand. It is also what sets you up for long term business model and success.

Outsourcing Services 53

Outsourcing Services Branding Outsourced Development Scale 53

OpenView Labs

JUNE 25, 2019

As an important aside, it’s worth noting that product led growth (PLG) companies have a shorter CAC payback than companies with a traditional sales & marketing driven go-to-market model. The data doesn’t lie – PLG companies are more efficient. Positively Affecting: Tips for Reducing CAC Payback. Leverage PLG best practices.

Scale 40

Scale Development Team Review Software Review Benchmarks 40

SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

We’ve been honored to speak at every one of the SaaStr to date and it’s really become a high for us to release this data collab report here and so, you’re seeing for the first time, something that we’ve been working on for months and really a look back on 2018 and a little bit of predictions, in terms of what’s ahead.

Cloud 162

Cloud Scale Finance Retention 162

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

Get back into experimentation mode with our business model, with our pricing, to really think about not just how we can shrink costs, but inflect growth on the top line so we could ultimately control our own destiny, which is in fact what we did. It’s really to rally around facts and data as opposed to opinions.

Scale 177

Scale Sales Hiring Pricing Sales Recruiting 177