FastSpring

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Looking to join SaaS founders and tech enthusiasts who are discussing the most innovative trends for SaaS companies? It is the largest in-person event in the country—2,000+ attendees, 800+ companies, and 100+ speakers—along with features such as Betakit Keynote Stage, AWS Pitchfest, Workspaces Tradeshow.

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Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Amazon on AWS : “…customers are continuing to shift their focus towards driving innovation and bringing new workloads to the cloud. Follow along to stay up to date!

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How To Buy Saas

JUNE 18, 2025

For SaaS and tech firms, the message is clear: mastering the full-stack AI (data pipelines, compute, ML models and application layers) is critical for innovation and growth. leads in innovation, it also drives conversations on AI safety and ethics.) This surging investment spans AI chips, cloud platforms, and smart software.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 29, 2025

This vivid idea captures AIs potential to act as assistants and insights machines, boosting efficiency and innovation. AI systems can process vast datasets and spot trends or risks that humans might miss. As another source emphasizes, leaders with AI knowledge drive innovation, optimize decision-making, and maintain a competitive edge.

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Blulogix

MAY 21, 2025

That enables: Better alignment between IT and finance Smarter investment decisions The ability to justify innovation (e.g., AI, cloud migrations, platform consolidation) For example, instead of saying We need $5M for cloud, IT can now say, Our AWS costs support 12 agencies. Heres the cost trend. Heres a breakdown.

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Clouded Judgement

JULY 26, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. The rate of innovation in the AI markets is staggering, and a reminder that it’s really hard for anyone (big companies especially) to “fully commit” to an AI strategy or vendor. Follow along to stay up to date! Absent the Llama 3.1

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

My background as a SaaS entrepreneur, and then share the big trends we’re seeing in the world of SaaS, both what we’re seeing over the next few years and then also zeroing in on what has changed in the last few weeks in the middle of this COVID crisis. This was a 30 year mega trend into the future.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

ABOUT IN THE VAULT “In the Vault” is a new audio podcast series by the a16z Fintech team, where we sit down with the most influential figures in financial services to explore key trends impacting the industry and the pressing innovations that will shape our future. Follow this show on our podcast feed so you don't miss an episode.

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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. Retail was mentioned twice, that’s it, and AWS was mentioned 78 times, so it’s probably not surprising that they’re doing this. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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How To Buy Saas

APRIL 25, 2024

Staying ahead of the curve is crucial since emerging trends influence the direction the sector will take in the coming years. Despite bringing innovations, the industry of that time faced tremendous upfront costs and restricted accessibility. This leads us to explore new trends that artificial intelligence has brought to the table.

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Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The rise of foundation models and generative AI only furthers this trend. Typical data lake storage solutions include AWS S3, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Google Cloud Storage (GCS) or Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). In truth, innovations in the past few years are helping evolve the data lake (swamp) into a data lakehouse!

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Teamgate

JUNE 27, 2025

Meanwhile, Adobe , SAP , and AWS lean on CHAMP to navigate intricate, multi-stakeholder sales processes. BANT doesn’t account for these complexities , making it less effective for enterprise-level sales or innovative solutions where prospects may not fully understand the value or investment required. Learn More Abe D.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Byron Deeter and Elliott Robinson, partners at Bessemer Venture Partners, offer macro trends in the public and private cloud markets, strategic advice to cloud founders, and insights into why entrepreneurs should feel auspicious about the future. We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform.

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Teamgate

JUNE 11, 2025

Industry users have praised Live Traffic Alerts for giving teams greater control over alert settings and improving data trend analysis. The API Catalog is particularly useful for identifying deviations in performance trends, helping to pinpoint issues with business-critical endpoints. Learn More Abe D.

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Valerian Tech

JULY 18, 2023

In this blog post, we will delve into the world of cloud computing, exploring recent trends and developments. Understanding Cloud Computing and Recent Trends Cloud computing refers to the delivery of computing resources, including storage, processing power, and software applications, over the internet.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 26, 2024

Cultivate an organizational culture that fosters customer-centricity , innovation, and cross-functional collaboration. For example, your AWS bill will most likely go up, but this is the case regardless of the growth model. Both free and paid users need on-demand access to support. What is the product-led growth strategy?

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Blulogix

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Innovation Acceleration Technology providers are incentivized to offer superior services and optimize their offerings. The adoption of usage-based pricing fuels innovation and ensures that customers have access to the latest and most efficient technologies. Reduced churn is a natural outcome of usage-based pricing.

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User Pilot

APRIL 29, 2024

Your tech stack not only defines the backbone of your business operations but also influences your ability to innovate, scale, and deliver exceptional value to your customers. Service providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure offer server hosting and load-balancing services.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). As the pace of releasing new features has accelerated, it takes less and less time for competitors to copy your latest product innovation.

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Microsoft offers enterprise solutions, productivity suites, and cloud services for both B2B and B2C sectors, emphasizing innovation and efficiency. Key examples are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, which provide scalable resources like virtual servers and storage. Mixpanel analytical dashboard.

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InsightOutData

AUGUST 6, 2021

Data exploration type of visuals help managers spot trends in data, identify anomalies, and explore datasets further for new patterns.xc2xa0 4. Visualizations to communicate trends and make decisions is a need for all of them. Similarly, in complex systems like self-driving cars, industrial systems, and similar tasks in Industry 4.0

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User Pilot

JULY 28, 2024

They are basically detectives who uncover hidden patterns and trends in data, which businesses can then use to make better decisions. They are basically detectives who uncover hidden patterns and trends in data, which businesses can then use to make better decisions. Bonus points : Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

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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. . If you want to learn more about cloud marketplace macro trends, read the full State of Cloud Marketplaces 2020. .

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 27, 2025

Data scientists can run Llama 3 on-premise or via cloud partners like AWS Bedrock, Azure, IBM, etc. Many innovators use Llama 3 in LLM workflows for research, chatbots, data analysis, or even as the base for building new agents. These proprietary models are trained by AWS and integrated with Bedrock Agents/Knowledge Bases.

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Sylvia Ng

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Innovative. Work across the stack: mostly Python/Flask, PostgreSQL, JavaScript (React/JQuery/Backbone) and working with AWS. Create innovative technology that delights our users so that they are willing to share their positive experience with their friends, colleagues and acquaintances. Sylvia’s Favorites. Self motivated.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

ABOUT IN THE VAULT “In the Vault” is a new audio podcast series by the a16z Fintech team, where we sit down with the most influential figures in financial services to explore key trends impacting the industry and the pressing innovations that will shape our future. Follow this show on our podcast feed so you don't miss an episode.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). As the pace of releasing new features has accelerated, it takes less and less time for competitors to copy your latest product innovation.

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User Pilot

JULY 14, 2024

They are basically detectives who uncover hidden patterns and trends in data, which businesses can then use to make better decisions. They are basically detectives who uncover hidden patterns and trends in data, which businesses can then use to make better decisions. Analyze data to identify patterns and trends.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Using LLMs to enhance these solutions will no longer be seen as innovative but will become the standard.” If the trend continues into 2024 as expected, it could foreshadow accelerating growth for SaaS companies.” Our data shows this shift tends to signal improving market conditions for SaaS companies.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

ABOUT IN THE VAULT “In the Vault” is a new audio podcast series by the a16z Fintech team, where we sit down with the most influential figures in financial services to explore key trends impacting the industry and the pressing innovations that will shape our future. So, you touched on trend one, which I think is really obvious now.

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SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2025

The False Choice: Integration vs. Innovation Legacy vendors are making a fatal mistake. It’s the same psychological principle that made AWS dominant. Customers trusted AWS partly because they knew she could leave if needed. Does this integrate with my AI workflow, or force me into theirs? The choice is binary.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2025

So Mary Meeker has been doing extremely well researched, deep analyses of internet trends since the earliest days the web took off. The Meta-Learning: Speed Is Everything Every one of these trends points to the same conclusion: This technology cycle is moving faster than anything in human history. 300+ pages.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). As the pace of releasing new features has accelerated, it takes less and less time for competitors to copy your latest product innovation.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Here, we trace some of the biggest trends and stories in technology over the past decade, and try to find a narrative to make sense of it all. There is a great responsibility to ensure it trends towards the former, not the latter. Big tech takes over. Rise of the cloud and SaaS businesses.

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 18, 2021

A good product with lousy support is the same as an awful product with good support in terms of customer retention. And as the world innovates faster than ever before, customer perceptions become even more critical. While you don’t want to ignore all bad reviews, look for trends in how people are complaining.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2019

Mikkel : Well again, the public cloud, AWS, was the dominant leader. We are seeing platform shifts from how they traditionally run their infrastructure and services and business to seeing them run that stuff on AWS. What kind of customer experience, what kind of innovation do we need to help do you gather?

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 18, 2019

High costs of living plus modern collaboration tools, changing preferences, and startup success in other geographies push this trend into the mainstream. The ecosystem continues to innovate but the second killer app (currency being the first), hasn't yet been found. Across our portfolio, we're seeing this.

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