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?”

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

And if you think about AWS, if you think about the rise of cloud data warehousing, that is a big technology change and a big game changer for a lot of companies. Instead of being automated out of his job, he’s now leveraging machine learning to help him do his job better and increasing his value to the company.

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Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

You must constantly be innovating, and companies will be spending more and more on this for an awful long time." It's a culture of constant learning and upgrading. I think that humans like to trust other humans, and therefore we're putting a lot of emphasis on machine learning to help the customer to help themselves”.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The wave of SaaS companies that built themselves on the likes of AWS and Azure have reinforced the pre-eminence of cloud computing. It has been an eventful, often fraught decade in tech, then, and that’s not even to mention artificial intelligence or machine learning, Alexa or Siri, Bitcoin or WeWork, Edward Snowden or GDPR.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 25, 2022

Examples of cost management software include in-platform cost optimization modules like GCP Billing and AWS Cost Explorer. Cost Management Software Cost management and optimization tools can help you save money by highlighting unnecessary expenses such as unused instances or superfluous instance sizing.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

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. This has always been a bad idea, but in the days of machine learning and massive data, it can kill a business.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Products like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the rise of engineering talent globally have reduced the barrier of entry for software startups in recent years. Buyers aren’t locked into long-term purchases the same way they were with on-premises solutions. There’s more competition and more choices for software buyers.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Machine learning is only as keen as the data set it analyzes. The content that resonates best with buyers discusses issues and tells great stories, says Cameron Tanner at AWS. At the US Open, IBM promoted to use of artificial intelligence to find match highlights based on audience noise levels, but that’s only one data point.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Whether it’s data being used inside applications, feeding machine learning models, or downstream analysis, companies are increasingly reliant on this data, and that’s not changing. 80% of data is unstructured within organizations.

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How To Buy Saas

APRIL 25, 2024

The first improvements were related to attempts to handle big data, expanding to machine learning-based analytics and predictive modeling. Platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS), launched in 2006, offered scalable infrastructure that could handle growth without performance issues, revolutionizing IT operations.

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OpenView Labs

AUGUST 8, 2019

Honestly, I’m a machine learning enthusiast in my spare time, and I have no inkling of what models, etc. “Lead scoring” is not the answer to your problems. Google “Lead Scoring Tools” and you’ll get ~60M results, and tons of ads that promise you the world in terms of predictive lead scoring and AI.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2021

Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, Global Vice President for AWS Storage will deliver one of the keynotes. Cloud data lakes are a key technology enabling the innovation in analytics and machine learning. This time, the conference will build on the foundation from last year’s event. Data engines query the data rapidly, inexpensively.

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Audacix

JUNE 9, 2023

AWS WAF is a great option for software and DevOps teams that are already using AWS services or looking for a scalable and flexible WAF solution. AWS WAF is a great option for software and DevOps teams that are already using AWS services or looking for a scalable and flexible WAF solution.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2019

And so just really inspiring to hear somebody that’s running such a massive platform that has marketing responsibility for Google Cloud Platform competing with AWS and Azure, at the same time that she’s running, you know, all of the apps that I use everyday—Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, so really, really inspiring message.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

Machine learning can get the right message or recommendation out in a responsive way – not just from the customer’s next best action, but from the sales perspective, too. Just from a platform perspective, we can look at it: everybody knows from the AWS perspective how inexpensive it is to go to market.

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Valerian Tech

JULY 18, 2023

Serverless platforms, such as AWS Lambda and Azure Functions, automatically scale resources based on demand, providing agility and cost optimization. Tools like Terraform and AWS CloudFormation enable infrastructure to be defined in code, promoting consistency, repeatability, and scalability across environments.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Just like machine learning before it disappeared in the background, AI will soon be so ubiquitous that it’s no longer a differentiator. Chatbots and virtual assistants using natural language processing and machine learning will become the norm for things like customer support. In a better way too.”

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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. Obviously that’s not really so relevant today. What kind of role do you think the rise of the public has paid?

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

We sat down for a chat with our own Fergal Reid, Principal Machine Learning Engineer, to learn why Answer Bot had to evolve past simply answering questions to focus on solving problems at scale. Fergal Reid: I lead the Machine Learning team at Intercom. I joined Intercom about two and a half years ago.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

This company uses IoT and machine learning to help businesses run more smoothly. The company offers a data analytics platform based on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Clouds, and Microsoft Azure. This company’s objective is to develop smart technology that provides facilities for all employees that engage in any firm.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. What we’ve built is this core AI machine learning engine that takes literally millions and millions of unique sources so that we can deliver 95% accuracy to our clients. It is staggering. Even at spectacular scale, they’re still growing at 30%.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 3, 2020

Causal modeling and prediction systems are improving rapidly, driven by machine learning and related technologies. This is already the norm for infrastructure software products and tools like Atlassian, GitHub, GitLab, AWS and so on. The other direction will be performance-based, or outcome-based, pricing.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

Sameer Dhokalia: It turns out if you do ask those two basic questions of 100 people in your business, you will learn an awful lot about what needs to be focused on. You needed to understand how do we keep the bad actors out and use machine learning to prevent spammers and phishers from taking advantage of our system.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 4, 2016

AWS listed business productivity category on their product page which includes collaboration tool to compete with Box and a hosted email product to compete with Gmail and Outlook. This oligopoly on machine learning talent releases advances faster than any start up could. Amazon released a mobile analytics product. I could go on.

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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

78 times in the AWS … ADABAS was referenced in the Amazon press release and earnings announcement. Byron : Now, over the weekend, as some of us were watching kind of a snooze fest football game, maybe drinking a beer which apparently has corn syrup in it, who knew? Twice for retail.

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