Clouded Judgement

APRIL 11, 2024

Through these interactions, I’ve built up mental benchmarks for metrics on which I place extra emphasis. It looks at the YoY dollar change in quarterly revenue from the hyperscalers (just looking at Azure / AWS because the data goes back further) going back a few years. net retention and CAC payback).

Cloud 184

Cloud Software Azure AWS 184

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 21, 2024

This is still the case in 2024, which means that the correlation between CSP and preferred model is fairly high: Azure users generally preferred OpenAI, while Amazon users preferred Anthropic or Cohere. 2B run-rate revenue, including spend on OpenAI models via Azure.

Generative AI 145

Generative AI Enterprise AI Artificial Intelligence 145

Clouded Judgement

JUNE 20, 2023

Through these interactions, I’ve built up mental benchmarks for metrics on which I place extra emphasis. On the Microsoft earnings call they said (related to Azure): “But at some point, workloads just can't be optimized much further. net retention and CAC payback). My interpretation is we’re in the bottoming phase.

Cloud 167

Cloud Software Benchmarks Scale 167

OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Benchmarking COGs Against the Bessemer Index. The bottom line is that Cloud business models vary, so benchmarks for Cloud COGs or gross margin can vary. With the increasing complexity of models and ways to develop and deliver Cloud products, it is even more vital for SaaS companies to benchmark against peers in the coming year.

Benchmarks 52

Benchmarks Artificial Intelligence Systems Review Cloud 52

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

03:08] Data wars [04:28] Big vs. small LLMs [08:13] Fine-tuning [13:52] Open source AI [17:51] Benchmarks are b t [19:30] Why Ali isn’t afraid of AI Why is it so hard for enterprise to adopt AI? It will be like AWS, GCP, and Azure. I kinda think all the benchmarks are b t. Ali: I think the answer is closer to the latter.

Enterprise 110

Enterprise AI Artificial Intelligence Generative AI 110

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Cost of Revenue Examples Hosting AWS / Google Cloud / Azure Payroll – Customer Support Service Delivery Costs Twilio, Sendgrid Merchant Fees Stripe, Braintree You should also include software that helps your support team, such as Help Scout, or your Devops, such as CircleCI.

Startup 90

Startup Merchant Services DevOps as a Service SaaS 90

Audacix

JUNE 9, 2023

Well CSPM is one of the prongs that makes Cyber Chief so powerful and a very well-rounded tool for many of your cloud app security needs. It helps some large enterprises maintain a strong cloud security status by identifying and remediating misconfigurations, monitoring user activity, and detecting threats in real-time.

Software Review 66

Software Review Software DevOps as a Service AWS 66

How To Buy Saas

MAY 27, 2025

Below we survey the cutting-edge LLMs of 2025 both commercial and open-source highlighting their key features, performance benchmarks, and use cases in AI workflows. Performance-wise, GPT-4 Turbo leads many benchmarks. Key takeaways: GPT-4 Turbo (128K context) is state-of-the-art for generative tasks, with strong benchmarks.

Artificial Intelligence 40

Artificial Intelligence AI Search AI Software Review 40

OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Microsoft’s recent deal with SAP to bring SAP cloud customers onto the Azure platform, together with similar deals with Oracle and VMWare, gives AWS a run for its money. We have seen greater efficiency and increased productivity in the use of capital and labor in our benchmarking over the past five years.

Trends 40

Trends Marketing SaaS Azure 40

User Pilot

JULY 23, 2020

It’s easy to get hung up on sectoral benchmarks that ignore the huge variety of business types covered by a term like “SaaS” – which range from the incredibly sticky, such as AWS and Microsoft Azure, to services customers may only use rarely. All that matters is: The retention rate you have now.

Retention 95

Retention SaaS Payments Strategy Payment Solutions 95

All that Saas

JULY 8, 2021

The software integrates well with over 65 tools like Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Engine, Google App Engine, and many others to deliver a seamless user experience. Klaviyo offers a wide range of resources like webinars, guides, live training, benchmark reports, and much more to help users in improving their email marketing strategy.

Software Review 52

Software Review Marketing Software Scale 52

SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2023

They can provide big-picture ROI, but they don’t have hard ROI metrics, benchmarks, and success stories. We’re seeing a growing trend of buyers making SaaS purchases through global marketplaces such as the AWS Marketplace and Azure Marketplace. If you have an in-depth ROI figure, talk to customers very early about this value.

Marketplace as a Service 246

Marketplace as a Service Software Review Technical Review Azure 246

Full Session

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Mixpanel connects to 50+ popular software, including Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Hubspot, Microsoft Azure, Optimizely, Slack, Snowflake, and Zendesk. They can also be used for A/B testing and benchmarking features, monitoring how users respond to the different versions of your website, landing page, or specific features.

Software Review 52

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Business Technical Review 52

How To Buy Saas

JUNE 3, 2025

Access and integration : Some LLMs offer public APIs or cloud deployment (ChatGPT, Claude, Mistral on Azure), while open models can be self-hosted. LLM Performance Benchmark Comparison (2025) Model MMLU HumanEval GSM8K / AIME Context Window Token Speed Pricing (per 1M tokens) DeepSeek R1-0528 84.9% Claude 4 Opus 88.8% SWE-bench: 72.5%

Artificial Intelligence 59

Artificial Intelligence Software Review Development Team Review Technical Review 59

Scytale

MARCH 5, 2025

Moreover, Nessus simplifies compliance with built-in configuration templates for CIS benchmarks and streamlines remediation by grouping similar vulnerabilities, allowing teams to prioritize the most critical threats efficiently.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Cybersecurity compliance Cloud 52

Scytale

MARCH 5, 2025

Moreover, Nessus simplifies compliance with built-in configuration templates for CIS benchmarks and streamlines remediation by grouping similar vulnerabilities, allowing teams to prioritize the most critical threats efficiently.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Cybersecurity compliance Cloud 52

How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

was trained with more data and new techniques on OpenAIs Azure supercomputers , making it an even more robust AI assistant. for GPT-4 on the same benchmark This means GPT-4.5 is not aimed at topping logic-heavy benchmarks its optimized for helpfulness in everyday scenarios So, if you throw a very complicated puzzle at it, GPT-4.5

ChatGPT 40

ChatGPT AI Search Software Review AI 40