Tom Tunguz

MAY 31, 2022

A broad software buyer index would be the best metric to understand how buyer preferences are changing across the market. Large SaaS and IaaS vendors are precisely that: indexes of software buyers. Microsoft Azure. Google Cloud Platform. Google Cloud Platform. Fortunately, it exists. Palo Alto Networks. Salesforce.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

Jessica Alexander, Senior Director Cloud Technology & OEM Partnerships, Crowdstrike. So for the audience, cloud giants are turbocharging startup sales, and the predominant reason for this is because they’re fundamentally changing IT budgets at the customers that we’re all selling to. Rico Mallozzi, Sr.

Scale 198

Scale Marketplace as a Service Cloud SaaS Payments 198

Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Retail sales / PPI also came in very hot, supporting the “strong consumer” narrative. Datadog Quarter Datadog is one of the software darlings. Subscribe now Share Clouded Judgement Leave a comment

Cloud 130

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Amanda Malko is CMO at G2, a software marketplace and review site that reaches over 60 million buyers annually across 2000 software categories. In this session, she shares insights and trends from research conducted this year that can help software buyers and sellers make smarter decisions about software and the market. .

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IT World

APRIL 26, 2023

Increased revenue across Microsoft’s cloud computing, Office software, and server segments have helped the tech giant see its net income reach $18.3 Server products and cloud services both saw revenue growth of 17%, with Azure revenue up 27%, while Office commercial products and cloud services revenue also grew by 13% this quarter.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2019

This is pretty darn impressive, and probably more importantly, shows the continued jaw-dropping growth of Cloud. Buy Microsoft Stock Because of Its Big Cloud Deals, Says JPMorgan. Microsoft Azure sales grew at 76% year over year in its most recent quarter. Amazon Web Services sharpens its focus on cloud security.

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Cloud Azure Scale Software Engineering 136

Neil Patel

JANUARY 25, 2021

Everyone has questions when it comes to choosing data analysis software. Luckily, data analysis software can seriously simplify data analysis—provided you choose the right one. How to Choose the Best Data Analysis Software for You. Data analysis software isn’t a cheap investment, so use caution when making a selection.

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Data Analysis Software Data Scale 128

SaaStr

APRIL 27, 2021

Just how fast is SaaS and Cloud growing? Cloud software spending grew a stunning 23% in 2021, from $270 billion to $330 billion. No matter what, the wave of enterprise spending that fueled 100 SaaS and Cloud unicorns is just getting bigger and strong. One thing we know — Fast. But that’s just the start.

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ProfitWell

MAY 12, 2020

The three major cloud service models are SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. These stand for software as a service, platform as a service, and infrastructure as a service. Cloud service models in 2020. Let's take a quick look at what it means to use software, platform, or infrastructure as service. What is SaaS? What is IaaS?

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Cloud Azure SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 59

Neil Patel

MARCH 27, 2023

Product pages drive direct sales. In late October, we analyzed the following software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies’ B2B product pages: Microsoft Azure Dropbox Asana Mailchimp Klaviyo Let’s look at what the data revealed about their B2B content strategies. Microsoft Azure was right behind Mailchimp with 934 words on the page.

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B2B Azure Software Review User Experience 102

Audacix

OCTOBER 5, 2019

As enterprises increasingly become more open to introducing cloud software to their environments, you as a cloud provider must proactively anticipate their concerns and address them. But they are considering all of them after your sales meetings have ended.

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Cloud Enterprise Software Review Cybersecurity 45

Tom Tunguz

MAY 25, 2017

A beer supplier sells to wholesaler sells to distributor sales to retailers sells to customer. In most software categories, incumbents exist and for start up to win share, the company must wrest budget of way from incumbents. The chart above is a value chain analysis at the company level for the cloud computing ecosystem.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Part 2: How to Automate your SaaS Expenses – Payroll with Gusto and QuickBooks Part 3: How to Automate your SaaS Expenses – QuickBooks Bank Rules Part 4: How to Choose SaaS Billing Software This post – Part 1 – focuses on how to categorize your SaaS expenses properly by using QuickBooks or Xero, and what are the benefits of doing so.

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Merchant Services Startup DevOps as a Service SaaS 90

How To Buy Saas

MARCH 21, 2024

One way to think of Software as a Service (SaaS) is as renting software instead of owning it. This is much the same but with software: you subscribe and get access to it (hosted on the cloud) without worrying about installation, maintenance, or updates. What Is SaaS? You know this very well thanks to Netflix.

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Audacix

OCTOBER 24, 2019

But it's also true that it's never too late to secure your cloud-based web app. In fact, smart and fast-growing cloud software companies who outperform their peers usually share this common trait: they consistently grow sales and build their brand by turning their security standards into a key differentiator and selling point.

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Cloud Cybersecurity Scale Transportation 49

Audacix

JULY 28, 2022

But it's also true that it's never too late to secure your cloud-based web app. In fact, smart and fast-growing cloud software companies who outperform their peers usually share this common trait: they consistently grow sales and build their brand by turning their security standards into a key differentiator and selling point.

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Audacix

OCTOBER 5, 2019

As enterprises increasingly become more open to introducing cloud software to their environments, you as a cloud provider must proactively anticipate their concerns and address them. But they are considering all of them after your sales meetings have ended.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Gartner is estimating that the cloud services industry as a whole will outpace the growth of overall IT services by a factor of three, with SaaS making up $143.7 28% of IT spending will shift to the cloud by 2022. Gartner is also predicting that nearly a third of IT spending will shift to the cloud by that same year.

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

TL;DR A SaaS product delivers software remotely, reducing the need for local installation, maintenance, and updates. Cloud computing offers three main service models: SaaS for ready-to-use software, PaaS for application development frameworks, and IaaS for scalable virtualized computing resources.

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2023

Buying software has changed significantly over the past 27 years. His first software-buying journey at age 24 involved researching in magazines, calling companies, and receiving demo CDs in the mail. What did software buying look like in the ‘90s? Software was physically shipped to you after purchase.

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Marketplace as a Service Software Review Technical Review Azure 203

User Pilot

APRIL 29, 2024

Service providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure offer server hosting and load-balancing services. Service providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft Azure offer infrastructure services that support backend development. Web server.

Azure 52

Azure GCP(Google Cloud Platform) AWS Construction 52

OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

In February 2020, the public cloud market surpassed a $1 trillion market cap, with a 45% growth rate, as reported in Bessemer Venture Partners’ 2020 State of Cloud report. This data revealed a clear picture of where cloud marketplaces are heading in 2021. Here’s what we learned. . What’s accelerating this marketplace movement?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 6, 2022

We help B2B SaaS marketers turn organic search into a source of repeatable revenue through software and coaching. DuploCloud offers an end-to-end DevOps software platform for dev teams that don’t have dedicated DevOps engineers and augments those that do. Prismatic is the integration platform for B2B software companies.

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GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Azure AWS compliance 198

SmartKarrot

MAY 11, 2023

Businesses can utilize conversation intelligence platforms to enhance their sales and customer service strategies. Beat Competition Based on a study conducted by Forrester Consulting, 89% of marketers have stated how using AI conversation intelligence software is crucial to staying competitive in their business industry.

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Artificial Intelligence Azure Sales Hiring Machine Learning 10

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 21, 2024

Leaders are starting to reallocate AI investments to recurring software budget lines. In 2024, however, many leaders are reallocating that spend to more permanent software line items; fewer than a quarter reported that genAI spend will come from innovation budgets this year. Use cases: more migrating to production 14.

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Generative AI AI Enterprise Artificial Intelligence 145

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

If you didn’t catch it the other day … and you can read about it on SaaStr …Microsoft and Google Cloud both had extremely strong quarters, Microsoft Azure grew 40% last quarter , and a record number of nine-figure and billion-dollar deals. We need this money to get sales and marketing going.

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SaaStr

APRIL 28, 2021

As a startup, you’re doing a million things at once: building a product, answering customer tickets, developing a sales playbook, trying out different marketing hacks, and keeping the lights on. Security, besides having a password that isn’t “password123”, is probably not a major priority. . Blog post sponsored by Secureframe.

Enterprise 203

Enterprise Software Review Azure GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 203

User Pilot

MAY 30, 2023

Sales teams. Decide on critical CDP software features Now, it’s time to think about priorities. Host in your Google Cloud for top-class privacy, security, and GDPR compliance. You need to contact their sales team for a quote and they’ll suggest a pricing plan for your business needs. Marketing teams.

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Azure Government Marketplace as a Service Data 98

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

373: Bessemer’s 5th Annual State of the Cloud Report returns for a definitive look at the cloud industry today. We want to take you through the cloud journey over the last several years. Now, the cloud index fell along with it. If you go back to before 2014, what you see is the power of the cloud.

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All that Saas

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Today, we are going to review Showell , a sales enablement and collaboration solution for modern businesses. Showell allows Sales teams to: Have access to their latest sales collateral, Collaborate with prospects during face-to-face or virtual sales meetings, Track how their prospects consume this content. Professional.

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Software Review Systems Review Pricing Sales Enablement 52

SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Power BI is a Microsoft product, and it works with Azure only, now that is a huge limitation. The on-premise solution lacks the cloud solution’s Business Intelligence features. Chartio is a powerful, award-winning, cloud-based analytics tool with an easy-to-use drag-and-drop user interface. Offers limited customization.

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Underperforming Technical Team Business SaaS Cloud 10

SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

Justin Bedecarre: Whereas if you’re a software company, you can wait until, you don’t have to compel people to come in sooner than they feel safe. We’re using digital workflows and storing data in the cloud, but the rest of the world, this was an overnight just shift in how people worked and how they communicated.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Just as SaaS companies are aware that hosting, professional services, customer support, and third-party licenses, sit squarely in COGs—so too are there continuing questions about whether customer success, sales commissions, and R&D expenses should sit in COGs or should be in OPEX. Cloud Operations and Platform Support.

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Benchmarks Artificial Intelligence Systems Review Cloud 52

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

333: Bridget Gleason is the Head of Sales and Customer Success @ Tidelift, the company providing managed open source, backed by maintainers. Before Tidelift, Bridget was VP of Sales @ Logz.io and before that was VP of Corporate Sales @ Sumo Logic where she drove ARR up by a record 237%.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 9, 2021

This larger percentage of investment in early-stage funding rounds signals an industry ripe with growth potential and sales opportunities. TL;DR: Early-stage cybersecurity venture funding = new sales opportunities for you. Orca Security provides security and compliance for Amazon Web Services , Azure , and Google Cloud Platform.

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Cybersecurity Sales Hiring Scale compliance 104

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Chris Degnan , Chief Revenue Officer of Snowflake Computing, one of the fastest growing SaaS platforms in the world. Chris walks us through his habits, his principles, and his system for enterprise sales. Staffing a team of field sales, inside sales, and sales engineers in lockstep.

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 66

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

As SaaStr Europa 2022 drew to a close, attendees took one more opportunity to ask Jason questions about topics like how to navigate the current market, the future of work, playing in a crowded space, and hiring your first VP of Sales. It was funny for Henry to say he segmented his sales team at 80 million in ARR. Transcript.

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