Clouded Judgement

MAY 10, 2024

All 3 (AWS, Azure, GCP) saw positive reacceleration Quarterly Reports Summary Top 10 EV / NTM Revenue Multiples Top 10 Weekly Share Price Movement Update on Multiples SaaS businesses are generally valued on a multiple of their revenue - in most cases the projected revenue for the next 12 months.

Cloud 161

Cloud Software GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Azure 161

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. Microsoft Azure load balancer.

Azure 52

Azure GCP(Google Cloud Platform) AWS Construction 52

Clouded Judgement

MARCH 22, 2024

Subscribe now ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) vs ERR (Experimental Runrate Revenue) ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) is one of the most popular SaaS (Non-GAAP) metrics. However, it’s also one of the most loosely used metrics, and is frequently misused. I created this subset to show companies where FCF is a relevant valuation metric.

AI 183

AI Revenue Cloud Technical Advisors 183

Clouded Judgement

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Maybe with the exception of hyperscalers (particularly Azure). Namely, two large customers caused a huge issue (New Relic account growing very slowly post their acquisition, and a gaming company going back on prem - which I’m guessing means going to self managed Kafka?). All the headwinds that have persisted continue to persist.

Software Review 161

Software Review Cloud Software Azure 161

Clouded Judgement

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

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. I created this subset to show companies where FCF is a relevant valuation metric.

Cloud 183

Cloud Artificial Intelligence AI GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 183

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The SaaS “Rule of 40” has gained popularity due to its simplicity, requiring only two common financial metrics to be added together. Ultimately, the “Rule of 40” is ONLY a metric. You can’t pay your Azure bill or office lease in “Rule of 40” points.

SaaS 263

SaaS Technical Review Benchmarks Azure 263

User Pilot

MAY 30, 2023

TL;DR A customer data platform is a tool enabling you to collect, manage, store, and analyze data, which ultimately helps you better understand customer behavior. Here are a few to consider: Customer data unification and data management. A CDP is about managing and understanding insights from user data. Advanced analytics.

Azure 86

Azure Government Marketplace as a Service Data 86

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 21, 2024

While they are relying on NPS and customer satisfaction as good proxy metrics, they’re also looking for more tangible ways to measure returns, such as revenue generation, savings, efficiency, and accuracy gains, depending on their use case. 2B run-rate revenue, including spend on OpenAI models via Azure.

Generative AI 145

Generative AI AI Enterprise Artificial Intelligence 145

Neil Patel

MARCH 27, 2023

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. With a simple UX design, the company managed to rank for 320 keywords with an organic keyword ranking of almost 500.

B2B 102

B2B Azure Software Review User Experience 102

SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2023

Another shift in the history of software buying is CFOs and management teams pressing buyers to negotiate short-term contracts. They can provide big-picture ROI, but they don’t have hard ROI metrics, benchmarks, and success stories. If you have an in-depth ROI figure, talk to customers very early about this value. SaaS changed that.

Marketplace as a Service 206

Marketplace as a Service Software Review Technical Review Azure 206

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

Azure’s marketplace has over 4 million monthly visitors. We aligned with finance, with sales operations, as well as the sales leaders to say, here are some impacts that a cloud marketplace could have on our business and what would your metrics or successful outcomes be? AWS’s marketplace has seen 1.5

Scale 200

Scale Marketplace as a Service Cloud SaaS Payments 200

Clouded Judgement

JUNE 20, 2023

Through these interactions, I’ve built up mental benchmarks for metrics on which I place extra emphasis. My hope is that this analysis can provide startup entrepreneurs with a framework for how to manage their businesses around SaaS metrics (e.g., This metric is more self-explanatory, so I won’t go into detail.

Cloud 161

Cloud Software Benchmarks Scale 161

Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

SaaS companies deliver software applications over the internet on a subscription basis, simplifying access and management for users. Some well-known examples are Adobe, a design and creator platform, Autodesk, a leading construction management system; and Meditech, a healthcare information systems solution. What are SaaS companies?

Outsourcing Services 88

Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods 88

Neil Patel

JANUARY 25, 2021

These tools should help you understand your business in more detail, including important metrics, inventory, and sales numbers. It can identify market trends, uncover insights, determine outliers, and monitor crucial business metrics. You should be able to identify problem areas, along with ways to improve them. System Integration.

Data Analysis 128

Data Analysis Software Data Scale 128

Frontegg

JUNE 17, 2021

This will let you achieve optimal security and performance metrics, but these boxes will not be fully utilized. SaaS is a profitable, smooth, and manageable methodology. These SaaS ecosystems are often under-utilized and very costly to configure, manage, and maintain. Related: Common Security Pitfalls of User Management.

ECS (Elastic Container Service) 97

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

Baremetrics

JULY 8, 2021

Right away, its analytics tools made it easy to calculate key SaaS metrics and segment customers based on customizable attributes. MetricFire allows you to use Graphite-as-a-service to have your metrics displayed on user-friendly and aesthetically-pleasing Grafana dashboards. Solution: They signed up for Baremetrics.

Payment Services 105

Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments SaaS Payments 105

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

If you don’t want to manage all of the infrastructure around Iceberg (plus allocating headcount to do this!) Typical data lake storage solutions include AWS S3, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Google Cloud Storage (GCS) or Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). Iceberg is one ingredient in the fully packaged Tabular lakehouse.

Data 130

Data Government Scale GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 130

CloudGeometry

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

In a shared environment, complete isolation involves more mechanisms, such as Identity & Access Management (aka IAM), to ensure tenants can access only those resources they are entitled to see. Another essential benefit of identity in a tenant context is that it aids in capturing and analyzing events from logs & metrics.

Well Architected Framework 130

Well Architected Framework SaaS AWS Construction 130

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. Microsoft Azure’s at incredible scale and it still grew 40% last quarter.

Scale 196

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling SaaS 196

Audacix

JUNE 9, 2023

Only the best DAST tools provide automated tools to help you catalogue your APIs so that you never forget to test an endpoint and so that your API management burden also reduces. This type of automated penetration testing tool is invaluable if you have an API-heavy or single-page web applications.

Software Review 66

Software Review Software DevOps as a Service AWS 66

OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 7, 2021

To help its big users manage the cost increases that would result from the switch, the company devised a bonus credit system, which enables companies to pay less per use as their volume increases. It has tended to be used most in infrastructure platforms, like AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. Closely watched SaaS metrics.

Subscription 52

Subscription Payment Features Pricing SaaS 52

Frontegg

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Most user management providers today work with platforms like Amazon, LinkedIn, Github, Instagram, Apple, Reddit, and more. There is a prerequisite for using this social login – registering the application or website with Azure AD before getting started. Let’s take a closer look. Apple Social Login. So is the hype justified?

Underperforming Technical Team 105

Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Azure Mobile 105

ProfitWell

MAY 12, 2020

Starting with SaaS, there's very little for the user to manage. None of the options require as much self-management from the user as a dedicated on-premise solution would. Data and software — SaaS users do not have to worry about managing data usage, or application upkeep. Let's take a closer look. SaaS benefits.

Cloud 59

Cloud Azure SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 59

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The main benefits of categorizing your SaaS company’s expenses are more accurate metrics and forecasts, and getting a better understanding of your company’s overall spending. While not a GAAP-metric, it’s widely adopted and understood (examples here , here and here ). This is a v2.0

Merchant Services 90

Merchant Services Startup DevOps as a Service SaaS 90

OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In addition, systems used to manage professional services, such as project management software like Monday.com, or portions of ERP systems like Intacct which manage time and expense for professional services personnel should be included in COGs. Fully loaded professional services personnel expenses should be included in COGs.

Benchmarks 52

Benchmarks Artificial Intelligence Systems Review Cloud 52

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Consider also that the Google algorithm ranks websites by load speed, among other metrics. From here, the script collects data from users across various performance metrics and reports back to the RUM interface. AppDynamics is an application performance management solution. 1 – UptimeRobot – Best Free Website Monitoring Service.

DevOps as a Service 145

DevOps as a Service Software Review GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Systems Review 145

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. Get ProfitWell Metrics.

SaaS Payments 66

SaaS Payments Trends Merchant Services Payments 66

Chart Mogul

APRIL 7, 2022

ChartMogul offers data settings that give you full control over how your metrics are calculated. You can see how individual MRR movements track from your billing system to your metrics in ChartMogul, directly within our UI. We offer direct integrations with Amazon S3, Azure Blob, Google Storage for cloud services. Data import.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Systems Review Churn Azure 52

Neil Patel

JANUARY 7, 2022

Add canonical tags to manage duplicate content. Popular CDN’s include: Rackspace, Amazon CloudFront, and Microsoft Azure. In addition to speed, other areas of website performance to measure are your content, on-site behavior, and user acquisition metrics. Remove old redirects. Overcome Geographical Location Limitations.

Mobile 130

Mobile Azure Scale User Experience 130

ProfitWell

MAY 15, 2020

Platform as a service, PaaS, is also a cloud computing but service providers deliver platforms to clients, allowing them to develop, run, and manage business applications without the need to build and maintain the infrastructure. Some PaaS examples include Windows Azure, Google App Engine, and Force.com. Integrated with your stack.

SaaS Payments 75

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 75

Frontegg

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Related: Top User Management Open Source Projects. Also known as Security Assertion Markup Language, SAML is an open framework that conveys authorization data from identity providers (Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Azure, etc.) Now that we have covered these clarifications, let’s get started. What is SAML? in a secure way.

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review Azure Mobile 52

Frontegg

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Related: Top User Management Open Source Projects. Also known as Security Assertion Markup Language, SAML is an open framework that conveys authorization data from identity providers (Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Azure, etc.) Now that we have covered these clarifications, let’s get started. What is SAML? in a secure way.

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review Azure Mobile 52

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

And yet it’s often tucked away in a financial update while a medley of product metrics enjoy the spotlight. It needs to be treated as a top-level operational metric that a founder must know and understand. Make managing and reviewing gross margin an organization-wide priority. Managing gross margin.

Scale 52

Scale Payment Methods Payment Services Systems Review 52

Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 22, 2021

And we know how important it is for you to be able to track your metrics on the move. They also have a VC feature that lets you track metrics for multiple ChartMogul accounts at once. API access management — we now allow for multiple user-level API keys (vs only having admin keys previously). Read more about this setting here.

Software Review 52

Software Review Systems Review Payment Features PayPal 52

All that Saas

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Dedicated account manager. The team was able to upload and manage documents, videos, animations, images, weblinks, and AR/3D content. Team Management and Communication. Good team management can only come from stellar communication. This allows better team management and seamless, almost error-free communication.

Software Review 52

Software Review Systems Review Pricing Sales Enablement 52

Chart Mogul

JANUARY 28, 2022

In a series of articles, we will share our experiences about: Our journey to AWS EKS (Kubernetes managed service). Since our inception in 2014 and up to mid-2021, our entire infrastructure has run on DigitalOcean droplets (self-managed cloud virtual machines). Lack of modern cloud features and managed services. Managed services.

K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) 52

K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 52

Neil Patel

JANUARY 21, 2021

They all use the WordPress content management system (CMS) to power their websites. Users add them to improve their WordPress sites in all kinds of ways, including article enhancement, security, managing comments, and optimizing content to rank higher in search engines. Honestly, we aren’t surprised. WordPress is awesome.

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods Software Review Scale Payments 145