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Microsoft as a Mirror - What We Can Expect for SaaS in 2023

Tom Tunguz

I’m watching public company earnings to identify early weaknesses in the software market. We saw moderated consumption growth in Azure and lower-than-expected growth [elsewhere]. Just last week, we made Azure OpenAI Service broadly available, and already over 200 customers – from KPMG to Al Jazeera – are using it.

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Clouded Judgement 1.6.23

Clouded Judgement

Cloud Downgrades This week UBS came out with a couple research reports citing concerns in AWS / Azure growth. We know software is impacted from macro - but how bad will it get? This brings me back to AWS / Azure downgrades. Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies.

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Startup Best Practices 26 - Choosing Your Startup's Competitive Strategy

Tom Tunguz

Determining how to compete is a critical part of developing a startup idea. To do that, a startup must understand where opponents are strong, and where they are weak. By attacking the weak points and matching them to customer needs, a startup creates maximum leverage. The Azure team has built products to leverage that strength.

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Best application vulnerability assessment tools for software companies (paid & free)

Audacix

A vulnerability assessment tools or virtual app scanning for your software team has become as important as your git repository or your ticket management system. You might end up building a whole team in-house to support the open source tool of your choice, which, one would think, defeats the purpose of going open source in the first place?

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Top 11 Security Testing Tools to Use In Your CICD Pipelines

Audacix

Table Of Contents Security testing tools are crucial in software development lifecycles because they empower you and your software teams to shift left and help your developers proactively detect and mitigate security weaknesses which can be a security threat if left unattended. AWS, Azure or GCP.

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Best Data Analysis Software

Neil Patel

Your team is the very pulse of your business, which is why their skillset is the most crucial factor when it comes to choosing a software tool. Figure out the technical knowledge of your team. Do you have a team of engineers and data scientists who know programming languages like Python, SQL, and R? User Skillset.

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The best SaaS apps have these 7 web application security controls

Audacix

Application security is seldom considered during the ideation phase of web application development - unless the development team has previously been hacked and survived to tell the tale. The most secure web applications use best practice security features throughout the software development lifecycle.