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SaaS Company Benchmarking: Leveraging Metrics for Performance Insights

OPEXEngine

The Value of Benchmarking. The last two decades of SaaS evolution has generated an enormous amount of information about financial and operational metrics and their reporting. Using current benchmarks, you’ll typically see that the mean gross margin for SaaS companies seems to coalesce around 77%. Bottom-Up Expense Forecasting.

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How Well Do You Know Your SaaSOps Environment?

BetterCloud

As an IT pro, you’ve no doubt embraced SaaSOps, put security policies in place to protect your organization’s data, streamlined operations, and freed up time spent on tedious activities, allowing your team to focus on more strategic initiatives that move the business forward. The BetterCloud Benchmarking Assessment can help.

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What’s Your Magic Number for Sales and Marketing Efficiency?

OPEXEngine

Like the benchmarking of any key metric, you will drive operational efficiency and better use of your resources, when you see the variance between your company and your peers at the same stage and with a similar business model.

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How Data-Driven Customer Engagement Drives SAP’s Customer First Vision

Totango

When SAP, one of the world’s largest enterprise software companies, went in search of a way to improve customer retention and expansion, they chose a data-driven customer engagement model. Steps to Successful Data-Driven Customer Engagement. Scale action to efficiently retain customers. Turn understanding into action.

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Facing economic challenges in Customer Success? Revisit the foundations of your program

ChurnZero

You can’t help any of your customers effectively if you aren’t operating efficiently. By analyzing your journey, you can discuss tradeoffs between headcount and the customer experience with real data, which is much more effective than an emotional plea to your finance team. Thinking this way is a mistake.

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SaaS Cost of Goods Trending Down – By How Much?

OPEXEngine

Downward trending cost of goods (COGs) benchmarks are improving SaaS gross margins. If your subscription gross margin exceeds the 70% median for smaller companies, and 78% for larger companies, as shown in the OPEXEngine database, investors will dive in to make sure that you are not manipulating the data. Third-party Fees.

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How to build a successful Embedded Payments strategy Part 4 | Episode 36

Payrix

For a business to operate efficiently and successfully today, they must be able to process digital payments. Embedding payments into your software platform makes that possible and enhances the criticality of your software platform to your customers’ operation. You know the inflection point of a decision.

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