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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. Cloud Operations / Platform Support. In general, companies classify activities associated with cloud operations and platform support as Cost of Revenue since their job is to maintain the operational efficiency of the hosted software.

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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 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. Ian Hillis Hi, everyone. You know the inflection point of a decision.

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The 2021 State of SaaSOps Report

BetterCloud

Every year we explore IT’s biggest challenges and concerns, trends in SaaS adoption, and what the future holds—making this the industry’s largest and longest running research of its kind. But the data clearly reveals that they too are trending in the same direction as SaaS-first workplaces. Improved operational efficiency.

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Jan 19 – Customer Success Jobs

SmartKarrot

Role: Director of Customer Success Location: Nashville Metropolitan Area, US (Hybrid) Organization: LNCsearch As a Director of Customer Success, you will manage the workflow of the call center and ensure compliance with established benchmarks and standards. Communicate and collaborate effectively across all internal teams. Apply here: [link].

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

So what’s happening right now and trends, and then we’ll do a little speculation about the far future and where to those trends go over time. Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends. Talk about what the near term trends are. Jay Snyder: Yeah.

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

Totango

Scale Action to Efficiently Retain Customers. Introducing Customer Success best practices at scale means finding significant operational efficiencies. Any movement against benchmarked customer health data points triggered by real-world product usage and engagement measures produced an immediate response.