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The New Era of SaaS Forecasting

Baremetrics

Data science is beginning to replace spreadsheets for entrepreneurs wrestling with uncertainty in their business models. If you’re like most SaaS founders, you’ve googled for a saas financial template you can use to forecast your subscription business. How did we get here? What’s really new? Staring into the Void.

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Benchmarking and Budgeting Go Hand in Hand

OPEXEngine

In working with hundreds and hundreds of SaaS CFOs over the past 15 years, I’ve noticed that effective and strategic CFOs incorporate accurate benchmarking into the daily business of the company and especially into the budgeting and planning process. . Include them upfront to guide modeling, instead of at the end.* .

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SaaS Company Benchmarking: Leveraging Metrics for Performance Insights

OPEXEngine

My experience reinforces the fact that SaaS business model variants and approaches to measuring performance via metrics are still very much undefined. This is true even though selling software on a subscription basis has been around for well over 20 years. Bottom-Up Expense Forecasting. The Value of Benchmarking.