SaaStr

APRIL 29, 2020

I think the new trend, which is brand new — is that “Innovation” as a reason to buy SaaS is dead. Well, the IT spend into SaaS has grown far faster than IT budgets overall in the past 5+ years: A big chunk of that is because the CIO’s role has become over the past half decade, in large part, the Chief Innovation Officer.

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Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 26, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. ServiceNow has been investing, innovating and preparing for this wave for years, which is why we're catching it so early. Subscribe now Share Clouded Judgement Leave a comment Follow along to stay up to date!

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Bessemer Venture Partners Byron Deeter, Mary D’Onofrio, and Elliott Robinson share a state of the cloud economy, tactical lessons and case studies for early-stage founders, private market analysis, alongside key predictions and trends driving innovation in SaaS around the globe. Enter your email below for the latest SaaStr updates.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2021

Recently Bessemer Venture Partners did another great deep give on Cloud metrics at the Cloud 100. They’ll update their classic “State of the Cloud” on Sep 27-29 at SaaStr Annual 2021 in the SF Bay Area so come join us there for the latest! But only the best SaaS and Cloud get these multiples.

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How To Buy Saas

APRIL 24, 2024

With the rise of cloud computing DevOps has gained a partner that has propelled its growth and reshaped the landscape of application development. This piece explores how DevOps and cloud computing work hand in hand to shape application development practices. Exploring the Connection Between DevOps and Cloud Computing 1.

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How To Buy Saas

APRIL 9, 2024

It has emerged as a dominant force in cloud computing. As the popularity of SaaS rises, it is a must for every entrepreneur to know the latest SaaS innovations. Low code and no code platforms The next innovation is driven by white labeling, low-code, and no-code solutions. The SaaS industry is evolving. What are they?

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SaaStr

APRIL 27, 2023

Startups are solving the world’s important challenges with agility, innovative technology, and determination. Agile and adaptable, HiBob innovates through continuous learning loops to produce seismic cultural shifts for companies with dynamic, distributed workforces. Google is proud to help. appeared first on SaaStr.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 22, 2024

One of the most innovative things about DuckDB & MotherDuck is the ability to start querying with local data & then use the cloud when necessary. He wrote the Big Data is Dead , explaining that a power law applies to most companies’ data. This also works in reverse.

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Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. When just looking at the numbers, the median cloud software NTM revenue multiple is 5.0x. I’m using that time period because there really weren’t any cloud software companies around before that. Follow along to stay up to date!

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Most saliently, Signadot is founded by a cloud-native team. Signadot enables engineers to write microservices code in production while isolating the network and the database - sandboxing the microservice. This is the best of both worlds. The upsell microservice uses the latest code from peers and the core infrastructure is safe.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 9, 2022

Verticals clouds are on the rise, as traditional clouds give way to specialization. The infrastructure narrative of the last 15 years has been dominated by the cloud. Its growth has driven a surge of innovation in everything from hardware, to … The post The Cloud Killed Infrastructure, Long Live Infrastructure!

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IT World

MAY 19, 2023

To do that, IT leaders must architect IT infrastructure that enables cloud-like agility and speed across diverse environments. The pace of technological change is lightning-fast. Savvy CIOs navigate this by learning, deciding and taking action with incredible agility and speed. But they can’t go it alone.

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SaaS Metrics

JUNE 1, 2023

Cloud computing has become a transformative force in the world of technology, driving innovation, and redefining business strategies for organizations of all sizes. Companies worldwide are adopting cloud services to cut costs, improve operational efficiency, and gain a competitive edge.

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Audacix

JUNE 22, 2023

[Melbourne, Australia] - Audacix, a leading global provider of automated testing, application security and DevSecOps solutions for software companies, today announced a strategic partnership with Meteonic Innovation Pvt Ltd, a leading company in technology oriented software consulting. For more information, visit Audacix or Cyber Chief.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Snowflake’s cloud analytics database thrives on structured data. Databricks’ technology rips through unstructured data in a cloud data lake house. Some customers run Databricks on their hardware (called on-premises or on-prem), whereas all Snowflake customers run on Snowflake’s cloud.

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Totango

AUGUST 21, 2020

In our latest installment in the CXO Series , we sat down with Keith Strodtman, COO, Customer First and Shelby Czarnota, Vice President, Customer Success Business Solutions at SAP as we discussed SAP’s Transformation and Innovation in Customer Success and why they deployed Totango as their One Customer Success Platform.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 30, 2020

Yesterday, Dremio hosted the Subsurface Conference , the first conference on cloud data lakes. If one had doubts that cloud data lakes are a strategic area for many in the data ecosystem, those figures should quash them. When the data is stored in the cloud, we call it a cloud data lake. Planning the software to build.

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Sage Intacct

MARCH 2, 2020

Our initial post offered some definitions of cloud and SaaS. In this post we turn our attention to a different kind of value: innovation. This is the 3 rd in our 5-part series on the benefits of Software as a Service (SaaS). Our last post explored the value of SaaS in terms of cost savings.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2023

It brings together industry leaders, innovators, and customers to showcase the latest products and technologies. AWS re:Invent : AWS re:Invent is Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) annual conference, focused on cloud computing and SaaS-related services.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 25, 2023

Clouds are picking teams in one of the most important dislocations in software. Cloud LLM Infrastructure Microsoft OpenAI Snowflake Nvidia Databricks Mosaic Google Anthropic Oracle Cohere Amazon HuggingFace Microsoft has invested over $10b, plus significant development efforts to work with OpenAI.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

With 100+ public Cloud companies, it’s now a bit clearer that at least after a certain point in time, SaaS vendors have a lot of stability. So enterprises manage SaaS vendor risk by (i) limiting use cases for innovative, early-stage start-ups and (ii) betting on the #1 brand in a space where practical. And large companies know that.

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SaaStr

MAY 17, 2021

SaaStr Enterprise is a flagship SaaStr digital event on May 26 + 27 where the top executives and leaders driving innovation in the Cloud share their playbooks on scaling your business to market and sell to the enterprise. 500 CXOs exploring emerging trends and cloud innovation. SIGN UP (IT’S FREE). APPLY HERE.

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2023

So we wanted to do a little weekly look at who in SaaS and Cloud is doing well. But many are still doing well — as despite tougher macro pressures, Cloud and SaaS spend continues to hit record levels. Salesforce has gotten radically more efficient over the past year, as have many leaders in SaaS and Cloud.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 31, 2023

Amazing smaller, deep dive sessions with top leaders in SaaS and Cloud. Demystifying AI for SaaS: Practical Steps to Drive Innovation with Bessemer Venture Partner’s Anant Vidur Puri #5. We have 250+ Braindates already for SaaStrAnnual.com 2023 next week!! The Most Popular 2023 Annual Braindates So Far: #1.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

days of tactical content, networking, and epic evening events when the Cloud comes to Singapore. 1,000 SaaS CEOs, Founders, Revenue Leaders, and VCs will join us for 1.5 If you haven’t already, sign up here for tickets before we sell out. And we’re excited to share that the SaaStr APAC Braindates platform is now open.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

What will the world look like when cloud compute and storage are free? Cloud computing prices are hurtling to zero. AWS has decreased prices for EC2, elastic compute cloud, and S3, simple storage service, 42 times in eight years.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Welcome to the latest installment of our “ What’s New ” series where SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin sits down with some of the top leaders and founders in SaaS and Cloud to discuss What’s New and what should be top of mind for fellow founders. More and more info is entering the Cloud, creating more exposure and risk.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As storage & compute became less expensive, the economic viability of new use cases became increasingly apparent & developers built software on the cloud. Given another few years at this pace of innovation, it’s not unreasonable to expect blockchains to be cost-competitive to classical databases.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Scaling to satisfy customers’ demands depends on innovation and foresight combined with enterprise-ready technology and the right partners. Power of the Cloud. Atlassian Cloud Platform is a platform that all Atlassian products rely on. Another noteworthy point about the Atlassian Cloud Platform is its extensibility.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

As a global technology provider powering thousands of SaaS companies, Google is at the forefront of driving exciting and innovative technologies to market. Eyal Manor – VP, Engineering @ Google Cloud. They were changing, they were moving to the cloud. Want to see more content like this session? FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Our newsletters now reach almost 200,000 Cloud professionals — 40% more than last year. Reach over 100,000 Cloud professionals on our podcast. We’re constantly innovating. Our newsletters (Weekly, Daily, Insider) now reach 40% more than they did 12 months ago, but the price hasn’t gone up … yet!

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 29, 2022

The introduction of cloud testing is one such feature that helped us analyze all the flaws in the old testing processes. However, cloud-based web testing proved that the testing process goes much beyond just ensuring the stability of the application. With this article, we will venture deep into the world of cloud-based web testing.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

She watched the SaaS and Cloud wave ride and thought there’d be a huge pullback in markets this year. Of course, it’s down from 2021, but there has been a tremendous amount of innovation in the last year, with a lot of that driven by AI and what’s possible. There’s never been a better time to build a company.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 15, 2023

The pace of innovation in the field clouds the answer. the company would prefer to rely on external experts to drive innovation within the models. the company would prefer to rely on external experts to drive innovation within the models. the product lead would like to minimize career risk by choosing a well-known player.

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