SaaStr

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Enterprise data is the differentiator: While public data dominates foundation models, enterprise-specific data represents less than 1% but delivers exponentially more value when properly leveraged. IBM’s $7B Bet on Vertical AI and What It Means for SaaS Founders.

AI

SaaStr

JULY 7, 2025

commercial revenue surged 71% as Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) gains enterprise traction Deep government/defense roots benefit from heightened geopolitical tensions worldwide Clear AI differentiation has made it indispensable for data-driven decision making How AI Led Palantir From Slow Growth (13%) to Hypergrowth (49%!)

AI

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2025

The Deceleration Evidence Ramp’s card spend data reveals several concerning trends that suggest the AI adoption curve is indeed slowing: The growth rate from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025 was significantly lower than previous quarters, even accounting for typical seasonal variations in enterprise spending. ROI scrutiny is intensifying.

Payment Services

SaaStr

JULY 5, 2025

Veeva is the dominant cloud software provider for life sciences – serving pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies with mission-critical applications for drug development, clinical trials, regulatory compliance, and commercial operations. ‘Look, here’s enterprise software. What are you doing?

Underperforming Technical Team

SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2025

Sometimes months for complex products or enterprise sales cycles. You need to check: Message relevance and accuracy Tone and brand voice consistency Technical accuracy of claims Compliance with legal/regulatory requirements Personalization quality Call-to-action effectiveness We use a simple 5-point scoring system for each message.

Scale

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2025

The Great Spending Showdown: AI vs SaaS in 2025/2026 — What Every B2B Leader Needs to Know We’re witnessing the most dramatic shift in enterprise tech spending since the cloud migration began 15 years ago.

AI Search

SaaStr

JUNE 2, 2025

With this news, we will be introducing Snowflake Postgres: enterprise-grade, AI-ready, and fully managed. ” Snowflake’s Enterprise-Focused Approach Snowflake’s strategy targets enterprise customers and government agencies.

VP of Engineering

SaaStr

OCTOBER 23, 2024

” Investing for growth has been pretty flat year over year for SMBs, which means there is money there, but they’re holding onto it. Selling to Multiple Stakeholders If you sell into the Enterprise, you understand there are different stakeholders. So I call this the wait-and-see economy.” This is true for BILL.

SMB

SaaStr

JUNE 6, 2025

Build it into your core value prop or risk being eliminated before you even get to pitch The Opportunity : 4 out of 5 buyers report positive ROI on AI investments, and they’re willing to pay 20-30% premiums for proven AI value 2. Lead with integration capabilities and security compliance, not just business outcomes 5.

AI Search

SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2025

Joselyn Goldfein , Managing Director at Zeta Venture Partners, which invests in AI and data infrastructure-focused startups from inception through seed stage And see everyone at 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay!! Every public company earnings call mentions AI, and every boardroom discussion includes it. This is exactly backward.

Technical Review

SaaStr

JUNE 9, 2025

This “pricing power” indicates genuine demand, not just investment bank optimism. Rubrik’s success reflects strong expansion within existing enterprise accounts. The key is demonstrating measurable cost savings and health outcomes for enterprise buyers. SailPoint filed at $19-21 but priced at $23.

B2B

USIO

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Fortunately, PayFac-as-a-Service (PFaaS) exists to save you from the $1M+ upfront cost, 12+ months of setup time, and the headaches that come with managing payments, compliance, and risk. Payrix Flexible, but Bring a Developer (or Five) Best for: SaaS companies willing to invest developer time into embedded payments. Eventually.

PayFac as a Service

BetterCloud

DECEMBER 16, 2024

So, as a cautionary tale, its important to understand the hidden risks of shadow IT , including: Operational Security Compliance Financial Remaining unchecked, these four major risks only continue to grow and consequences amplify. Risk 3: Shadow IT poses a compliance risk Related to security risk is compliance risk.

Artificial Intelligence

Stax

JUNE 3, 2025

This democratizes access to powerful tools, whether you’re a startup or an enterprise. Built-in security Leading SaaS providers invest heavily in security infrastructurefar beyond what most businesses could implement on their own. No more manual downloads or downtime.

Payment Services

Scytale

MARCH 12, 2025

His investment portfolio spans fintech, biotech, and deep tech, reinforcing his passion for driving progress across industries. Recognized as the Veuve Clicquot Bold Woman of the Year, she continues to drive policy change and invests in impact-driven ventures as a Venture Partner at Mustard Seed Maze. Backed by 1.93

Startup

Frontegg

JUNE 9, 2025

These services can be integrated into existing platforms, providing security measures and improving overall user experience without requiring extensive infrastructure investments. Features, such as detailed audit logs and reporting, simplify compliance management. AaaS offers rapid deployment with lower initial investments.

Outsourcing Services

How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 20, 2024

If you are a SaaS business owner, you can invest in analytics tools to get better insights and data to analyze these metrics and make actionable decisions. However, it would be so effective for large-sized enterprises with heavy inventory and complex billing cycles.

Payment Services

Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 12, 2024

One such insight is the businesss best performing strategies, or promotion channels which drive the most ROI (return on investment). Compliance It is challenging to scale your business, and tap into your desired markets without considering local and international regulations. Navigating the world of compliance can be very demanding.

Payments

How To Buy Saas

MAY 26, 2025

In fact, Gartners 2024 AI report advises organizations that want to use generative AI on private data to prioritize RAG investments. The sources could be a vector database of document embeddings, a set of enterprise documents, a web search index, or any structured/unstructured data repository. in its answers.

Artificial Intelligence

How To Buy Saas

MAY 21, 2025

Whether youre a startup , an SMB , or a global enterprise , the right ATS can streamline your recruitment process, save time, and help attract top talent in a competitive market. Lever Best ATS + CRM for Scaling Enterprises Pricing: Key Features: 10. JazzHR Best ATS for Small Business Hiring Pricing Key Features: Ideal Use Case 9.

Systems Review

Scytale

OCTOBER 21, 2024

An independent third-party auditor assesses your company’s security practices, and if you meet the requirements, you receive the stamp of approval and get a SOC 2 report confirming your compliance. Continuous Monitoring and Compliance Unfortunately, getting SOC 2 certified isn’t a once off deal. Uh-oh, now what?

Technical Review

BetterCloud

JUNE 16, 2025

Compliance issues can arise when you don’t know where sensitive data resides. Security & compliance indicators Gaps in security protocols: Unknown access points from unmonitored SaaS apps create vulnerabilities. This allows you to negotiate bulk discounts and enterprise agreements, often saving significant money.

Management

BetterCloud

JUNE 9, 2025

The ease of adoption, often requiring just a credit card and a few clicks, eliminates lengthy procurement processes and upfront infrastructure investments. Finally, the lack of visibility into SaaS usage can create security vulnerabilities through unapproved or outdated applications ( shadow IT ) and hinder compliance efforts.

SaaS

How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Are you an enterprise needing deep customization and analytics, or a small business seeking user-friendly marketing integration? Its early vision was to end software as we knew it instead delivering enterprise applications via the internet. Today, Salesforce is positioned as the enterprise CRM leader. Market share leader (21.7%

Scale

How To Buy Saas

AUGUST 4, 2025

Companies of all sizes – from scrappy startups to big enterprises – are exploring AI-powered tools to manage calls, texts, and chats without needing a full call center staff. It might detect a customer’s objection and remind the rep of a relevant product benefit, or monitor the call for compliance phrases that need to be said.

AI

Stax

APRIL 3, 2025

Theyre easy to integrate and set up, with the host taking care of data security measures, including PCI compliance and fraud protection. On top of PCI compliance, you might have to pay extra for SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certification. Just like self-hosted gateways, merchants using API-based solutions are responsible for security.

Payment Methods

Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2025

Like there’s so many angles that I think we could take this conversation, but, We’ve been able to have a few conversations and, and one of the things that really stuck out to me in our conversations was your experience expanding from like an SMB mid-market motion to the enterprise. and that [00:06:00] also equated to a shift from.

Scale

User Pilot

JULY 22, 2025

Making it a go-to for enterprise data teams who need both control and scale. Some mParticle features I find interesting: Enterprise-grade data governance: Build and enforce a shared business glossary and schema registry so everyone on your team uses consistent definitions. This can reduce confusion and compliance risk.

Software Review

Valuize Consulting

APRIL 4, 2025

Time tracking reveals the real investment required to support various segments and individual accounts. Consider a company that discovers, through time data, that its high-value enterprise clients in the healthcare sector consistently require longer onboarding due to compliance-related complexities.

Scaling

SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2024

To set the stage, if you talk to any VC out there today, they will tell you that half of their investments which were growing at epic rates in 2021 are barely growing today. Security and compliance are strong, with Wiz turning down billions from Google. And we talked about security compliance. Go more Enterprise or SMB.

Sales Hiring

Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

To choose the right payment processing solution for your business, you need to evaluate your business needs, evaluate security and compliance standards, and evaluate different payment processors based on pricing, features, customer support, and scalability. Talk to sales What is a Payment Processing System?

Payment Services

BetterCloud

JULY 2, 2025

For executives the question is no longer if to invest in AI, but how to invest effectively, efficiently, and strategically. This is where SaaS Management Platforms (SMPs) become truly invaluable, especially for forward-thinking organizations looking to invest strategically in AI.

Innovation

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2025

OpenAI for general use, Anthropic for reasoning, Google for enterprise integration, open-source for cost optimization and inference speed. The Tactical Insight : Don’t just buy AI tools—invest in change management. ” Bottom Line : Treating internal AI as an expense instead of a growth investment is a category error.

AI

User Pilot

MARCH 30, 2025

Invest in paid advertising to attract new users Although SEO is still very profitable, it takes a lot of time to build domain authority. Launch a retargeting campaign If youre going to invest in paid ads, retargeting is pretty much a must. Build indexable free tools that are related to your app (e.g., net present value calculator).

Mobile

SaaStr

JULY 31, 2025

Why the patient money in enterprise software creates the most extraordinary wealth Everyone knows B2B software scales beautifully—recurring revenue, sticky customers, predictable growth. These B2B founders didn’t just build great companies—they engineered some of the most lucrative long-term investments in modern history.

B2B

Teamgate

JULY 25, 2025

by implementing personalized follow-up sequences for enterprise clients." When setting achievable goals, consider these factors: Historical performance data from your CRM Current market conditions Team capacity and available resources Training and development needs Investing in employee training and resources is crucial for success.

Scale

How To Buy Saas

MAY 28, 2025

Even Sendbird highlights that enterprise-scale AI agents come with built-in observability, fallback logic, and policy controls to ensure reliability under heavy load. Security and Compliance: Orchestration centralizes data governance. It even includes compliance features (e.g. Also consider data sensitivity and compliance.

Artificial Intelligence