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Clouded Judgement 8.4.23 - Cloud Giants Q2 Update

Clouded Judgement

Subscribe now Cloud Giants Update “What we're seeing in the quarter is that those cost optimizations, while still going on, are moderating and many maybe behind us in some of our large customers. Most public companies don’t report net new ARR, so I’m taking an implied ARR metric (quarterly subscription revenue x 4).

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Strategic Finance in Today’s Market: A Tactical Guide to Building & Scaling Your Team with IVP

SaaStr

The Accounting Team Responsibilities: Financial recording and reporting Compliance, Audits Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable Tax, Treasury Your accounting team makes sure every financial transaction is recorded correctly and categorized. Cost Optimization Identify and implement strategies to improve margins.

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Clouded Judgement 10.28.22

Clouded Judgement

Hyperscalers Report Quarterly Earnings This week we saw AWS (Amazon), GCP (Google) and Azure (Microsoft) report earnings. It’s always great that the hyper scalers report first, I’ll keep an eye on all of the upcoming reports to see what trends emerge. Quarterly Reports Summary Earning season is upon us!

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Managing infrastructure costs as your company grows

Intercom, Inc.

As a result of our reactive strategy, we are gifted with a backlog of cost optimization opportunities. Start out small and automate your reporting functionalities and basic cost checks. As you learn more about your costs, you can start to build more sophisticated automations. Prioritize by impact.

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7 Ways to build Enterprise Readiness into your SaaS roadmap

CloudGeometry

7 Cloud Cost Optimization Resource leverage (in the form of reusable software) is at the heart of the SaaS model. FinOps is a new discipline that defines best practices for closing gaps between feature implementation and the cost of services. They build on each other. Enterprise customers understand perfection is unattainable.

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Monetization: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 2

CloudGeometry

Cloud cost optimization and technical debt The speed and versatility of the SaaS model are a two-edged sword. Lift and shift changes can also introduce costs around spiky network traffic or data egress/ingress charges across secure VPCs or Availability Zones. There are tools , but it can be really hard to add well after launch.

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15 Virtual Team Building Activities Your Marketing Team Will Love

Neil Patel

You can use it as a platform to send messages to team members, but there’s plenty of other useful features too, like: time tracking payroll processing reporting sharing news task management labor cost optimization. To join, click the “get started” link at the top of the page.

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