Tag Archives: zuora

20/07/2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Aria Scoops a Tier1 Telco Customer

By Ben Kepes

I’ve spent a couple of years closely following the subscription and billing space – particularly the SaaS startups that are hoping to be the face of the next generation of technology. Historically of course, billing has been dominated by two particular approaches. The first is home baked solutions that large

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05/07/2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Another Subscription and Billing Provider–Spinning the Wheels with Metanga

By Ben Kepes

I seem to have created a bit of a niche for myself commenting on the cloud subscription and billing space. I’ve spent a lot of time over the last few years speaking with players Aria, Monexa, Vindicia and Zuora (disclosure – I have done consulting work for all four of

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15/06/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Zuora Helps Tata Go To Market

By Ben Kepes

Customer success stories always make good posts, and I especially enjoy when they’re stories that how the agility to be gained from using *aaS instead of more traditional approached. I was interested then to gear about Tata Communications, the $2.5B telecom arm of the $80B Tata Group, roll out of

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30/05/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Zuora and NetSuite–Synergies

By Ben Kepes

One of the multitude of announcements at SuiteWorld last week was the release of a new combined solution for NetSuite customers that integrated Zuora’s subscription and billing offering with NetSuite’s ERP. While the news is a week old already – I keep a watching brief on the subscription and billing

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21/04/2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Vindicia and Customer Retention

By Ben Kepes

I was briefed by SaaS subscription and billing vendor Vindicia last week with an update on where they are – both from a business and a technology perspective. Vindicia, alongside other subscription and billing vendors Zuora and Aria, seems to be going great guns – Vindicia themselves are proud of

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08/04/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Moxy Lets Reporting Look… Less Poxy

By Ben Kepes

Excuse the title of this post, I couldn’t help but go with the alliteration. The company it refers to however really is cool. MoxyReports is a creation by boutique New Zealand based development house EndGame. EndGame was set up by Andrew Butel, one of the earliest brains behind Xero, and

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06/04/2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Zuora Picks Another Vertical–Saving Telcos

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written previously about the masterful way in which Zuora reinvents it’s core product, repackaging it in new ways to sell to a different vertical industry. Previously Zuora had targeted media companies and cloud providers – this time it’s the turn of telcos to enjoy the polished spin of Zuora

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31/01/2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Fourth Quarter Earning–Billing and Subscription Hotting Up

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written pretty regularly about SaaS billing and subscription services and how, in my view, they’re an indicator for the greater cloud economy. Given that then it’s pretty interesting to see the results just announced by Aria Systems and Vindicia recently (Zuora is still in its current quarter and their

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27/01/2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Netsuite goes Native with Subscription and Billing

By Ben Kepes

Six months ago I posted about an interesting piece of news – that NetSuite had inked a preferred partnership agreement with subscription and billing provider Zuora. The news was interesting because rival subscription and billing provider Aria was already a preferred partner of NetSuite (Disclosure – see relevant information about

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02/12/2010 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Z-Force Goes 4.0

By Ben Kepes

Next week sees me and 25000 of my closest friends (!) descend on San Francisco for DreamForce, the annual salesforce.com conference. It looks set to be an amazing event and, judging by the number of invitations to parties and briefings that are descending on my email box, it looks set

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Ben Kepes is an analyst, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergance of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users. More on Ben

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