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  • Zuora and Azure Hook Up to Bill the Cloud

    June 17, 2010

    Strategy
    azure, google, Microsoft, zuora
     

    And here was me thinking the cloud was all about altruism – no folks, it’s about money, pure and simple. Saving it at the buy-side, making it at the sell-side. News today from Zuora (see disclosure) that they will join the Microsoft Windows Azure Technology Adoption Program (TAP) as the first on-demand billing and subscription […]

  • Zuora – Bringing Subscriptions to Media (Huh?)

    September 22, 2009

    Business
     

    Zuora, the provider of billing components for SaaS companies (review here), is about to lift the lid on it’s latest offering – providing billing and subscription services to media companies. Yes you heard it right, newspapers, those venerable and…

  • BillingPlatform wants to take on incumbents as well as new entrants

    August 29, 2017

    Business
     

    Editorial update – the original press release from BillingPlatform was misleading – the Forrester WAVE report did not say that “BillingPlatform has a better product offering than Aria and Zuora” but that BillingPlatform outperformed Aria and Apttus in 2 out of 35…

  • HelloSign scoops up cash from the least shark-like VC firm

    June 12, 2017

    Business
     

    Whereas most VCs are justifiably known by the tongue-in-cheek Vulture Capital term, Foundry Group are the genuine good guys I’ve known of the Foundry Group venture capital firm for a few years now. I’m a long-time attendee of the…

  • Icertis and PROS partner to fend off the SteelBrick threat

    May 25, 2016

    Business
     

    There are so many different players in the revenue and contract management space, from those focused purely on the subscription and billing aspects (Zuora, Aria and Vindicia), to the ERP vendors who believe they offer the best solution (NetSuite,…

  • MindTouch Helps Cost-Center Customer Support Become A Growth Generator

    May 29, 2015

    Uncategorized
     

    What do Docker, Zenefits, Sprinklr, Zuora, and SimpliVity all have in common? They have all reached so-called unicorn status. That is to say, all of these companies have achieved a $1 billion plus valuation in this superheated (and, yes, some would say…

  • Beyond Subscription – Managing the Entire Customer Revenue Lifecycle

    September 19, 2013

    Business
    Avangate, marc benioff, netsuite, salesforce, Salesforce.com, San Francisco, Software as a Service, Tien Tzuo, zuora
     

    While in San Francisco recently I took the opportunity to chat with Zuora and Avangate – two companies with different views on the topic of helping their customers get money from their clients. Zuora is a subscription and billing…

  • The Subscription Economy – Coming to a Legacy Business Near You

    June 24, 2013

    Business
    aria systems, Business, Chargify, Recurly, Subscription business model, Tien Tzuo, United Airlines, zuora
     

    I’ve spent a lot of time covering the subscription and billing space – vendors like Zuora, Aria Systems and Vindicia at the enterprise level, and SB vendors like Chargify and Recurly are all trying to provide modular solutions for…

  • Citrix CloudPortal – Enabling Services Providers to Build Out Broad Portfolios

    March 27, 2013

    Business
    Citrix, Citrix Systems, cloud computing, netsuite, Platform as a service, Software as a Service, Software development kit, SunGard Availability Services
     

    The ~aaS (as a service) acronym must be the most overdone three letters in technology – not satisfied with the main three divisions – IaaS, PaaS and SaaS – there are a plethora of other acronyms as well XaaS,…

  • Overcoming The Cloud Cost Conundrum

    February 4, 2013

    Business
    Ben Kepes, Chief financial officer, cloudability, cloudcomputing, Diversity Limited, Mat Ellis, Tyler Sloat, zuora
     

    Recently, I moderated a CloudU roundtable that continued an ongoing theme of mine –overcoming the hurdles to greater cloud adoption. In this case we looked deeply at the cloud cost area. This is a really important problem space to…

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