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Barriers To Entry – Overcoming The Cloud Cost Conundrum

October 19, 2012

Business

Ben Kepes, Chief financial officer, cloud computing, cloudability, cloudcomputing, Company, Diversity Limited, education, Tyler Sloat, zuora

A theme I’ve been exploring over the past year or so has been the barriers to cloud adoption. Time spent with organizations using cloud has shown me just how valuable a move to the cloud can be – in…
Netsuite Introduces Billing and Subscription Service

October 17, 2012

Business

Chief operating officer, Force.Com, Jim McGeever, McGeever, netsuite, Subscription business model, zach nelson, zuora

At the NetSuite SuiteWorld conference held earlier this year, CEO Zach Nelson announced that the company would begin to provide some billing and subscription functionality into their platform. Billing in the services based world is an immense nightmare, others…
FinancialForce 2012 Release–Delivering a Loosely Coupled Set of Solutions

September 11, 2012

Business

Customer relationship management, Customer support, Force.Com, netsuite, Salesforce.com, Service Cloud, Workday, zuora

Nicely timed to coincide with next week’s DreamForce conference comes the summer 2012 release from FinancialForce, the cloud accounting company that is both part owned by Salesforce, and built upon the force.com platform. While product announcements tend to be…
More SaaS Integration from MuleSoft

May 14, 2012

Business

Application programming interface, dataintegration, MasterCard, MuleSoft, netsuite, Platform as a service, SnapLogic, Software as a Service

I’ve spent a fair amount of time in the past few months talking with businesses trying to wrangle the integration of different applications. Despite lots of APIs, the cloud, mobile devices, the democratization of IT and many other current…
Reflecting on RLM – Transverse Billing and Subscription Vendor

March 22, 2012

Business

Amdocs, Software as a Service, Transverse, vindicia, zuora

When in Austin recently I took the opportunity to meet with Transverse, another player in a space I call Revenue Lifecycle Management of RLM. Revenue Lifecycle Management includes the obvious functional area such as subscription and billing services, but…
OneBill Launches (Another) Subscription Commerce Platform

February 13, 2012

Business

aria systems, google, linkedin, Recurly, Salesforce.com, Software as a Service, vindicia, zuora

Just when the world thought it was well provided for subscription commerce toolsets, OneBill is today launching its own take on this product area. Subscription billing is a massive area of opportunity as organizations look to gain increased flexibility…
Aria Scoops a Tier1 Telco Customer

July 20, 2011

Business

Amdocs, aria systems, metanga, Software as a Service, Subscription business model, vindicia, YouSee, zuora

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…
Another Subscription and Billing Provider–Spinning the Wheels with Metanga

July 5, 2011

Business

aria, Billing, metanga, metratech, subscription, vindicia, zuora

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…
Downstream Effects–The Salesforce Mafia

May 6, 2011

Business

BrightEdge, cloud computing, PayPal, Salesforce.com, sliderocket, VMware

We often here about the alumni from companies like Google and PayPal, and the startups they’re involved in – indeed it seems that having one of these elite put their name to a startup holds a cachet similar to…
Vindicia and Customer Retention

April 21, 2011

Business

Sanjay Sarathy, Software as a Service, vindicia, zuora

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…

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