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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • Zuora Partners With a Host of Mid Market Financial Vendors

    May 14, 2012

    Business
    FinancialForce.com, intacct, netsuite, Subscription business model, Tien Tzuo, vindicia, Workday, zuora
     

    In my extensive writing around the subscription billing space, I have often noted that it is a very polarized sector of our industry with a handful of well funded companies providing services for large organizations – Zuora, Vindicia and…

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  • Zuora and Citrix Announce Partnership

    May 7, 2012

    Business
    Billing, Salesforce.com, Software as a Service, Subscription business model, Tien Tzuo, zuora
     

      News today of yet another partnership for SaaS subscription and billing provider Zuora – this time they’re signing up Citrix as a customer with Zuora powering the subscription and billing parts of Citrix’ CloudPortal Services Manager. The deal…

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  • 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…

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  • Zuora Helps Tata Go To Market

    June 15, 2011

    Business
    cloud computing, Subscription business model, Tata Communications, Tata Group, zuora
     

    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…

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  • Zuora and NetSuite–Synergies

    May 30, 2011

    Business
    Billing, Customer relationship management, Enterprise resource planning, netsuite, Subscription business model, zuora
     

    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…

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  • Zuora Picks Another Vertical–Saving Telcos

    April 6, 2011

    Business
    Macquarie Telecom, Salesforce.com, Service Cloud, ShoreTel, Subscription business model, Telstra, Tien Tzuo, zuora
     

    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…

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  • Fourth Quarter Earning–Billing and Subscription Hotting Up

    January 31, 2011

    Business
    aria systems, Software as a Service, Subscription business model, vindicia, zuora
     

    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…

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Papers

The Future of ERP – Moving at the Speed of Change

If we look back a generation, business tended to be static. While it is undeniable that innovation occurred, it tended to at a much slower pace. While Henry Ford’s manufacturing and distribution models certainly marked disruption for the horse and buggy industry, this was a change that took decades.

Channel Strategies for Success in the Cloud Age

Cloud Computing is perhaps one of the biggest shifts in the technology industry in a generation. Alongside the technology shifts involved in Cloud, there is also a significant change in the way technology will be supplied, implemented and delivered going forward. While this shift offers real benefits to consumers in terms of reduced costs and increased agility

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Ben Kepes is a business leader, a technology evangelist, an entrepreneur, and a commentator. Ben covers the convergence of business and technology.

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