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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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