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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

The most triumphant transfer of control from an original generation leader to a new CEO was surely that of Microsoft, which pivoted from chasing after Apple’s success in the consumer space under Steve Ballmer (don’t mention Nokia ) to successfully focusing on the cloud under Satya Nadella (please do mention Azure). Rise of mobile.

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The Latest in VC Funding + Scaling SaaS: An AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 581)

SaaStr

If you didn’t catch it the other day … and you can read about it on SaaStr …Microsoft and Google Cloud both had extremely strong quarters, Microsoft Azure grew 40% last quarter , and a record number of nine-figure and billion-dollar deals. Microsoft Azure’s at incredible scale and it still grew 40% last quarter.

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Authentication Standoff: OAuth2 vs OIDC vs SAML

Frontegg

Also known as Security Assertion Markup Language, SAML is an open framework that conveys authorization data from identity providers (Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Azure, etc.) What is SAML? to service providers (Salesforce, Box, etc.) in a secure way. OIDC vs OAuth? What’s the difference between OAuth and Open ID?

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GTM 140: How Microsoft Scaled from $600M to $5B: The Enterprise Playbook with Hayden Stafford

Sales Hacker

Um, the goal was to bring all of those assets of Azure Modern Workplace, the business application side together, build a really powerful data set, um, all within that common data platform on Azure. Azure and how much consumption you’re driving there and transacting through their marketplaces. And, um, I made the jump.

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Authentication Standoff: OAuth2 vs OIDC vs SAML

Frontegg

Also known as Security Assertion Markup Language, SAML is an open framework that conveys authorization data from identity providers (Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Azure, etc.) What is SAML? to service providers (Salesforce, Box, etc.) in a secure way. OIDC vs OAuth? What’s the difference between OAuth and Open ID?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Byron Deeter, Elliott Robinson, Henry Schuck, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

If you go back to before 2014, what you see is the power of the cloud. Azure has been gaining on them rapidly and is growing a double that rate. Then they found somewhere in like year 2014 and ’15 that they could layer in something like payments as an additional way to monetize their customer base. It is staggering.

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SaaS 2020 Planning: Global Market Trends

OPEXEngine

Meanwhile, the global public cloud software as a service (SaaS) market is hitting an annual run rate of $100B in 2019 and forecast to grow to US $157 billion in 2020, more than doubling the market size from 2014. Microsoft revenues represent 18% of the total market, followed by SalesForce at 11.5% and Adobe is in third place with 6.7%

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