IT World

AUGUST 19, 2019

With its acquisition of Java support services company jClarity, Microsoft is making a play to optimize Java workloads on its Azure cloud platform. Microsoft calls jClarity the leading contributor to the AdoptOpenJDK project, which provides free, open source OpenJDK binaries. The new Java is coming!

Azure 14

Azure Acquisition Cloud Enterprise 14

Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 27, 2023

Azure (Microsoft) Quarter The week the first of the cloud giants reported - Azure. Early Look at 2023 Guides Given the Azure weakness reported on Tuesday, all software tumbled Wednesday morning with most names down 5-10%. Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies.

Cloud 144

Cloud Azure Pricing Subscription 144

Clouded Judgement

APRIL 11, 2024

It looks at the YoY dollar change in quarterly revenue from the hyperscalers (just looking at Azure / AWS because the data goes back further) going back a few years. If we break this down and look at Azure and AWS independently (graphs below), you’ll see how the AWS “swings” were a lot more volatile.

Cloud 184

Cloud Software Azure AWS 184

Clouded Judgement

JUNE 9, 2023

Very healthy new business (new customer) acquisition. Usage on Snowflake is driven by queries run on Snowflake Azure: Neutral Tone With Strength in AI Overall I’d characterize Azure’s quarter as a net positive. They guided to 26-27% growth in Azure in Q2 (with 1% coming from AI).

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Trends Cloud Azure AWS 130

Tom Tunguz

MAY 25, 2017

The Azure team has built products to leverage that strength. A F500 can simply decide to replicate a local SQL Server instance to cloud Azure instance with a few clicks, and they instantly become a Microsoft Cloud customer. This reduces the friction of signing up, minimizes the cost of customer acquisition, and fills the funnel.

Startup 100

Startup Underperforming Technical Team Strategy Azure 100

Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 7, 2024

The time to value is magnified by Wiz’s best-in-class product and deep spirit of partnership with security and development teams ( with their recent acquisition of Gem Security, SOC teams are also part of the equation ). Within the first week, Wiz was already fixing things.” To top it off, Wiz has an incredible founding team.

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Investment Cybersecurity Azure Cloud 118

Clouded Judgement

MARCH 22, 2024

And once a customer has paid back the initial acquisitions costs to acquire it, all future streams of revenue can loosely be described as a cash flow annuity. This is why the consumption players (Snowflake, Mongo, Confluent, Azure, AWS, etc) so more variability in the macro slowdown.

AI 190

AI Cloud Revenue Technical Advisors 190

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Azure has been gaining on them rapidly and is growing a double that rate. You can also find your second act inorganically via acquisition as Twilio did with SendGrid. This one is niche, but it’s interesting, not doing mergers and acquisitions sooner. You changed the name to ZoomInfo after that acquisition.

Sales Hiring 232

Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 232

Clouded Judgement

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Maybe with the exception of hyperscalers (particularly Azure). Namely, two large customers caused a huge issue (New Relic account growing very slowly post their acquisition, and a gaming company going back on prem - which I’m guessing means going to self managed Kafka?). All the headwinds that have persisted continue to persist.

Software Review 167

Software Review Cloud Software Azure 167

Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2025

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.

Scale 64

Scale VP of Engineering Outsourcing Services Enterprise 64

Neil Patel

JANUARY 7, 2022

Popular CDN’s include: Rackspace, Amazon CloudFront, and Microsoft Azure. In addition to speed, other areas of website performance to measure are your content, on-site behavior, and user acquisition metrics. By storing your files closer to your audience, you can reduce load time. Look at Your Hosting Plan.

Mobile 130

Mobile Azure Scale User Experience 130

User Pilot

JULY 14, 2024

Here’s a quick rundown of their key tasks: Data Acquisition and Sorting : They help gather information from various sources like sales figures, customer surveys , and in-app behavior. Cloud technologies (bonus) : Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS or Azure can give you an edge in the job market.

Artificial Intelligence 98

Artificial Intelligence Business Payments Sales Recruiting 98

Clouded Judgement

JUNE 20, 2023

On the Microsoft earnings call they said (related to Azure): “But at some point, workloads just can't be optimized much further. Their ongoing revenue can “fund” new logo acquisition and allow the business to operate profitably at paybacks much larger than what private companies (with smaller ARR bases) can afford.

Cloud 167

Cloud Software Benchmarks Scale 167

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

You’ll need Cost of Revenue to calculate your Gross Margin, which in turn you need to calculate Customer Lifetime Value (LTV), Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) Payback Time and to understand your company’s unit economics in general. In QuickBooks, add “Marketing” account as a subaccount of Sales & Marketing.

Startup 90

Startup Merchant Services DevOps as a Service SaaS 90

ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Running your own server to handle your customer's valuable data requires a huge investment to match the same level of security and reliability that comes baked into services like Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud. This means that growth can stagnate even with large acquisition numbers. Finally, we have customer acquisition cost.

SaaS Payments 66

SaaS Payments Trends Merchant Services Payments 66

User Pilot

JULY 25, 2024

To excel, leverage resources like books (e.g., “Python for Data Analysis”), webinars (Data Science Salon, BrightTALK), blogs (Data Science Central, KD Nuggets), podcasts (Lex Fridman Podcast, Data Skeptic), and certifications (Senior Data Scientist (SDS), Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate, etc.).

Data 52

Data Technical Review Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 52

OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 7, 2021

It has tended to be used most in infrastructure platforms, like AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. Companies with the best net dollar retention (NDR) and customer acquisition costs (CAC), two other closely watched SaaS metrics, also tend to rely on usage-based pricing. But that has been changing. Closely watched SaaS metrics.

Subscription 52

Subscription Payment Features Pricing Venture Capital 52

User Pilot

JULY 23, 2020

If “marketing” is only a matter of new customer acquisition for you, then you’re missing the point of being in SaaS. As a general rule, it is a bad idea to use general discounts as an acquisition tactic for SaaS companies: It undermines the value proposition of your service. Day 1 Retention. Week 1 Retention. Month 1 Retention.

Retention 95

Retention SaaS Payments Strategy Payment Solutions 95

Navint

AUGUST 26, 2019

The acquisition sent shockwaves through the Salesforce ecosystem and vendor community. Apttus built their applications on the Microsoft Azure platform with the goal of opening new markets, specifically with Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Prior to the acquisition, Apttus had been positioning for an IPO. When asked “why Steelbrick?”

Azure 40

Azure Outsourced Development Scale Finance 40

User Pilot

JULY 28, 2024

Data scientist’s main responsibilities The three responsibility pillars of a data scientist encompass Data Acquisition and Engineering, Data Analysis and Modeling, and Communication and Collaboration. Data acquisition and engineering: Data Extraction : SaaS products generate a ton of user data. Tableau, Power BI).

Data 52

Data Technical Review Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 52

BetterCloud

JANUARY 24, 2023

For example, a BetterCloud onboarding workflow enables IT to create new accounts by pulling new employees’ details directly from Google or Azure AD. Same goes for mergers and acquisitions. Instead, new hires will be impressed with a modern, mistake-free welcome. No more misspelled names or misplaced job titles.

SaaS 52

SaaS Azure Onboarding Innovation 52

User Pilot

JULY 21, 2024

Data scientist’s main responsibilities The three responsibility pillars of a data scientist encompass Data Acquisition and Engineering, Data Analysis and Modeling, and Communication and Collaboration. Data acquisition and engineering: Data Extraction : SaaS products generate a ton of user data.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Data Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 52

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Ali: This is why we did the acquisition of Mosaic. It will be like AWS, GCP, and Azure. Can they build a better model themselves for that with their data? Or if they took their data and put it in 1 of the large models, would that always beat what they’re doing? It’s hard and requires a lot of GPUs.

Enterprise 110

Enterprise AI Artificial Intelligence Generative AI 110

User Pilot

JULY 24, 2024

Here’s a quick rundown of their key tasks: Data Acquisition and Sorting : They help gather information from various sources like sales figures, customer surveys , and in-app behavior. This data often needs cleaning and organizing to ensure it’s accurate and usable.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Business Sales Recruiting Data Analysis 52

OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Cloud marketplaces like AWS Marketplace, Azure Marketplace and Google Cloud Platform Marketplace are digital storefronts where companies can list their offerings for software buyers to find, purchase and provision software. .

Marketplace as a Service 52

Marketplace as a Service Cloud Scale VP of Engineering 52

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Offering free usage is par for the course as a SaaS customer acquisition strategy. For example, when coming to a cloud vendor, deciding to be vendor agnostic at the time of product design ensures you aren’t tied down to AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud. The signature of such compressions is that they are short term.

Scale 52

Scale Payment Methods Payment Services Systems Review 52

Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 22, 2021

We will support exports to Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure Blob, and Google cloud storage. Cloud destinations (coming soon) — we are in process of adding the ability to export your MRR movements data from ChartMogul onto the cloud. You can always visit the data output page within your ChartMogul dashboard for all your export needs.

Software Review 52

Software Review Systems Review Payment Features PayPal 52

User Pilot

JULY 14, 2024

Bonus points : Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP). Data scientist’s main responsibilities The three responsibility pillars of a data scientist encompass Data Acquisition and Engineering, Data Analysis and Modeling, and Communication and Collaboration. Experience with data visualization tools (e.g.,

Data 52

Data Technical Review Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 52

All that Saas

JULY 8, 2021

According to marketing pros, email is one of the most successful avenues of digital acquisition for businesses today. The software integrates well with over 65 tools like Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Engine, Google App Engine, and many others to deliver a seamless user experience. Want to improve your digital marketing?

Software Review 52

Software Review Marketing Software Scale 52

SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2023

Utilize the benefits of flexibility to increase acquisition, build trust with customers, and ultimately convert them to longer-term contracts. We’re seeing a growing trend of buyers making SaaS purchases through global marketplaces such as the AWS Marketplace and Azure Marketplace.

Marketplace as a Service 246

Marketplace as a Service Software Review Technical Review Azure 246

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

Talview offers various services including talent acquisition, online assessments, asynchronous and live video interviews, talent management, remote proctoring, behavioral insights, recruitment marketing, and more. The company offers a data analytics platform based on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Clouds, and Microsoft Azure.

SaaS Payments 11

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 11

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

What’s evolved over the years and is driven by hyper-scalers like Google Azure, AWS, Twilio, and Stripe is the consumption-based model. Driving Market Acquisition When designing a compensation plan, you have to decide what behaviors you want to drive. The first might be market acquisition. This is MongoDB’s approach.

Compensation 176

Compensation Sales Azure AWS 176

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

What’s their acquisition channel? I think Azure’s like 7,000, Google. I try to do it from a founder’s perspective, and you can learn from these. What’s their NRR? How do they get their customer? What’s their deal size? How much do they get from SEO and SEM? I think hiring is harder than ever.

Sales Hiring 246

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling 246

Full Session

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

For example, general information about website traffic, user demographics, acquisition, etc. Mixpanel also offers a decent list of integrations, with over 50 apps, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Hubspot, Slack, Snowflake, and Zendesk. Mixpanel vs Google Analytics: Features.

Software Review 52

Software Review Sales Hiring Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 52

How To Buy Saas

MARCH 3, 2025

Cloud providers like Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure are shifting to 100% renewable energy. Fact: Over the past five years, mergers & acquisitions (M&A) in SaaS have skyrocketed , as big companies buy out smaller competitors. Many SaaS companies are migrating to green data centers to reduce their carbon footprint.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Software Review SaaS Payments Payment Services 52