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Microsoft's Billion Dollar AI Business

Tom Tunguz

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) & Microsoft Azure had strong quarters with about 28% annual revenue growth each. The total customer count for Azure’s OpenAI has grown dramatically. From Coursera and Grammarly to Mercedes-Benz and Shell, we now have more than 2,500 Azure OpenAI service customers, up 10x quarter-over-quarter.

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Tabular: Turning Your Data Swamp into a Data Lakehouse with Apache Iceberg

Clouded Judgement

If you want features in your lakehouse (on top of open source Iceberg) for ingestion, CDC, streaming (file loading, Kafka connect, etc), schema evolution, compaction, optimization, time travel, snapshots, auto-scaling, maintenance (no more writing spark jobs to delete snapshots!), A natural question is “why do we have two tiers?

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How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0

Baremetrics

Cost of Revenue Examples Hosting AWS / Google Cloud / Azure Payroll – Customer Support Service Delivery Costs Twilio, Sendgrid Merchant Fees Stripe, Braintree You should also include software that helps your support team, such as Help Scout, or your Devops, such as CircleCI.

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

Sales Hacker

Just had your SKO appreciate you taking the, the hour amongst all the crazy travels. 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. You’ve been a busy man.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Justin Bedecarre, Jen Nguyen, Jason Lemkin, and Aaron Levie

SaaStr

They think about the hours in the office, and they think about the business travel. So, that will mean more distributed work, more video calls, less business travel, more hopping on just a quick sync with a partner as opposed to saying, “Hey, can I fly to you next week?” You’re just now seeing that play out.

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Tower Insurance works with EIS Group to accelerate digital business transformation

IT World

Tower deployed EIS Suite components PolicyCore, BillingCore, ClaimCore, and CustomerCore and EIS DXP on Microsoft Azure as the foundation of the new business platform. Tower operates across New Zealand and the Pacific Islands and provides customers cover for house, car, contents, business, travel and other personal needs.

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SaaS Security: A Complete Best Practices Guide

BetterCloud

Without illumination from proper SaaSOps processes and solutions, your organization’s data travels to unimaginable places. IAM products such as Azure Active Directory can enable: Single sign-on (SSO). Unknowable and unmeasurable apps imperil your organization’s security posture (not to mention your IT budget.). Conditional access.

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