The Daily Egg

AUGUST 25, 2020

Call center software is the modern way for businesses to communicate with customers and leads over the phone. By leveraging cloud deployment, call center software is a more cost-effective solution to traditional call centers. The post Best Call Center Software appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2025

The harsh reality: Most enterprises are adopting AI due to FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) rather than for specific business outcomes. Software engineering teams have been early adopters of AI coding assistants precisely because they provide an immediate, measurable lift.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The same is true in software. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. As well as being a critical philosophy behind how we build software, it also represents how I feel about the software industry and technology in general.

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Outsourcing Services Software Review Software Outsourced Development 224

SaaStr

MAY 6, 2024

My biggest take-away: there are barely more than 50 acquisitions of $50,000,000 or more, at least disclosed one, in software of U.S.-based Tomasz’s main point is that the dollars are only going up due to an increase in mega deals. After all, there are so many more SaaS and Cloud leaders worth $1B+ that there wer a decade ago.

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The Daily Egg

MAY 20, 2021

Jive is a cloud-based phone software that allows users to make or receive calls from anywhere, at any time, and on any device. The post Jive Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. When it does, the outcome will be a shrinking economy due to a big drop-off in demand across the board. ” Were 2023 Software Estimates Already De-Risked To Start The Year? Subscribe now Share Clouded Judgement Leave a comment

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 16, 2024

How FastSpring drastically simplifies the entire cross border payments process for SaaS, software, mobile game, and other digital product businesses. And if you want to sell globally as a software company — even a small one — the majority of your transactions likely will be cross border. Higher approval rates due to local acquiring.

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Clouded Judgement

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Subscribe now 2023 Top Performers In 2023, there were 14 cloud software companies that were up 100%+ this year (in the index I track of ~80 total)! Subscribe now Share Clouded Judgement Leave a comment

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 23, 2021

Over the last ten years, the 75th percentile post-money valuation of a cloud software or infrastructure company has grown 11% annually. While not as hyperbolic an inflation rate as copper or lumber, the price trajectory of early stage cloud startups does result from a similar supply demand/imbalance.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2025

With over 20 years in the infrastructure software space, Dave previously held executive roles at Microsoft, VMware, and GitHub. Process Reviews > Status Updates : Top CEOs don’t just review results – they review the systems that produce those results.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I’m watching public company earnings to identify early trends in the software market to inform startups’ plans for 2023. This is likely due to a move up-market where larger buyers seek professional services to deploy infrastructure. Yesterday, Cloudflare announced earnings. Channel sales have become stronger.

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SaaStr

MARCH 16, 2019

The Week in Cloud: A look at the stories in Cloud, SaaS, and business software that we found particularly useful and interesting. Number 2 is still awfully big in the largest market in all of Cloud: [link]. A huge donation, driven by the Cloud: [link]. A huge donation, driven by the Cloud: [link].

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 13, 2021

A large part of making this belief a reality is the idea of running less software. You can watch a video of that talk below, or read on to learn how we built our Elasticsearch cloud on AWS. This might be an exception to our “run less software” philosophy, but we were determined that it should never feel like it.

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AWS Cloud Software Review Systems Review 249

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Subscribe now Are Software Companies Over or Undervalued? Today I wanted to dig in to this question and its implications: “Are software companies fairly valued today?” Follow along to stay up to date!

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

By choosing the right project management software, projects won’t throw you into that panic-inducing nightmare. I’ve managed countless projects, hundreds of teams, and bounced around to every project management software you can think of. The top 6 options for project management software. If only there was a better way.

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The Daily Egg

JANUARY 2, 2024

Working on the cloud has many advantages, but you may prefer having all your software housed under your own servers. That way, The post ONLYOFFICE Review appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 18, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. I wanted to do a quick review of results so far to see what the data is showing us. Now let’s look at some Q2 software earnings data starting with net new ARR trends. Subscribe now Share Clouded Judgement Leave a comment

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Cloud Software Review Subscription Payment Features 243

SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Amanda Malko is CMO at G2, a software marketplace and review site that reaches over 60 million buyers annually across 2000 software categories. In this session, she shares insights and trends from research conducted this year that can help software buyers and sellers make smarter decisions about software and the market. .

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

But there’s another SaaS leader that almost everyone in B2B software also uses also founded in 1999 — to manage their events. While the overall category of Virtual Events software is in a funk, Cvent did OK. #2. 70% of Cvent’s revenue comes from its events software. It’s still around, too.

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Marketplace as a Service Software Review Cloud B2B 331

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

Although they may seem like strong opinions, many of these tips echo the main tenets of software engineering: work with you’ve got, design solutions as needed, don’t repeat yourself, and keep it simple, stupid! Multi-cloud architectures. Look, there are situations where a multi-cloud strategy will be of benefit to you.

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Technical Review Scale multi-cloud Kubernetes Scaling 269

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

Generative AI is a platform shift where models can take inputs such as text, image, audio, video, and code and generate new content into any of the modalities mentioned. We’re on the cusp of a golden age in AI, and the lesson learned from Cloud was that Cloud sped up the pace of development by a lot.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2024

First, it’s a Cloud and SaaS leader we all look up to and know. So while “B2B2B” has seen a lot of headwinds and challenges the past 24 months, the developer, infrastructure and Cloud side of the world has been stronger overall. Many SaaS and Cloud leaders are seeing new customer count slow or even stop.

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SaaStr

APRIL 28, 2021

Some well-known providers of SSO include Google Cloud Identity for companies using GSuite, Azure Active Directory for companies using Office 365, and Okta if you’re a larger company with more complex needs. . SOC 2 has many requirements around your version control system and how you review code.

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Clouded Judgement

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Some of these drops rival one of the worst ever software earnings reaction of Tableau in 2016! On Thursday the software index (WCLD) was up ~3%! So what’s holding up software stocks valuations?? Atlassian was down ~10%.

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Software Review Cloud Software Azure 167

SaaStr

MAY 4, 2021

While we all saw Zoom and Shopify explode during Covid, Cloud call centers boomed just as much. Pre-Cloud systems, really. Like Twilio, Five9 will likely never have the 70%-80%+ gross margins of a software-only company. Overnight, 1000s of call center agents needed to work from home. Wow, what a story. Five9 never gave up.

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Systems Review Technical Review Software Review Cloud 345

SaaStr

JANUARY 26, 2023

Cumul.io ‘s powerful embedded analytics platform lets you build interactive dashboards with simple drag & drop, and integrate them in your own application in just a few lines of code. Finix makes it easy for software platforms of all sizes to process payments while increasing revenue and reducing cost.

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2021

Due to that convenience, departments and teams tend to seek out best-of-breed cloud applications, streamlining foundational and specialized functions through automation. Today’s SaaS apps are easy to acquire and use without IT and operations’ assistance. Quote-to-Cash. Types of Integration Solutions.

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Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Another risk of over hiring due to a large balance sheet. Same question for all of the inference engines or coding assistants or customer support or medical scribes etc. Subscribe now Share Clouded Judgement Leave a comment

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 10, 2023

Salesforce launched AI Cloud. That’s a level of automation rarely seen within the enterprise without custom coding. Over the past few decades, developers have built systems like this for code : code review, testing, monitoring, isolation. In the last month, Hubspot launched ChatSpot.

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Software Review SaaS Systems Review Application Development 237

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Subscribe now Software Setup Currently, interest rates seem to be the primary driver of software valuations. Follow along to stay up to date! So until we get that data, we’ll see short term moves more tied to rates.

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Clouded Judgement

MARCH 15, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. I’ll put together my standard deeper dive quarterly review, but wanted to share some high level summary charts today. Subscribe now Share Clouded Judgement Leave a comment Follow along to stay up to date!

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Cloud Software Review Subscription Payment Features 167

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. What’s been most surprising to me is how resilient software valuations have been in the face of pretty massive moves in rates. Clearly the bond markets are saying something different than software valuations.

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Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Hyperscaler Preview Next week Amazon, Microsoft and Google report earnings and we’ll see Q3 data for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Subscribe now Share Clouded Judgement Leave a comment Follow along to stay up to date!

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Cloud Azure AWS Software Review 167

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Enter… modern-day accounting software. However, choosing the best accounting software isn’t easy, thanks to the thousands of options on the market. This article covers how to choose the right software, the different types of software, and my top five recommendations. Let’s get started! Mobile accessibility.

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Payment Solutions Software Review Software Payment Methods 145

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

There are several big leaders in property management software, and AppFolio is one of them. At $660m in “ARR” (a lot of that isn’t software, as we’ll see below), it’s trading at a $7.2 AppFolio is what the markets want in a software+ company, at least in 2023. Let’s dig in.

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Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments 289

SaaStr

JUNE 5, 2020

“Salesforce’s IPO is also seen as a test of a new business model that could shake up the software industry. The company is the poster child for subscription-based software, a model that’s gaining popularity among corporate buyers. The SKYY First Trust Cloud Computing ETF has grown to $3.3 interest rate due in 2025.

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Clouded Judgement

JULY 26, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. If we rewind the clock back to the cloud buildout, the competition between the 3 main players has lead to numerous price changes. Subscribe now Share Clouded Judgement Leave a comment Follow along to stay up to date!

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