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Strategic Finance in Today’s Market: A Tactical Guide to Building & Scaling Your Team with IVP

SaaStr

The role of finance in SaaS is changing. No longer are finance teams the traditional “bean counters” of ages past. IVP Partner Michael Miao explains, “The role and the scope of the modern finance team has changed dramatically in the last decade. Cost Optimization Identify and implement strategies to improve margins.

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Clouded Judgement 10.11.24 - Budget Flush

Clouded Judgement

When companies reported Q4 ‘23 quarters, sentiment started to emerge that software was “bouncing back.” Coming out of that, every company from the largest enterprise to the smallest startup started thinking very critically about cost optimizations. Cost optimizations were everywhere.

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SaaS operations management guide

BetterCloud

With just about every company now running on SaaS, managing software applications has evolved from simple license tracking to a complex orchestration of integrations, performance monitoring, security, and cost optimization. This helps eliminate unnecessary costs and streamline your technology stack.

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7 Ways to build Enterprise Readiness into your SaaS roadmap

CloudGeometry

Optimize cloud economics and drive Business Goals. Proven best practices that help both finance & engineering teams In fact, it is entirely reasonable to ask about “Security and _” for almost any aspect of your SaaS application and platform. It’s not just that enterprises are rich targets. They build on each other.

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Monetization: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 2

CloudGeometry

Optimize cloud economics and drive Business Goals. Proven best practices that help both finance & engineering teams Of course, not all customers want to pay for all the features. Cloud cost optimization and technical debt The speed and versatility of the SaaS model are a two-edged sword.

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Managing infrastructure costs as your company grows

Intercom, Inc.

As a result of our reactive strategy, we are gifted with a backlog of cost optimization opportunities. Thanks to the evolution of our cost program, we now spend only one hour a week on cost management with great success. “The more you centralize cost governance, the less time you have to spend on it.