SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Accounting Team Responsibilities: Financial recording and reporting Compliance, Audits Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable Tax, Treasury Your accounting team makes sure every financial transaction is recorded correctly and categorized. Cost Optimization Identify and implement strategies to improve margins.

Scale 239

Scale Finance Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting 239

Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Subscribe now Cloud Giants Report Q4 ‘23 Two quotes from the Amazon and Microsoft earnings call really stood out to me this week. Similar to what we shared last quarter, we continue to see the diminishing impact of cost optimizations. Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies.

Cost optimization & reporting 167

Cost optimization & reporting Cloud Azure AWS 167

Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Subscribe now Cloud Giants Report Q3 ‘23 Not a great signal for software this week from the Cloud Giants (AWS, Azure and Google Cloud)…After Q2 (3 months ago), the tone from the Cloud Giants around optimizations was largely: optimizations have started to ease, and net new workloads have picked up.

Cost optimization & reporting 157

Cost optimization & reporting Cloud Azure AWS 157

Clouded Judgement

JUNE 19, 2024

The 62 companies that I’ll discuss here (which is not an exhaustive list, but is still comprehensive) all reported quarterly earnings sometime between April 24th – June 10th. These charts clearly show the ZIRP pull forward, the ensuing cloud cost optimizations, and then the recovery.

Cloud 318

Cloud GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Software Azure 318

BetterCloud

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Last month, IT Brews webinar focused on an all too common issue – rising software costs colliding with sprawling tech stacks. The future of SaaS management With continued stressors like security and cost optimization, the future of SaaS management relies on integrating both user and spend management.

CTO 52

CTO Cost optimization & reporting SaaS Operational efficiency. 52

CloudGeometry

MARCH 3, 2022

In this blog series, we explore how these three dimensions figure into key technical recommendations which enable scale in pursuit of SaaS business growth. Cloud cost optimization and technical debt The speed and versatility of the SaaS model are a two-edged sword. Part 2: Monetization Saying “SaaS = monetization” is redundant.

Well Architected Framework 130

Well Architected Framework VPCs (Virtual Private Cloud) SaaS Cloud 130

CloudGeometry

APRIL 25, 2022

7 Cloud Cost Optimization Resource leverage (in the form of reusable software) is at the heart of the SaaS model. FinOps is a new discipline that defines best practices for closing gaps between feature implementation and the cost of services. They build on each other. Enterprise customers understand perfection is unattainable.

Enterprise readiness 130

Enterprise readiness Enterprise Technical Review Software Review 130