Articles
Intelligence community migrates to cloud technology at lightning speed
The U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) is moving at lightning speed to harness the advantages of migrating its networks to the cloud, enabling faster data consolidation, broader access to time-sensitive information and operationally significant network integration. Working with AWS, this multi-faceted, multi-year initiative appears to have already massively transformed operations into a new, improved era. Read more
Most companies have ‘orphaned’ SaaS apps in their stacks
The New York City-based Blissfully tracks SaaS application usage and spending for about a thousand brands, whose cumulative data is embodied in “2019 SaaS Trends”. According to this, an average company with 200 to 500 employees uses about 123 Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications these days and 40+ percent of those subscriptions might go unused. Read more
SaaS spending increasing by 78 percent year-over-year
43% of the average company’s SaaS application stack changed in the last two years, according to the 2019 Annual SaaS Trends report. This is far greater than the typical employee churn rate. Meanwhile, spending has not slowed down – the average SaaS spend per company increased 78 percent year-over-year across organizations in Blissfully’s dataset. Read more
Berlin-based SaaS banking platform Mambu picks up €30M funding to accelerate growth
Berlin-based Mambu is a SaaS banking platform that powers digital financial services, providing flexible, innovative banking architectures that allow its clients to operate like tech companies rather than banks. The startup has just raised €30 million in its latest funding round led by US-based Bessemer Venture Partners. Read more
Tips
5 SaaS Renewal Process Best Practices for Customer Retention
3 Reasons (Among Many) for Adopting a SaaS Legal Hold Solution
12 Ways to Streamline Communications With SaaS Vendors
Interviews
What you can expect from LogicMonitor’s APAC expansion: CTO Mark Banfield
LogicMonitor is a provider of SaaS-based infrastructure monitoring software for hybrid IT environment which allows businesses to maintain their critical infrastructure on-premise and in the cloud. Channellife talked to chief revenue officer Mark Banfield and APAC regional manager Harry Guy about what the A/NZ channel and end users can expect to see from LogicMonitor this year. Read more
Hampus Jakobsson of Brisk and TAT
Hampus Jakobsson is the co-founder of Brisk.io and The Astonishing Tribe, and now Partner at BlueYard. For this interview episode from Founder Coffee, Hampus talked about how he started with a group of friends in a dorm room and quickly embarked on an epic journey, sailing where the wind would blow. Read more
