Workday continues its innovations in Analyst Summits
A decade ago, Workday pioneered with its Technology Day format. I wrote back then “Few vendors have the guts to be open to such a smart and opinionated bunch as Workday was during its Technology Day yesterday. Like a marathon…
How Do Future of Work Companies Perform in a Crisis
Last quarter, we launched the Future of Work Global Index to track and benchmark technology companies focused on the transformation of work. The world has changed in just 3 months. The global Coronavirus pandemic has immediately changed global economies, industries, and the future of work itself. A large portion of the workforce has now forcefully […]
SAP’s Integration Urgency
Talking about the heady days in the late 90s, one of SAP’s best salespeople had reminisced: “It was a truly transformational time for the technology industry. We replaced thousands of departmental and mainframe systems. We put MSA, M&D, and many…
Introducing the Future of Work Global Index
Over the last few years, a lot has been written about “The Future of Work.” Everyone from McKinsey to the World Economic Forum have made predictions regarding skills shortages, the need for training and skills development, and the future of jobs. But what about the technology that is enabling the massive disruption in work. Last quarter, […]
Public Cloud Soaring To $331B By 2022 According To Gartner
Gartner predicts the worldwide public cloud service market will grow from $182.4B in 2018 to $331.2B in 2022, attaining a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.6%. Spending on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is predicted to increase from $30.5B in 2018 to $38.9B in 2019, growing 27.5% in a year. Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) spending is predicted to grow […]
2018 Roundup Of Cloud Computing Forecasts And Market Estimates
Cloud computing platforms and applications are proliferating across enterprises today, serving as the IT infrastructure driving new digital businesses. The following roundup of cloud computing forecasts and market estimates reflect a maturing global market for cloud services, with proven scale, speed and security to support new business models. CIOs who are creating compelling business cases […]
Storm Ventures $180M SaaS Fund – Congrat’s Jason & Anshu
Congratulations to fellow Enterprise Irregulars Jason Lemkin and Anshu Sharma on raising the new Fund, and to Anshu on joining Storm Ventures. Oh, and thanks for pimping the EI early in the video
The SaaS Billionaires and Naysayers
If you are on your journey as an entrepreneur to truly build something new and revolutionary, you will hear a lot of naysayers along the way. Salesforce and Workday both announced their financial results — once again showing that they continue to grow as part of the larger movement to SaaS. Salesforce is now generating almost half […]
OneSource Virtual: Born in the RPA Cloud
We’ve been so focused on how Robotic Process Automation is being implemented across legacy application environments, we missed how it is also being rolled out in “Born in the Cloud” business environments
Eating My Own SaaStr Dogfood: Why I Invested in RainforestQA
To keep me honest (in this age of misremembering just which helicopter one was on), I want to continue our small series re: investments where I’ve put more that $1m into a SaaS company, and why I did it as examples of the SaaStr themes and learnings. My most recent investment here is a company called RainforestQA. […]
