Thanks to everyone for another fantastic All About the Cloud conference!
SIIA Issue Brief: Building a High Value SaaS Business
May 19, 2011 By
Building a High Value SaaS Business (SIIA Members-only Download)
Authored by Kevin Dobbs, Montclair Advisors, LLC and Lauren Kelley, CEO, OPEXEngine
This white paper will examine how successful Software-as-a-Service companies have built their businesses to map to new buyer dynamics, created customer-centric and data-driven management cultures and done it all in a way that drives very attractive company valuations.
Upcoming member deadline: May 25th is the last day to submit your 2011 Software Benchmarking Survey by OPEXEngine. Free for SIIA members under $10M in revenue, for more information about SIIA membership contact Seth Dean.
Protect IP Legislation Introduced Against Rogue Sites
May 18, 2011 By
Last week, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Leahy, ranking member Grassley, and Senator Hatch introduced S. 968, “The Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act” (The PROTECT IP Act).
Similar to last year’s COICA bill, the PROTECT IP Act applies to Internet sites that are “dedicated to infringing activities,” (aka “rogue websites”). The bill allows the Department of Justice (DOJ) or an IP owner to sue the rogue sites. A court order will issue, if the Internet site is found to be “dedicated to infringement,” directed at U.S. consumers and harms U.S. IP owners.
If the action is brought by DOJ, the court order may (with court authority) then be served on ISPs, financial transaction providers, online advertising services, and search engines. In response to the order, ISPs and search engines would be required to take steps to prevent access to the site and financial transaction providers and online advertising services would be required to cease doing business with the site.
An action brought by the IP owner would operate similarly except that the order may only be served on financial transaction providers and advertising services (not to ISPs or search engines). The bill is included on the agenda to be marked up at the Senate Judiciary Committee business meeting this Thursday.
SIIA Members-only Issue Brief: Key Characteristics of a PaaS offering
March 29, 2011 By
Authored by Amit Manghani, SAP and Rachel Lyubovitzky, SaaShr.com
The Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) industry continues to grow rapidly. The success of SaaS is driving broad change across the technology industry. Software vendors, both large and small, are contemplating on how to adapt to the new paradigms of the SaaS market, while a large number of developers across the world are moving to SaaS application development.
One of the most significant implications of this broad based change is the emergence of a new kind of software platform. The increase in SaaS application consumption and development is driving the need for a new set of platform technologies built specifically to support SaaS. In this issue brief, we outline the key attributes/elements that characterize a “best-in-class” Platform-As-A- Service (PaaS) offering – a cloud-enabled application development platform.
SIIA members can download the full paper here.
For information about joining SIIA and the benefits of membership, contact Seth Dean.
SIIA & OPEXEngine: Let the Data Set You Free!
February 23, 2011 By
Hear how Kelly Battles, CFO of Host Analytics, works with her finance team to track key financial and operating metrics data to drive performance and keep the company on track to deliver growth in 2011. In addition, Lauren Kelley, CEO of OPEXEngine will present key software industry benchmarks from OPEXEngine’s comprehensive financial and operating benchmarking report, developed in partnership with the SIIA. Join us for this informative webinar to learn more about how the benefits of metrics-driven, fact based decision making can help you drive better performance and efficiency within your own organization.
Presenters:
Lauren Kelley, CEO & Founder, OPEXEngine
Kelly Battles, CFO, Host Analytics