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Thanks to everyone for another fantastic All About the Cloud conference!

SIIA Issue Brief: Building a High Value SaaS Business

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

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.

Announcing CEO Interview Publication: SIIA’s Vision From The Top

SIIA is launching a new publication at this year’s All About the Cloud conference, “SIIA’s Vision From The Top”!

The publication brings together thought leadership from over 45 of SIIA Member companies. Their CEO’s were asked to address the past, present and future changes in the software industry.

SIIA Members-only Issue Brief: Key Characteristics of a PaaS offering

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.

ICANN’s Planned Expansion of gTLDs: Opportunities and Challenges

While some entrepreneurs and technology companies welcome the opportunity that new gTLDs will bring, and plan to submit applications to run new gTLDs, other trademark and copyright owners are rightfully concerned about the potential for increased piracy and abusive domain name registrations.

This webcast will discuss the process, likely implications, and strategies for dealing with new gTLDs.

Featuring:
Steve Metalitz, Partner, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP, counsel for the Coalition for Online Accountability (COA)
Scott Bain, Chief Litigation Counsel & Director, Internet Anti-piracy, Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA)

SIIA & OPEXEngine: Let the Data Set You Free!

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

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