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News Analysis: Zuora Raises $50M Series E Round, Rides #MatrixCommerce Wave

News Analysis: Zuora Raises $50M Series E Round, Rides #MatrixCommerce Wave

By R "Ray" Wang on September 6, 2013

Zuora Rides The Wave In The Subscription Economy On September 5th, 2013, Foster City, CA based Zuora, announced $50 million in Series E capital.  The announcement has significant ramifications not only for Zuora’s self proclaimed subscription economy category, but also the broader business theme of matrix commerce because Zuora: Expanded the investor pool. Zuora successfully […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Apps Strategy, B2B, B2B E-commerce, B2C, B2C E-commerce, Benchmark Capital, billing, Business Models, Chief Customer Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief information officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Revenue Officer, Chief Sales Officer, Chief Service Officer, Cloud, Cloud Computing, CMO, collaborative consumption, commerce, Constellation Research, Dave Duffield, Digital Business, disruptive, disruptive business models, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, E-Commerce, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise strategy, finance, funding, Funding announcement, Greylock Partners, Index Ventures, Marc Benioff, Matrix Commerce, News Analysis, Next World Capital, Northgate Capital, R "Ray" Wang;, Redpoint Ventures, rwang0, SaaS, Sharing Economy, Shasta Ventures, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, Tenaya Capital, Tien Zuo, Vulcan Capital, workday, Zuora

2012 Was Workday’s Year; Who Will Own 2013 In HR Technology?

2012 Was Workday’s Year; Who Will Own 2013 In HR Technology?

By Naomi Bloom on January 2, 2013

And the winner is? [Shout-out to my colleague Lisa Rowan at IDC.  Her recent guest post was the impetus for my finishing this post, which I had started right after Workday went public on 10-12-2012.] 1987:  Bloom & Wallace and PeopleSoft Founded 1987 was a big year in the history of HR technology.  That’s the […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged ADP, Dave Duffield, enterprise software, HR Tech, HRM Software, Kronos, microsoft, oracle, Oracle Fusion, PeopleSoft, SaaS, sap, SAP AG, SAPSFSF, SuccessFactors, workday | 5 Responses

ERP'€™s Franken-soft and how Workday avoids it

ERP’€™s Franken-soft and how Workday avoids it

By Brian Sommer on November 13, 2012

The genesis of many application software products is a great idea. Someone conceives a better, newer way to achieve a business outcome, complete a process, etc. That idea gets codified and becomes an application. In some cases, it bec…

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged #wday, analytics, Cloud ERP, data model, Dave Duffield, erp, franken-soft, SaaS ERP, software maintenance, workday, Workday Rising

The existential threat to on-premise models

The existential threat to on-premise models

By Vinnie Mirchandani on November 13, 2012

4 years ago when I interviewed Sridhar Vembu, CEO of Zoho for The New Polymath, the prime driver in the marketplace for SaaS adoption was better economics compared to on-premise. But Sridhar also spoke about agility in SaaS delivery Feature parity to Microsoft Office (and other software) will come sooner than you may think. We […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged #wday, Dave Duffield, SaaS, sridhar vembu, workday, Workday Rising, zoho | 1 Response

A snapshot of enterprise cloud adopters at Workday Rising

A snapshot of enterprise cloud adopters at Workday Rising

By Phil Wainewright on November 12, 2012

Enterprise cloud applications vendor Workday, fresh from its recent IPO, held its annual convention this week. With many of its 350 customers and 200 prospects in Las Vegas for the event, it gave a good feel for the profile of the typ…

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged @aneelb, #wday, Aneel Bhusri, Cloud Computing, Dave Duffield, erp, Flextronics, SaaS, TripAdvisor, workday, Workday Rising

ERP’s Disruptive Moment

ERP’s Disruptive Moment

By Denis Pombriant on October 26, 2011

At Dreamforce Zuora, like many other emerging companies allied with Salesforce.com, decided to hold a user group meeting.  As long as the customers jointly held by Salesforce and Zuora were in town the logic went, why not have them in for a day of education, listening and a pep talk form the boss. It was […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged CRM, Dave Duffield, erp, oracle, salesforce.com, sap, workday, Workday Rising, Zuora

Workday and Hoover Dam: Valuing Cloud Companies

Workday and Hoover Dam: Valuing Cloud Companies

By David Dobrin on March 29, 2011

Groupon at $6 billion, for what, coupons? Twitter at who knows how much more, for what, stray pulses of thought? CornerStone OnDemand at 10 times revenues? How much of that is for the words “OnDemand” cleverly tacked onto the name? Are we in the middle of a cloud boom? And if so, can we learn […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud Computing, Dave Duffield, Enterprise Application Strategies, Flextronics, Groupon, Hoover Dam, How to Buy Applications, NoSQL Apps, PeopleSoft, SaaS, software as a service, Uncategorized, workday | 2 Responses

Well-spent Workday @ Workday–Here’s the Firehose

Well-spent Workday @ Workday–Here’s the Firehose

By Zoli Erdos on August 24, 2010

Yesterday I was privileged to sit in a group of 20 or so analysts (many of them fellow Enterprise Irregulars) invited to Workday’s first ever Technology Summit. For short background, Workday’s original call to fame came from it’s Founder, Dave Duffield, an Enterprise Software Legend, who built PeopleSoft from nothing to a position of challenging […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged communication, Dave Duffield, enterprise software, erp, HRM, PeopleSoft, SaaS, sap, Social Media, software as a service, Twitter, workday, workdaytech | 1 Response

M&A Observations: Whither Goest Genesys?

M&A Observations: Whither Goest Genesys?

By Naomi Bloom on August 13, 2010

Late-breaking news.  Genesys’ buyer is PeopleStrategy, the current owner of Integral Systems (which was Dave Duffield’s predecessor company to PeopleSoft, so we’re going back here to the mid-80′s for it’s heyday).  PeopleStrategy is led by Randy Cooper, who also led the buy of Genesys for Salary.com.  Randy is very experienced with that generation of HRMS, having […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Aging, Dave Duffield, erp, HR Tech, HRM Software, Integral Systems, Looking Back/Looking Forward, M&A/PE/Ownership Changes, PeopleSoft, Salary.com, workday

Friday’s Feature: Workday Release 10 Moves Users One Step Closer To ERP Replacement

Friday’s Feature: Workday Release 10 Moves Users One Step Closer To ERP Replacement

By R "Ray" Wang on March 26, 2010

Workday Continues To Pioneer SaaS Success In The Enterprise Founded by Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri in March 2005, Workday has grown the company to over 135 customers with 80+ companies in production, 17 enterprise payroll companies, and over 400 employees in 50 countries worldwide.  Key industries include services, technology, financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, and […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Aneel Bhusri, Chiquita, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud options, Dave Duffield, enteprise apps, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, erp, Flextronics, Friday's Feature, HCM, oracle, payroll, PeopleSoft, sap, social enterprise apps, Spend Management, strategic HCM, succession planning, True SaaS, two-tier ERP, usability, User Experience, ux, workday, Workday Rising | 1 Response

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