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SaaS contracts and cash flow

SaaS contracts and cash flow

By Phil Wainewright on April 2, 2010

Many customers are willing to pay up to three years in advance for SaaS contracts, which can make a huge difference to the vendor’s bank balance. But what are the potential pitfalls?

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Business Model, Business Models, Cloud Computing, Contract, Customer Experience, netsuite, Operational Accounting, Revenue, RightNow Technologies, SaaS, salesforce.com, Service level management, software as a service, software licensing, Venture Capital

Why Microsoft and Intuit need each other's clouds

Why Microsoft and Intuit need each other’s clouds

By Phil Wainewright on January 20, 2010

Today’s announcement that Microsoft and Intuit are to marry up their cloud platforms with a software development kit makes perfect sense to me. Some of my ZDNet colleagues have been less impressed — Dennis Howlett calls it more PaaS to put in your aaS environment while Mary Jo Foley says it’s to shore up Redmond’s […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Azure, Cloud Computing, Development, ecosystems, integration, Intuit, Intuit Partner Platform, microsoft, Platform as a service, Service level management

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