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SaaS purchasing insights

An interesting read about SaaS purchasing insights. Renewals can take 50% longer and an element is Vendor response times. SaaS Purchasing Insights Q1 2024 | VerticeWhen it comes to software spending, renewals have always accounted for a much larger slice of the pie. And often for good reason – familiarity, cost-effectiveness, minimal
Gary Shewan 26 Sep 2024

Always about costs

Tech is cool, but It’s always about costs. Often missing from a lot of conversations. Salesforce eyes pricing per AI conversationBenioff sees ‘very high margin opportunity’ in bid to ‘monetize’ productivity gainsThe RegisterLindsay Clark Investors concerned efficiencies will result in fewer seat sales. Benioff (CEO) likes PPC (‘Pay Per
Gary Shewan 29 Aug 2024

O365 infringes data protection rules

Back in 2021 the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) opened two investigations. One into the use of Cloud Services (Amazon and Microsoft), and the other into the use of MS Office 365 by the European Commission. Basically it’s to ensure that EU institutions are complying in relation to data
Gary Shewan 11 Mar 2024

The longest Atlassian Outage

Quite a sobering read and something to bear in mind when you consider ‘Plan B’ for SaaS applications. 10 days later and only 49% of those impacted have ‘functionality’ restored. A bit of a Black Swan event but I’ll certainly think about it when considering resilience. The Scoop: Inside
Gary Shewan 14 Apr 2022

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