Tag Archives: Subscription business model

October 17, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Netsuite Introduces Billing and Subscription Service

By Ben Kepes

At the NetSuite SuiteWorld conference held earlier this year, CEO Zach Nelson announced that the company would begin to provide some billing and subscription functionality into their platform. Billing in the services based world is an immense nightmare, others have delved into intricate detail of the reasons why this is

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May 14, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Zuora Partners With a Host of Mid Market Financial Vendors

By Ben Kepes

In my extensive writing around the subscription billing space, I have often noted that it is a very polarized sector of our industry with a handful of well funded companies providing services for large organizations – Zuora, Vindicia and Aria fit in this space. These companies are maneuvering for position

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May 7, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Zuora and Citrix Announce Partnership

By Ben Kepes

  News today of yet another partnership for SaaS subscription and billing provider Zuora – this time they’re signing up Citrix as a customer with Zuora powering the subscription and billing parts of Citrix’ CloudPortal Services Manager. The deal is essentially a simple one, Citrix wants to provide cloud tools

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July 20, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Aria Scoops a Tier1 Telco Customer

By Ben Kepes

I’ve spent a couple of years closely following the subscription and billing space – particularly the SaaS startups that are hoping to be the face of the next generation of technology. Historically of course, billing has been dominated by two particular approaches. The first is home baked solutions that large

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June 15, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Zuora Helps Tata Go To Market

By Ben Kepes

Customer success stories always make good posts, and I especially enjoy when they’re stories that how the agility to be gained from using *aaS instead of more traditional approached. I was interested then to gear about Tata Communications, the $2.5B telecom arm of the $80B Tata Group, roll out of

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May 30, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Zuora and NetSuite–Synergies

By Ben Kepes

One of the multitude of announcements at SuiteWorld last week was the release of a new combined solution for NetSuite customers that integrated Zuora’s subscription and billing offering with NetSuite’s ERP. While the news is a week old already – I keep a watching brief on the subscription and billing

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April 6, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Zuora Picks Another Vertical–Saving Telcos

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written previously about the masterful way in which Zuora reinvents it’s core product, repackaging it in new ways to sell to a different vertical industry. Previously Zuora had targeted media companies and cloud providers – this time it’s the turn of telcos to enjoy the polished spin of Zuora

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January 31, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Fourth Quarter Earning–Billing and Subscription Hotting Up

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written pretty regularly about SaaS billing and subscription services and how, in my view, they’re an indicator for the greater cloud economy. Given that then it’s pretty interesting to see the results just announced by Aria Systems and Vindicia recently (Zuora is still in its current quarter and their

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