Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Amit Jain, Chief Product Officer, ServiceMax (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I’m seeing it everywhere right now. The investors are talking about it. They want to see vertical cloud products. Your insights are very timely. What are the open problems from where you sit? ServiceMax has achieved quite a bit of scale. What is your current ARR?

Amit Jain: We’re over $150 million ARR.

Sramana Mitra: I haven’t followed the recent state of the company. Are you public?

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Amit Jain, Chief Product Officer, ServiceMax (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Have Zendesk and Freshworks put in field services or are they integrating with other field service solutions?

Amit Jain: I don’t know of a solution from Zendesk and Freshworks specifically. The customer profile for them tends to be more mid-market versus our enterprise focus. We don’t have specific integrations into those systems.

Sramana Mitra: Your primary source of a help desk solution is all Salesforce-based?

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Amit Jain, Chief Product Officer, ServiceMax (Part 2)

Amit Jain: It made a lot of sense from two angles. One was, it was more cost-efficient and faster because we didn’t have to spin up a bunch of teams to build infrastructure. We focus our teams more on the differentiating capabilities of a field service solution. Also, it helps us that we are on the same technology platform as Salesforce. That’s where the ecosystem is valid.

October 13 – 593rd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

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