What SaaS Products Built on Salesforce.com’s PaaS Have Gained Substantial Traction?

Earlier this week, Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) announced its fourth quarter results. While the company outpaced market expectations for the quarter, its weak outlook has sent the stock falling. In the after hours trading session, its stock slipped 3%.

Should Veeva do a PaaS Strategy?

According to a Zion market research report, the global healthcare cloud computing market is estimated to grow 19% annually over the next few years to $61.84 billion by 2025 from $18.85 billion in 2018 driven by the continued adoption of IoT, wearable devices, and big data analytics in the healthcare sector, and the continued demand for

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Cloud Stocks: Open Platform Strategy Stands Intuit in Good Stead

It is tax season and initial reports suggest that there may be a slowdown in the e-filings. According to the IRS data through February 8th, the total e-filed returns fell 7.1% and assisted e-files fell 12.5% over the year. The new tax legislation and the extended partial government shutdown is expected to have impacted consumer

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: HubSpot Acquired 9 Smaller Start-ups

According to a research report by WARC and Moore Stephens, the global MarTech budgets have grown 44% last year to $99.9 billion with about 23% of marketing budgets now spent on MarTech in the UK and North America. Billion Dollar Unicorn HubSpot (NYSE:HUBS) continues to see rapid adoption of its services as well.

Billion Dollar Unicorns: Will Ping Identity List or Be Acquired?

According to a Market Research Engine report, the global Identity and Access Management Market is expected to grow 12% over the next few years to $14.5 billion by 2021. Denver, Colorado-based Ping Identity is a leading player in the segment that has had an interesting run so far.

Billion Dollar Unicorns: Qualys Acquires 1Mby1M Company Adya

According to a Research and Markets report, the global security and vulnerability management market is expected to grow 9.3% over the next few years to $13.7 billion by 2026. Earlier this week, cloud-based security player Qualys (Nasdaq: QLYS) reported its upbeat fourth quarter results. Qualys also recently announced the acquisition of a 1Mby1M company Adya.

Billion Dollar Unicorns: SurveyMonkey Should Do A Platform Strategy

According to a recent report, the global online survey software market is estimated to have grown 12% annually over the period 2014 to 2018 to $2.8 billion in 2018. The industry is estimated to grow to $5.7 billion by the year 2020. Billion Dollar Unicorn SurveyMonkey (Nasdaq: SVMK) recently reported its fourth quarter results that

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Apptio Decides to Go Back to Being Privately Held

IT Business Management firm Apptio has had a roller coaster ride in the past few years. Founded in 2007, Apptio had listed on the Nasdaq in 2016. The company continued to gain valuation while being listed. But last year, it agreed to be acquired by private equity firm Vista Equity Partners in a move that

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