On Monday, Microsoft announced it will definitevly be acquiring LinkedIn for $196 a share, totalling $26.2 billion to be payed in cash. While the transaction has been approved from both parties, it will not be final until it has undergone regulatory approvals. LinkedIn investors profited nicely as shares jumped up 64 percent from $131.08 on…
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IBM Acquires Optevia, Expanding Role as Solutions Provider for Public Sector Clients
Optevia, a privately owned SaaS systems integrator specializing in Microsoft Dynamics CRM solutions for public sector organizations, will join IBM Global Business Services. The giant has bought Optevia for an undisclosed sum in a deal announced Friday morning. UK-based Optevia will be folded into IBM Global Business Services, which is seeing staff axed as part…
5 Inspiring Books I Expect to See on Your Shelf
These 5 reads are game-changers, each has a profound impact on our industry. Written by top industry thought-leaders, these books offer fascinating, sometimes even revolutionary, perspectives on various topics that touch businesses nowadays, including sales, management and entrepreneurship. I hope these books will inspire you. Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com…
Six Customer Success Insights from SaaStr’s, ‘From Impossible to Inevitable’
Attending SaaStr Annual 2016 was exciting, inspirational and a must go-to conference for anyone starting a business or in the early stages of raising capital. The networking alone is worth it! The speakers, including many of the most influential tech industry founders, VCs, CEOs, and VPs, shared how important customer success is to their profitability.…
5 Ways Fintech is Revolutionizing Traditional Banking
Despite how hotly contested software-as-a-service (SaaS) or cloud computing is in the banking industry, there’s no stopping the migration to digital. And, at the end of the day, cloud computing is a reliable model that has the ability to change the landscape of financial services because it offers consumers access to banking systems without previous…
The Best SaaS Articles of This Week
From math to data this week we explore different ways and methods to boost your SaaS product and touch on topics of hosting infrastructure and millennials engagement. This week’s top 5 SaaS articles are good to go. The Math Behind SaaS Startup Customer Lifetime Value The lifetime value of their customers is a central metric…
Great SaaS Articles This Week
Software as a service is all over the news and I handpicked my favorite recent articles that shed some more light on interesting features and opportunities this technology offers. This collections is especially relevant for entrepreneurs and startups that wish to enter the SaaS world, Enjoy. SaaS Steps Over the Line – and Closer…
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