Happy Holidays? If You Haven’t Started Planning for the New Revenue Recognition Standard, You’re Behind
By Saloni Madhok, Marketing Manager at Zuora The end of a calendar year and all the holiday festivities accompanying it offer enough stress-inducing opportunities without us piling on, but we will anyway. The roadmap to success with the new revenue recognition standard should have started in 2014, according to accounting experts. Yes, the year with […]
What We Learned From businesses launching IoT solutions
I recently had the opportunity to host an excellent webinar with Forrester and Qualcomm about the opportunities emerging in virtually every industry with respect to monetizing the data gathered by connected devices. If you didn’t get a chance to join us you can watch the replay here. The participants (who included representatives from a number […]
Holiday Gift Guide: Connected Devices
Looking for the perfect holiday gift? There are lots of cool consumer tech products out there, but this year consider giving a gift that improves health, provides security and peace of mind. Part of the trend of Internet of Things (IoT), our recommended gifts are devices that deliver ongoing value to your loved ones through the use […]
Zuora Wins A 2015 Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award For Top 50 Places To Work
Zuora is very happy to report that we’ve won a 2015 Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award for the “Top 50 Places to Work” for companies with less than 1,000 employees. Glassdoor compiled responses from more than 250,000 employees among 65,000 companies around the world to compile their list of the Top 50 Places To Work. (See […]
Why Retail and Consumer Industries Should Dig Deeper into New Revenue Guidance
As we’re learning, the new revenue recognition standards are more principle-based than the existing system. Two industries that should take heed of this–and can be expected to exercise more judgement–are the retail and consumer industries. The new standards may impact those sectors more than the folks who work within them realize. For example, companies with […]
The IoT in 2015: Monetizing Connected Devices with Recurring Revenue Services
As Forrester Research notes, much of the early buzz surrounding IoT, particularly in the enterprise, has focused on efficiency and cost savings. New diagnostics will help improve utilization and maintenance of a host of expensive business assets. But in this age of the customer, a focus only on cost savings is misplaced. The next stage of IoT […]