Episode 4: How Much Does “Free” Cost?

Today’s episode of our “Ask the RevRec Experts” podcast includes a look back at some of the content we’ve made available this month. In addition, your hosts Matt and Jim touch upon a few of the reasons we’re so excited about our upcoming webinar, “Five Best Practices for a Successful Revenue Automation Implementation,” with Connor […]

Paper to Pixels: nytimes.com turns 20

Last week, The New York Times passed a significant milestone – the paper’s digital service marked its twentieth birthday. Two decades since the leading paper of the US began the switch from paper to pixels. This was probably one of the most pivotal points in not just the paper but the industry’s history. With the […]

How Ready is the Real Estate Industry for New Guidance?

As the new revenue recognition guidelines get ever closer to becoming the way of life for just about every industry, we continue our occasional deep dives into specific industries to shed light on what is coming, and much sooner than people may realize. Today, we take a look at how the guidelines could shuffle up […]

Episode 3: Who’s Affected by the New Guidance?

Shauna Watson, Global Managing Director of Finance & Accounting for RGP, joins Matt and Jim with some thoughtful feedback directed at companies that think the new revenue recognition guidance isn’t a ‘big deal’ or poses little impact. We asked Shauna what she would say to a representative of such a company. “I would say very […]

Launching the Zuora Community!

Over the years, Zuora has seen a creative and lively community of innovators, thinkers, and doers gather around our product. The thoughts and ideas of this community have allowed us to grow and mature along with our customers. To harness the energy and creativity of this community, we’ve built the all new Zuora Community site! […]

Walmart Pay isn’t about payments. It’s about relationships

By Tien Tzuo, CEO, Zuora Walmart made a big announcement last week about some new check-out functionality in their mobile app, which most journalists have been covering from a mobile payments perspective. I don’t think that’s the real story, though. Walmart Pay isn’t about saving ten seconds at the checkout counter. When it comes to […]

5 Ways to Make Macy’s Great Again

By Tien Tzuo, CEO, Zuora Growing up in New York, Macy’s meant the Thanksgiving parade, the Christmas windows, and a trip to 34th Street whenever we had visitors from out of town. But I can’t recall the last time I stepped into one. And you probably can’t either. Unfortunately, this is sadly reflected in the […]

The 2016 CSO Forecast: 7 Security Predictions

By Pritesh Parekh, VP & CSO, Zuora. 2015 has been an eventful year for Security teams in all sectors – the Financial, Retail and Healthcare sectors were prime targets; IoT grew to become a major source of concern for businesses and customers; and even Government services weren’t spared. Overall, an interesting year that set the stage […]

Episode 2: Adoption Timelines

We were pleased to be joined by our friends from HA&W for today’s episode of “Ask the RevRec Experts,” in which we seek to simplify some of the confusion around adoption timelines for the new guidance. Ramon Scheffer, Director of Financial Reporting Advisory Services, and Jagruti Solanki, Audit Manager of the Atlanta-based accounting firm, field […]

5 Go-To-Market Strategy Considerations

Face it, nobody really cares about your company. And why should they? They just want to know if and how your company can help them. We recently posted a great guide from Judy Loehr, Venture Partner with Cloud Apps Capital Partners – Nailing Your Go-To-Market Positioning, the core of your go-to-market strategy. Check out the […]

How Much Does “Free” Actually Cost?

“Both Oracle and SAP are behind other key players, such as Leeyo, in this space…Leeyo offers a mature product supporting both current and ASC 606 requirements.” -KPMG, Revenue Recognition Accounting Update Conference, Santa Clara, December 2015 We’ve known this for a long time, but it’s always nice to hear other industry experts extoll the virtues of our […]

Episode 1: The World’s Greatest RevRec Podcast

In a recent survey of our customers and prospective customers, we asked whether a revenue recognition-specific podcast would be of interest to people. The response was overwhelming in the affirmative. So with that, we are very pleased to introduce you to the “World’s Greatest RevRec Podcast.” While we debated using that not-so-subtle tagline for the […]