ASC 606 Adoption Help is Here

By Jim Staats, Senior Account Manager at Zuora Cavalry, n., ca-val-ry, from French cavalerie or cheval ‘horse,’ soldiers or warriors who fought mounted on horseback. Historically, the cavalry had the advantage of not only improved mobility, but greater height, speed and inertial mass over an opponent on foot. Hey folks, while it is true the cavalry […]

The $100M Question All SaaS Founders Must Ask

Interview with Tien Tzuo for the SaaStr podcast can be accessed on iTunes. SaaStr 094: The $100m Question All SaaS Founders Must Ask, Learnings From Working with Marc Benioff at Salesforce & Scaling Zuora @TienTzuo is the Founder and CEO @ Zuora, one of the fastest growing SaaS companies that has been at the forefront of […]

Z-Women Earning Awards and Recognition Across the Globe

We want to take a moment to recognize our inspirational and powerful women leaders here at Zuora… Zuora is a strong supporter of women as evidenced by our Z-Women group which was established to provide a platform where women of Zuora can share ideas, experience, and knowledge – promoting their leadership, technical and professional skills […]

Z-Women Earning Awards and Recognition Across the Globe

We want to take a moment to recognize our inspirational and powerful women leaders here at Zuora… Zuora is a strong supporter of women as evidenced by our Z-Women group which was established to provide a platform where women of Zuora can share ideas, experience, and knowledge – promoting their leadership, technical and professional skills […]

Cisco-AppDynamics $3.7 billion deal is all about the data

Excerpts from an article by Ron Miller in TechCrunch When Cisco bought AppDynamics last night for $3.7 billion, it was initially a bit of a shocker, partly because of the timing, just days before the startup was scheduled to IPO. While the acquisition was clearly part of a longer term strategy by Cisco to shift […]

6 reasons why app stores should transition to subscription models

Excerpts from an article by Lauren Wilmore in The Next Web According to a 2013 Economist study, four out of every five businesses (that’s 80 percent for those of us who don’t do math) are seeing a change in how their customers want to access and pay for goods and services. And as a result, […]

What Donald Trump Doesn’t Get In the Debate Over Trade: The Subscription Economy

By Tien Tzuo, CEO of Zuora, originally published in Fortune.   For all of Donald Trump’s gripes around large trade deals, such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), it’s worth taking a closer look at a trend that is often overlooked: global trade is falling. Since 2012, trade in […]

Crazy Eights: Meet the Revenue Experts in Eight Fun Questions

Editor’s note: Today’s post is the latest in a series of introductions to the people behind RevPro, the world’s leading revenue recognition automation solution. Geoff Robles represents Zuora as Regional Sales Manager for the Southeast portion of the U.S., having joined the company more than two years ago. Geoff’s two decades of experience in enterprise […]

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Go ahead, subscribe to something smart today — a newspaper, a magazine, or a content site that you like. You’ll be in good company. A recent Nielsen Scarborough Study found that more than 169 million US adults now read newspapers every month, in print, online or mobile. That’s almost 70% of the population. Here’s what […]

TripAdvisor Expands Subscription Business Into Restaurants

By Dennis Schaal in Skift The global restaurant business is getting professionalized and wired-up in terms of its digital acumen and TripAdvisor is making a big move to further monetize its 4.2 million restaurant listings by launching a subscription service with added features for dining establishments. In so doing, TripAdvisor is taking a shot at […]

3 Under-the-Radar Strategies for Growth in 2017

Guest blog post by Sertifi The basics of growing a business are no secret – build a great product, invest in talented people, and find the sales strategy that works for you (easy, right?). If you are reading this blog post, you are probably already hitting the right marks for steady, incremental growth, but may […]

Feedback frenzy: Can subscription businesses fill in data blanks?

By R Danes in SiliconANGLE As companies struggle to convert the right data types into a profit punch, new approaches are tested and discarded. One method for honing in on customer behavior may lie in the emerging subscription economy. Can the data flowing in from subscriptions, combined with other data inputs, help businesses better understand […]