The Modern Business CFO

STRATEGIC GUIDANCE The Modern Business CFO Strategic value of finance Authored by: Michael Mansard, Todd McElhatton Over the past decade, the office of the CFO has undergone a rapid metamorphosis, often donning the additional cap of  “Chief Value Officer” to their organizations. Tasked with driving strategic planning, infusing a data-driven decision-making culture, ensuring continuous risk […]

Evolving Your Deal Desk for Modern Business

FRAMEWORKS / MODELS: Evolving Your Deal Desk for Modern Business Authored by: David Warren, Principal Director, Zuora Subscribed Institute One of the biggest perpetual challenges facing organizations is driving change across siloed business functions. To combat this, companies are establishing interstitial teams designed to bridge process and information gaps in order to achieve better outcomes. […]

Zuora Announces Real-Time Revenue to Help Businesses Achieve a Financial Close as Early as Day Zero

With Zuora Revenue, companies now have real-time insights to instantly recognize, reconcile, and analyze revenue for subscriptions, products, and usage-based services REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — November 16, 2021 — Zuora, Inc. (NYSE: ZUO), the leading cloud-based subscription management platform provider, today announced Real-Time Revenue for Zuora® Revenue. Now, with Real-Time Revenue, businesses can automatically recognize, […]

Zuora Announces Integration with Microsoft to Accelerate Growth of Subscription Economy and Automate Enterprise Revenue Recognition

Integrations with Azure, Dynamics 365 Finance, and Power BI will strengthen Zuora’s core offerings: accelerating innovation and enhancing the subscriber experience Redwood City, Calif. – September 16, 2021 — Zuora, Inc., (NYSE:ZUO), a leading cloud-based subscription management platform, today announced a multi-tiered agreement with Microsoft to integrate several Microsoft products with Zuora®. Today’s companies are […]

Subscriptions bring big rewards in tough economy [XaaS]

This article was originally written and produced by Accenture’s Kevin Dobbs. To listen to the podcast featuring Kevin and Zuora CEO Tien Tzuo, visit: https://www.accenture.com/us-en/blogs/high-tech/subscription-model-trends   I thought I was a change ninja until I met Tien Tzuo, CEO of Zuora. In case you’re not familiar, Zuora is an enterprise software company that helps businesses launch and […]

B2B Pricing Strategies from the Subscribed Institute

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Pricing ambiguity is inherent to the subscription model. This can be either empowering or paralyzing. There’s a lot of pressure not to mess it up. You can give your service away for free, and spend years chasing down brutally small conversion rates. You can make things too complicated with too many pricing charts and feature […]

The Future of Financial Services

In the past ten years, the Financial Services Industry (FSI) has seen tremendous change. We have witnessed an overall decreasing growth rate, accelerating churn, and a competitive landscape – a perfect recipe for a deep industry transformation that will accelerate even more in the years to come.

Zuora and GoCardless Expand Partnership to Revolutionize Global Subscription Payments

Zuora, Inc. (NYSE: ZUO), the leading subscription management platform provider, today announced an expanded global partnership and new product integration with GoCardless to help companies across more than 30 countries, including the U.S., U.K., Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada process recurring payments faster and reduce payment-related costs and customer churn.