Tag Archives: SaaS

Skills shortages – Automation isn’t enough to fix the issue

Posted on March 23, 2022 by capioIT - Phil Hassey

Forbes estimates that by 2030 the global skills shortage will be 85 million people. The cost to the worldwide economy is unrealised revenue of $8 trillion.  The skills shortages impacts all industries; retail and hospitality are the most obvious. From a technology … Continue reading →

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Xero acquires Waddle – AccountingTech meets FinTech meets SmallBizTech.

Posted on August 26, 2020 by capioIT - Phil Hassey

On August 25th, 2020, SMB Accounting SaaS heavyweight Xero announced the acquisition of Waddle for a reported A$80M (including long term incentives). Waddle is an Australian based invoice lending cloud platform. For most small businesses, access to capital is consistently … Continue reading →

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More evidence – Tough times for legacy tech vendors, and golden time for the Cloud

Posted on March 4, 2020 by capioIT - Phil Hassey

Software Asset Management and Licensing app provider Flexera recently published a report on technology investments that makes fascinating, scary or reassuring reading depending upon your perspective. The Flexera™ State of Technology Spend Report was based on over 300 interviews with … Continue reading →

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All Go for Zoho

Posted on February 11, 2020 by capioIT - Phil Hassey

SaaS provider Zoho held their 2020 Analyst Day at their new US hometown of Austin, Texas January 29-31st. If you don’t know Zoho, think of them as an Austin, Texas for the tech industry. It is definitely not weird, but … Continue reading →

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Dreamforce 2019 – Still going its own way

Posted on December 15, 2019 by capioIT - Phil Hassey

A Barack Obama fireside chat, Alicia Keys and a piano out of nowhere to sign off on Marc Benioff’s keynote, members of Prince’s band on the concourse, Neil Finn’s latest backing band AKA Fleetwood Mac at an apparently un-named baseball … Continue reading →

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Freshworks wants you to Refresh to a Customer For Life

Posted on September 24, 2019 by capioIT - Phil Hassey

Freshworks is one of the more interesting SaaS startups that has reached the scale of being a viable and reliable long term business. It originated in Chennai, which at the time of founding in 2009 was not a hub of … Continue reading →

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Salesforce – Acquires Tableau, accelerates analytics as it plays a Customer 360 game

Posted on June 12, 2019 by capioIT - Phil Hassey

Salesforce announced on Monday, June 10th (US time) the acquisition of data visualisation leader Tableau for US$15.7B. Some jaws dropped at the purchased and the price and some at the purchaser. It was inevitable that Tableau would be acquired, Oracle, … Continue reading →

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DXC Acquires System Partners – Finally joins the Salesforce Ecosystem

Posted on September 27, 2018 by capioIT - Phil Hassey

At Dreamforce 2018 today, DXC announced the acquisition of Australian based Salesforce Platinum partner, System Partners. System Partners is one of the leading integrators in Australia, with a focus on Financial Services and the Public Sector. Firstly, congratulations to both … Continue reading →

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capioIT releases the 2018 Global Salesforce Solution Providers Capture Share Report – Accenture still leads the way, but competition is catching up.

Posted on August 27, 2018 by capioIT - Phil Hassey

The constant growth of Salesforce has proven to be on of the critical success stories for the SaaS market, if not the most outstanding success. In 2018 it passed US$10B in revenue and is on track to be the fastest … Continue reading →

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AWS Reinvents AWS. Again

Posted on December 8, 2017 by capioIT - Phil Hassey

In the last week of November 2017, AWS held it’s customer event, Reinvent in Las Vegas. Not surprisingly, it is big. Total attendees were 43,000. Last year it was less than 30,000. Everyone knows AWS is big. In the last … Continue reading →

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