Author Archives: Ron Miller

Databricks announces $400M round on $6.2B valuation as analytics platform continues to grow

Posted on by

Databricks is a SaaS business built on top of a bunch of open source tools, and apparently it’s been going pretty well on the business side of things. In fact, the company claims to be one of the fastest growing enterprise cloud companies ever. Today the company announced a massive $400 million Series F funding […] Continue reading Databricks announces $400M round on $6.2B valuation as analytics platform continues to grow→

Slack announces new features to help ease app integration pain

Posted on by

As Slack has grown in popularity, one of the company’s key differentiators has been the ability to integrate with other enterprise tools, but as customers use Slack as a central work hub, it has created its own set of problems. In particular, users have trouble understanding what apps they have access to and how to […] Continue reading Slack announces new features to help ease app integration pain→

Early stage privacy startup DataGrail gets boost from Okta partnership

Posted on by

When Okta launched its $50 million Okta Ventures investment fund in April, one of its investments was in an early stage privacy startup called DataGrail. Today, the companies announced a partnership that they hope will help boost DataGrail, while providing Okta customers with a privacy tool option. DataGrail CEO and co-founder Daniel Barber says that […] Continue reading Early stage privacy startup DataGrail gets boost from Okta partnership→

Microsoft acquires Mover to help with Microsoft 365 cloud migration

Posted on by

Microsoft wants to make it as easy as possible to migrate to Microsoft 365, and today the company announced it had purchased a Canadian startup called Mover to help. The companies did not reveal the acquisition price. Microsoft 365 is the company’s bundle that includes Office 365, Microsoft Teams, security tools and workflow. The idea […] Continue reading Microsoft acquires Mover to help with Microsoft 365 cloud migration→

Veteran enterprise exec Bob Stutz is heading back to SAP

Posted on by

Bob Stutz has had a storied career with enterprise software companies including stints at Siebel Systems, SAP, Microsoft and Salesforce. He announced on Facebook last week that he’s leaving his job as head of the Salesforce Marketing Cloud and heading back to SAP as president of customer experience. Constellation Research founder and principal analyst Ray […] Continue reading Veteran enterprise exec Bob Stutz is heading back to SAP→

Pendo scores $100M Series E investment on $1 billion valuation

Posted on by

Pendo, the late stage startup that helps companies understand how customers are interacting with their apps, announced a $100 million Series E investment today on a valuation of $1 billion. The round was led by Sapphire Ventures . Also participating were new investors General Atlantic and Tiger Global, and existing investors Battery Ventures, Meritech Capital, […] Continue reading Pendo scores $100M Series E investment on $1 billion valuation→

&Open helps businesses distribute gifts to reward customer loyalty

Posted on by

&Open is a startup with an unusual name, and one that fills an unusual niche in the business world. It has built a gift giving platform, so that businesses can reward loyalty with a small token of appreciation. The gift depends on the business and the circumstances, but it could be something like a book […] Continue reading &Open helps businesses distribute gifts to reward customer loyalty→

Amazon migrates more than 100 consumer services from Oracle to AWS databases

Posted on by

AWS and Oracle love to take shots at each other, but as much as Amazon has knocked Oracle over the years, it was forced to admit that it was in fact a customer. Today in a company blog post, the company announced it was shedding Oracle for AWS databases, and had effectively turned off its […] Continue reading Amazon migrates more than 100 consumer services from Oracle to AWS databases→

Why it might have been time for new leadership at SAP

Posted on by

SAP CEO Bill McDermott announced he was stepping down last night after a decade at the helm in an announcement that shocked many. It’s always tough to measure the performance of an enterprise leader when he or she leaves. Some people look at stock price over their tenure. Some at culture. Some at the acquisitions […] Continue reading Why it might have been time for new leadership at SAP→

Top VCs, founders share how to build a successful SaaS company

Posted on by

Last week at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, we hosted a panel on the Extra Crunch stage on “How to build a billion-dollar SaaS company.” A better title probably would have been “How to build a successful SaaS company.” We spoke to Whitney Bouck, COO at HelloSign; Jyoti Bansal, CEO and founder at Harness, and […] Continue reading Top VCs, founders share how to build a successful SaaS company→