6. SaaS billing is heating up and Zuora is flying high On Thursday evening I attended a party hosted by Zuora, a leading SaaS billing company run by former SFDC colleagues of mine. I had a chance to catch up with my friends Tien Tzuo (CEO), Jeff Yoshimura (Head of Marketing & BD) and Richard Terry-Lloyd (VP Sales) at the event. Tien was…

I spent a few days last week in Las Vegas at Salesforce.com’s (SFDC) sales kickoff (SKO) for the upcoming year. SFDC’s fiscal calendar ends January 31st, so after a couple days to recharge the batteries, reorganize some management groups and redesign sales territories the sales force was gathered to learn about the new plans for FY2012 and to get…

The last six months have been transformative for Okta. We have been growing our employee base, acquiring new customers, and finished up a year where we delivered no less than 50 new releases of innovative functionality to our on-demand service. With this behind us, and a very bright future ahead – we, and our customers, are really ready to talk…

Okta CEO, Todd McKinnon, has a great set of cloud computing predictions for 2011 over on Forbes.com. The whole article, with explanations of each prediction, is definitely worth a read, but here is a quick preview: On-demand enterprise software revenue will break the $10B barrier The unemployment rate for top talent will remain at 0% 2011 is the…