Articles about SAAS

Smartsheet cuts jobs shortly after departure of longtime CEO

Smartsheet has cut more than 120 jobs amid a leadership transition and its $8.4B private equity takeover, as the Bellevue-based software company accelerates its push into artificial intelligence. Read More

Box tightens Microsoft ties with new Copilot integration, builds out its own suite of AI agents

Box is deepening its connection to Microsoft’s productivity platform through a new AI agent that works with Microsoft 365 Copilot,… Read More

Notable tech leaders back Magnify as software startup emerges with $6M in funding

New funding: Magnify, an enterprise software startup which will have operations in Seattle and Bend, Ore., has come out of… Read More

Data analytics startup NavigatorCRE raises $17.2M for tech that aids commercial real estate industry

Seattle-based NavigatorCRE, makers of a data analytics platform that serves the commercial real estate industry, has raised $17.2 million in… Read More

B.C. startup Thoughtexchange raises $10M as use of crowdsourcing platform soars during pandemic

Thoughtexchange, the British Columbia-based startup whose platform helps leaders better communicate with employees, has raised another $10 million as the… Read More

Navigating Cancer raises $26M, aims to change the patient experience for oncology care

Navigating Cancer, a Seattle startup that makes software to help providers and patients manage cancer treatment, landed $26 million in… Read More

Madrona makes another healthcare bet, leads $5M round in clinical software startup Ovation.io

Ovation.io, which makes cloud-based software for medical testing labs, has raised a $5 million round led by Seattle-based Madrona Venture… Read More

Nintex acquires business bot company EnableSoft, filling a key gap in its workflow automation platform

Bellevue, Wash.-based workflow automation company Nintex has acquired EnableSoft, a Robotic Process Automation company that offers bots for handling a business’s… Read More

Automation company Nintex partners with Adobe to challenge DocuSign in electronic signatures

Nintex, the Bellevue, Wash.-based workflow automation company, announced this morning that it is getting into the electronic signature business. In… Read More

Box CEO Aaron Levie on cloud consolidation, the future of AI, and Seattle vs. San Francisco

Box CEO Aaron Levie has seen a lot of change in enterprise technology since he co-founded Box on Mercer Island… Read More

Vista Equity Partners to pay $1.9 billion in private-equity deal for Apptio

Apptio’s run as a public company is coming to an end after just over two years. Private equity firm Vista… Read More

SAP snaps up Qualtrics for $8B days before its expected IPO, will keep Seattle office

After months of discussions between the two companies, SAP announced Sunday afternoon that it has agreed to acquire user experience… Read More

Dropbox Extensions another sign that walled gardens won’t fly in enterprise SaaS

Dropbox plans to unveil several new ties between popular document formats and enterprise-software applications later on Tuesday, part of an… Read More

SaaS at scale: Here’s how five cloud tech experts are building enterprise software empires

Until very recently, very few people actually liked the enterprise software they were forced to use at work, from the… Read More

How to deal with SaaS slackers: CIOs share lessons from unreliable Software as a Service vendors

Most enterprise software is delivered as a service these days because paying an expert to manage a complex application just… Read More

Textio sues former customer over optimized job descriptions allegedly ‘repurposed and sold to its own customers’

EDITOR’S NOTE: This lawsuit was dismissed on Oct. 26, 2018. Textio alleges in a new lawsuit that a former customer… Read More

Acumatica lands $25M, plans bigger challenge to SAP, Oracle, other cloud business software rivals

Acumatica has raised $25 million in a new funding round led by the Accel-KKR private equity firm. With the funding,… Read More

Ex-Microsoft employees reunite, raise $2.75M for Fullcast.io to cover back-end work so sales reps can sell more

The co-founders of Fullcast.io knew they wanted to create something together, but they had to wait until the timing was… Read More

Software automation platform Azuqua lands Adobe, Zendesk and others for new partner program

Say you’re a software company needing to roll out a bunch of new features — and fast. One big customer… Read More

Project management company Viewpath raises $2.3M, names new CEO in push to expand business

Seattle-based project management technology company Viewpath announced $2.3 million in seed funding Tuesday morning and named a new CEO, longtime… Read More

Researchers say new ‘Efail’ security risk undermines encrypted e-mail

Hackers have a better chance of getting into encrypted email than previously thought, according to a new paper released Monday… Read More

At top of WorkFlowy founder’s to-do list: Keeping his app’s cult-like following happy

In January, when Jesse Patel announced plans to overhaul WorkFlowy, his quirky-but-powerful outline app, he appealed for mercy. “If you… Read More

Hate working in a web browser? How a new breed of software is bringing cloud-based apps into a single interface

In 1983, Microsoft developers Richard Brodie and Charles Simonyi wrote a UNIX program that would eventually become Microsoft Word. It… Read More

ServiceNow snaps up VendorHawk to help its customers manage their SaaS spending

ServiceNow has acquired Seattle’s VendorHawk, a recent TechStars Seattle graduate, for an undisclosed amount in order to add cloud software… Read More

Smartsheet looks to raise up to $120M through its upcoming IPO, new filing shows

Smartsheet plans to raise as much as $120 million through its upcoming initial public offering, new documents filed with the… Read More

Box admins now have improved tools for managing user activity and governance policies

Box users generate a lot of data that administrators might find very interesting, and the latest edition of the Box… Read More

Wall Street warms to enterprise software: Could this bode well for Smartsheet, DocuSign and others?

The way Steve Singh sees it, big changes are coming to the enterprise software world. “There will be a next… Read More

Google’s new ‘AMP for Email’ project expands Accelerated Mobile Pages to Gmail

Google is bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) to Gmail, making it possible to update a meeting invitation, get updated flight information… Read More

Enterprise cloud company Acumatica expands technology into construction industry

Enterprise cloud software provider Acumatica unveiled a new suite of services Monday designed to help construction companies see and update… Read More