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The pandemic has changed the way we all live and work. I speak to customers everyday that are living and working through the pandemic. When AvidXchange came to us with their newest quarterly report "From Crisis to Prosperity: Experts Predict Financial Industry's Path Forward", it resonated on many levels. The report features forward-looking articles that formulate a digital transformation case study from industry experts that focus on how to rebuild for growth in the months ahead. They feature articles from:

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The Extend Your Runway series was led and moderated by Marcus Wagner. Marcus is the founder and CEO of AcctTwo, a services and technology company delivering the Future of Finance and Accounting to nearly 1,000 organizations throughout the country.

There is a reason SaaS has become the dominant approach to business applications: It makes more sense for both the user and the provider. Users get better tools at a lower cost while providers can count on a steady stream of revenue and closer client relations.

The only downside of running a dynamic SaaS company is that performance is hard to track and difficult to define. Success and failure are driven by multiple variables, and it’s easy to mistake positives for negatives and vice versa.

As a provider of cloud-based SaaS ERP solutions as well as Business-Process-as-a-Service solutions on the Intacct cloud platform, it always interests us to learn more about trends in cloud adoption among companies and nonprofits of all sizes. So it was especially interesting when one of our customers, Sailpoint, published some results of a survey of 100 of their customers at the Gartner IAM Summit about their plans for cloud adoption.

The fourth annual Software CFO/CEO Outlook Report is out for 2015. From a high level overview of industry trends to drilled-down views of specific concerns and tactics sliced by company size, the study by Sand Hill Group's CEO M.R. Rangaswami is an invaluable tool for any company in the software and technology industry. The report describes two major themes in the survey data:

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The results are in - it's time to replace spreadsheets with software designed for and devoted to finance activities.

Scouring the web, there's a lot of information out there about the new FASB/IASB Revenue Recognition Standards, also known as Topic ASC 606, published in May of last year. This new standard will have great impact on software, and particularly Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), companies' accounting practices and business processes.

Transformation Required

The software industry is in an era of explosive growth. This 2014 study of CEO / CFOs’ outlook from the SandHill Group reveals that 29 percent say their planned revenue growth over the next 12 months is 50 percent or higher; and within that group, 17 percent believe their revenue growth will increase by 100 percent or more. One CEO commented that his company has grown “twice as much” every year for the past three years.

Managing the growth of a software business, whether selling traditional on-premise software or SaaS, is far more likely to be successful when management is metrics-driven and has good visibility into all the key performance indicators described in this paper.