Cloud penetration in enterprise performance management software is only around 5%
Dave Kellogg · 778: SaaS: With $80M Raised, He Left Salesforce to Bring Finance Departments to The Cloud · Sep 10, 2017 · at 19:37
Host Analytics CEO Dave Kellogg discusses the enterprise performance management market and the pace of cloud adoption.
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“If you look at the cloud penetration of this market, it's around five percent.”
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