Hear how Kelly Battles, CFO of Host Analytics, works with her finance team to track key financial and operating metrics data to drive performance and keep the company on track to deliver growth in 2011. In addition, Lauren Kelley, CEO of OPEXEngine will present key software industry benchmarks from OPEXEngine’s comprehensive financial and operating benchmarking report, developed in partnership with the SIIA. Join us for this informative webinar to learn more about how the benefits of metrics-driven, fact based decision making can help you drive better performance and efficiency within your own organization.
Presenters:
Lauren Kelley, CEO & Founder, OPEXEngine
Kelly Battles, CFO, Host Analytics
About the presenters:
Lauren Kelley is CEO and founder of OPEXEngine, the leading publisher of software financial and operating benchmarks. Ms. Kelley brings 25 years of successful experience in tech company management to OPEXEngine, as well as 6 years as an international economist at the US Department of Commerce’s Office of Computers early in her career, after entering Federal service through the prestigious Presidential Management Intern program. Prior to building OPEXEngine, she worked 2 years as an executive-in-residence at Grand Banks Capital, a venture fund focused on East Coast technology companies, evaluating potential investments. She has worked and lived extensively in Europe. She was previously Senior VP of WW Sales at ATG, including establishing field operations throughout Europe and Asia/Pacific, and was a General Manager for approximately 20 countries at Borland out of Paris in the early ’90s. Ms. Kelley also helped build Compaq’s Central and East European operations, based in Munich. Ms. Kelley is currently based in London, where she lives with her husband and two children.
Kelly Bodnar Battles is the CFO of Host Analytics, inc., the only provider of a CPM (Corporate Performance Management) suite of products delivered via software as a service.
Prior to Host Analytics, Kelly was VP, Finance at IronPort Systems where she was the first finance hire and was responsible for building and leading the finance, accounting, administrative and various operational functions during her six years there. During her tenure at IronPort, the company grew from $2M to $250M in annual bookings and was sold to Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO).
Before IronPort, Kelly was a Director in HP’s Strategy and Corporate Development group, a Strategy Consultant with McKinsey and Company, and a Corporate Finance Associate at J.P. Morgan. Kelly graduated with a B.S.E. from Princeton and M.B.A. from Harvard, both with honors. Kelly lives in the Bay Area with her husband, and their 2 children, labrador retriever and rescue cat.
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SIIA & OPEXEngine: Let the Data Set You Free!
1. Let the Data Set You Free! Presenters: Lauren Kelley, CEO & Founder, OPEXEngine Kelly Battles, CFO, Host Analytics
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27. How SaaS Makes a Difference Performance Right features Driven by vendor, Technology agnostic Customization Ease Of Us e Low initial costs Low ongoing costs Fast, free access to latest functionality/upgrade Driven by vendor, enhanced by cloud Real time customer monitoring enables continual and immediate customer support by vendor Real time, integrated external content - Benchmarks, Drivers Best people on the right problems Integration of efforts and avoid silos Enabled by cloud delivery
28. Metrics-driven CPM at Host Analytics The ecosystem approach Corporate Metrics Weekly Monthly Quarterly Functional Metrics vs. Budget vs. Benchmarks Bookings, MRR Pipeline Customer Count Cash, CF, AR, AP Headcount Trends/Time Responses Opportunities Website hits Customer Portal Activity Support tickets Customer usage Summary GAAP Financials Customer Churn DSO Detailed GAAP Financials NPS Partner Count Time to Activate Employee Retention Win/Loss Rates Product Mix Uptime PM Utilization Ticket resolution time Bug count What are the key drivers for your business? What do your stakeholders care about? How frequently is helpful, practical? What is the right context? Dashboards -> Ad Hoc Reports -> Financial Reports -> Report Books What is the right format?
IT’S A SUBSCRIPTION BUSINESS: SOME MIGHT SAY THE MATURATION OF SOFTWARE, OR THE COMMODITIZATION OF SOFTWARE. THE VALUE IN THE BUSINESS IS IN GETTING THE COST PER SUBSCRIBER WAY BELOW THE REVENUE PER SUBSCRIBER AND A PATH TO INCREASE THE REVENUE PER CUSTOMER
We benchmark contracted monthly revenues for our client companies at various revenue sizes, as well as customer acquisition costs, cash from operations, new customer growth rates, plus the cost both to acquire a new customer, and the cost to maintain each customer, both metrics which are required to track profitability of how you are adding customers. One of the metrics which is well discussed in SaaS circles is the “Magic Number”described by Josh James, CEO of Omniture at an industry summit to explain how Ominiture tracked their customer profitability and whether or not to add gas in Sales & Marketing, or not. Basically, you take a quarter’s incremental revenue growth, multiple by 4 to annualize, then divide by last quarter’s S&M marketing spend. According to James, anytime the magic number is .75 then you should spend more and put gas on your sales and marketing to bring in more customers. If your magic number is 0.5 or less, then there is something wrong with your model. One assumption in this model is that you have very low Churn rates, Omniture shoots for 95% renewals or better. The industry average is about 15% churn or less. We look at both customer renewal rates by number of customers renewing and by amount of dollars renewed. For example, if you had 100 customers up for renewal for contracts totalling $10M, and all 100 customers renew, you have a 100% renewal rate, but they renewed contracts now totalling only $8M, you have an 80% renewal rate by dollar value (or conversely, they renewed for a total value of $12M, yo u have a renewal rate of 120%.
This is the bridge … the cloud is the foundation. No free lunch … we don’t just pluck it out of the cloud… it is the very definition of the phrase necessary but not sufficient There are three kinds of product characteristics CFOs/Finance teams need and great companies must deliver on all three: (1) benefits companies almost always get by being in the cloud, (2) benefits coming from good company decisions which are easier if the product is in the cloud, and (3) benefits coming from good company decisions based on insight into customer needs and ability to deliver on those insights The cloud is not the panacea but it’s certainly a better way than on premise Leveraging your wonderful communities