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MIT CFO Summit 2008

NEWS FROM THE OPERATING FRONT


 04.2009  Market Caps Not Necessarily Reflecting Performance     
     Insights from guest author, Christine Cox,  principal of Interim CFO Services.

03.2009  Comparing Operating Ratios for 3 Different Revenue Groups

     We  analyze ratios of a universe of software companies that fall into 3 different sized categories.

12.2008  Cash & Liquidity Ratios
     We review cash and liquidity ratios for a group of 10 SaaS companies.

12.2008  MIT CFO Summit 2008
     Some insights we garnered from the 2008 MIT CFO Summit.

11.2008  H12008 R&D Benchmarks for SaaS Vendors
     We take a look at H1 2008 R&D expenses for 10 SaaS companies.

10.2008  H12008 S&M Expense Trends
     This month we examined H108 S&M expenses for 10 publicly traded SaaS vendors

08.2008  A Closer Look at Sales Incentive Plans
     We look at sales compensation structure for software companies.

06.2008  A Closer Look at G&A
     We examine G&A operating metrics for 9 leading publicly traded SaaS vendors.

05.2008  S&M Key Driver of Growth for SaaS companies
     Looking at S&M expenses for a core group of publicly traded SaaS vendors, there appears to be a strong correlation between
     S&M spending and revenue growth.

04.2008 Enhancing Growth & Profitability for SaaS Companies
     Lauren Kelley, CO of OPEXEngine and Todd Garder, CEO os SaaS Capital draw on their combined industry expertise.  Listen to
     the recording of their presentation.

04.2008  Strategic Operating Benchmarks for SaaS Companies 
     An overview of SaaS market with statistics from our 2007 Operating Metrics Survey.

04.2008  Looking Back on 2007:  It Was a Good Year for SaaS
     2007 was an interesting year for the technology market.

12.2007  G&A Expense Ratios
     OPEXEngine takes a closer look at G&A expenses.

11.2007  Sales & Marketing Metrics
     OPEXEngine reviewed S&M spending for a sample of small-sized publicly traded software companies.

06.2007  Q107 Operating Metrics for Mid-sized Publicly Traded SaaS Companies
     Moving to a SaaS business model has important ramifications on revenue, expenses and other operational metrics.

09.2007 R&D Metrics
     OPEXEngine focused this analysis on R&D metrics for mid-sized, publicly traded software companies.

08.2007  2006 Employee Productivity
     We compiled 2006 employee productivity and expense data for mid-sized, publicly traded SaaS companies.

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