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NetSuite auction doubles IPO price

The NetSuite IPO has gone out tonight at a price of $26 per share, exactly double the lower limit quoted two weeks ago when the company first stated a price range for the offering. According to Reuters, this means the company has raised $160 million in its NYSE debut under...

Tags: IPO Price, NetSuite Inc., Achievement, Auction, NetSuite IPO, IPO, Financial Planning, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-12-19

NetSuite IPO to price next week

Bidding opened today in NetSuite's IPO auction process and will close a week Wednesday, after close of business on December 19. So the pre-Xmas IPO I foreshadowed last week is now definitely on. From the release that crossed the wires this morning: NetSuite Inc. today announced...

Tags: NetSuite Inc., IPO, Financial Planning, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-12-10

NetSuite lights fuse for Xmas IPO

NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson and other company execs have set off on an investor roadshow today to sell the merits of the company's forthcoming listing on the New York Stock Exchange. The timing of the tour suggests NetSuite hopes to offer its stock in the week before Christmas, perhaps intending...

Tags: NetSuite Inc., IPO, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Investment, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Sales, Finance, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-12-06

SuccessFactors IPO: blast-off or blow-off?

On a volatile day for the stock market, SuccessFactors had a successful IPO yesterday, pricing at the top of its forecast range and then rising a third to close at $13.25. Net of expenses, the offering has raised some $90.2 million. After paying off debt of about $21 million, the...

Tags: Talent, SuccessFactors Inc., Talent Management, IPO, Workforce Management, Financial Planning, Investment, Financial Services, Human Resources, Finance, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-11-21

Why no SaaS mutual fund?

To my knowledge, there is no mutual fund that specializes in investing in software-as-a-service stocks. Is that something of an oversight by the financial services industry? I'm sure there would be a ready supply of investors who'd like to invest in the industry in a way that spreads the risk...

Tags: Benefits, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Financial Services, Human Resources, Investment, IPO, Mutual Fund, Mutual Funds, Phil Wainewright, Retirement Plans, Software As A Service (SaaS), Software-as-a-service, Stock

Blog posts 2007-11-07

NetSuite edges closer to IPO

NetSuite released its second quarter financials in an amended S-1 registration statement this week, which also revealed that majority stockholder Larry Ellison is to relinquish his grip on the company to eliminate potential conflicts of interest while he remains CEO of software giant Oracle. Both moves help pave the way...

Tags: Partnership, NetSuite Inc., Business Structures, IPO, Financial Planning, Sales Strategy, Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Sales, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-11-02

SuccessFactors joins the rush for the (IPO) exit

It seems like you wait ages, and then along comes a whole line of SaaS vendor IPOs. The month began with NetSuite filing papers for its long-awaited IPO. A few days later came a filing by email marketing provider Constant Contact. Now on-demand performance management vendor SuccessFactors has filed its...

Tags: HRM, Companies, Venture capital

Blog posts 2007-07-24

NetSuite IPO: why now?

Having been hinted at, promised and much discussed for the past two to three years, what made NetSuite decide to pick this week to submit its IPO paperwork to the SEC?One delaying factor was outside of the company's control although it ought to have seen it coming. It had to...

Tags: CRM, ERP, NetSuite, Venture capital

Blog posts 2007-07-03

CEO switch signals change of pace at Intacct

On-demand ERP vendor Intacct has a new CEO at its helm today, its third in three years. I spoke to Mike Braun at 8am PST this morning, the very moment he started work in his new job at the vendor. by Phil Wainewright

Tags: NetSuite Inc., Callidus Software Inc., CEO, Intacct, Mike Braun, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, IPO, Recruitment & Selection, Emerging Technologies, Financial Services, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-02-01

Poll: Will Larry let go of NetSuite?

Ill be meeting Zach Nelson, CEO of NetSuite, on one of his visits to the UK tomorrow night, so I thought why not present him with the results of a special ZDNet readers poll? The topic: whether NetSuites planned IPO will ever go ahead. To cast your vote, see below....

Tags: Oracle Corp., NetSuite Inc., Venture capital, NetSuite, Oracle

Blog posts 2006-12-05

NetSuite preps ground for IPO

In interviews with the San Francisco Business Times, NetSuite executives have confirmed plans to prepare for an IPO later this year. "We're hoping to see something in the ballpark of what Salesforce got in terms of valuation," NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson told the paper — which would value his company...

Tags: NetSuite Inc., IPO

Blog posts 2006-03-29

Additional Resources

News to know: Facebook privacy, Windows 7, Kindle, Firefox 3.5

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Facebook's privacy settings: users get more control as wall gets torn down Ed Bott: Microsoft to offer Family Pack...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Mozilla Firefox, Andrew Nusca, Privacy, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Middleware, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-07-02

News to know: IBM-Sun; RIM, Web 2.0; CTIA; Facebook; iPhone

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: IBM-Sun deal nears finish line; Antitrust worries just starting Sam Diaz: RIM delivers solid Q4 on BlackBerry...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, Facebook, Research In Motion Ltd., Larry Dignan, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, CTIA, IBM Corp., Web 2.0, Open Source, Internet

Blog posts 2009-04-03

Gathering clouds brew up a storm

With all kinds of cloud announcements promised at Microsoft PDC next week, rival vendors Amazon and Rackspace have tried to steal a little early thunder with some announcements of their own. This is the beginning of a titanic struggle to establish the top cloud providers, and this week's announcements have...

Tags: Rackspace, Web Hosting, It Services, Servers, Internet, Hardware, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-10-25

Want cash? Buy SaaS

US software vendors that want to impress their stockholders with enhanced cash inflows should look to acquire SaaS vendors, according to Jérôme Fougerat, regional director of M&A specialist Corum Group, based in Seattle WA and Zurich, Switzerland. That's why SaaS companies have been holding their value better than other software...

Tags: Software, Acquisition, Software-as-a-service, Europe, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-06-10

European on-demand accounting vendors breaking the dam?

Since I am based in Europe and come from a finance background, I have a special interest in what happens in this part of the world. Over the last couple of years, I've been consistently told by 'experts' that saas/on-demand business applications and especially those that are finance related will...

Tags: On-demand, Vendor, QuickBooks Online, Smb/Sme, Financial Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Business systems for a faster, flatter world

One of the biggest problems facing enterprises today is that the world is communicating faster than their IT systems can keep up with. This is particularly obvious in businesses that operate multinationally. Their managers collaborate and communicate daily across timezones and geographies by phone, email and Web conference, but their...

Tags: On-demand, NetSuite Inc., OneWorld Option, Sales Strategy, Sales, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-04-17

Customization: curse or blessing?

At the high end of the platform-as-a-service spectrum, there's a cluster of vendors that offer fully templated but still highly customizable business applications, targeting small to mid-size businesses and departmental managers in larger organizations. Interestingly, in a poll of ZDNet readers I ran earlier in the month asking where you'd...

Tags: Application, Curse, Platform, NetSuite Inc., Zach Nelson, Customization, LongJump PaaS, Mike McGinn, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-03-24

News to know: Microsoft's Hyper-V and reorg; NetSuite; Cisco patches; MacBook Air diary

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Review: Microsoft’s Hyper-V puts VMWare and Linux on notice Dana Gardner: Merger target suspect Citrix assembles virtualization products as Delivery Center Dan Kusnetzky: Why is the concept of virtual machine software so sticky? Former Microsoft...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., NetSuite Inc., Apple MacBook, Patch Management, Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Social Networking, Linux, Virtualization, Open Source, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-02-15

News to know: Microsoft's new language; Yahoo saga; Apple; Vulnerability counts

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft declares its modeling love with a new language, ‘D’ Larry Dignan: Yahoo's conundrum: White knights are hard to find Dan Farber: Mitch Kapor: Microsoft+Yahoo, major integration challenge David Morgenstern: Will Microsoft support Windows on Macs?...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Mobile, Yahoo! Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Data Centers, Advertising & Promotion, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing

Blog posts 2008-02-06