News/Press Release
ClearMomentum, Inc., a developer of CPM, Corporate Performance Management software and services announced record growth in the month of December for the fourth month in a row. Highlights of major customers adopting the company’s flagship product include 5LINX, Enterprises, Inc., Liberty Partners and Lone Star New Markets…”
Product Update Announcement
The most recent release provides users with the ability to configure reports with unlimited flexibility and is designed to provide deep insight into the most complex organizational structures. New drag and drop report writing…
Academics, investors and business professionals throughout the world agree that SaaS inherently provides a host of economic benefits to the customer. However, recent studies show that the vast majority of finance professionals will use a valuation technique that may fail to capture those same benefits1. While SaaS providers have enjoyed much success in recent years, this should be a concern for those that compete against traditional license based models for the true value of the SaaS application may go unrecognized.
News/Press Release
The addition of Rustic Canyon Partners marks the third California capital provider implementation in the past 60 days.
“ClearMomentum, Inc., a developer of CPM, Corporate Performance Management software and services announced a new key customer implementation for Rustic Canyon Partners located in Santa Monica, California. The Addition of Rustic Canyon Partners as a customer is significant in…”
A significant amount of literature favors the notion that a real-options approach to capital budgeting is superior to the conventional discounted cash flow technique when uncertainty is present in the investment opportunity. Unlike traditional licensed-based software, SaaS inherently provides the buyer with the flexibility to change the course of the investment as uncertainty related to the product or service is resolved. In this respect, SaaS changes the game with regard to the economic benefits provided by the product or service. The SaaS model builds management flexibility into the investment decision and that same flexibility may be valuable when uncertainty is present. With that said, the question at hand is whether or not conventional valuation techniques such as DCF can be counted on to make accurate SaaS capital budgeting decisions. And if such methods cannot be counted on, do OPM techniques such as binomial lattices or modified Black Scholes models provide a more accurate picture of their value? The final and perhaps more important question seeks to understand which of the two methods is most likely to be used by finance professionals when making SaaS capital budgeting decisions. This paper will show that a considerable gap exists between those that intend to use conventional DCF models versus more sophisticated OPM techniques when making capital investment decisions that involve SaaS. This gap should be a concern for those that buy or sell products and services delivered via SaaS for the value of flexibility may go unrecognized.
Product Update Announcement
ClearFinancials™ 4.0 is the emerging CPM best practice for portfolio company performance data management. This cost-effective SaaS application provides on-demand access to vital and dynamic portfolio company performance data, and delivers an unmatched user experience to you and your organization.
