Tag: SaaS

The Non-Techie’s Guide to Finding and Choosing Online Software

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It’s easy to become overwhelmed when trying to find, evaluate and select online software for your business. Why? Because:

  • There are a lot of software solutions available.
  • There’s a lot of distracting noise in the form of how- to articles and advice.
  • Most folks are not familiar with an effective process for business software selection .

It’s for these three reasons that I created this guide. Below, I’ve detailed the six-step process that I use to find, evaluate and select online software.

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Trending Products January 2017

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At Siftery we’re tracking over 10,000 software products, and hundreds of thousands of real companies that are using them. Below are the hot products that have added the most customers in the month leading up to January 2017.


1. Slack: Slack is a team communication application providing real-time messaging, archiving and search for modern teams. Some top companies using Slack include Siftery, Lever, Microsoft, IBM, OneLogin, GoDaddy, NewCo, and Treebo Hotels.

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How to Choose a Remote Worker Who Will Get the Job Done…the First Time

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Using Upwork, Guru, Outsourcely, Mechanical Turk and the like is a good way to find a remote worker for that projects you need to outsource. Without careful selection, though, your freelance hire could end up costing you much more than you planned. Here are some tips for getting a quality worker for your project.

Don’t Be Cheap

This is the biggest thing you need to remember when hiring freelancers through marketplaces: You get what you pay for. You may think you’re saving your company money by hiring someone with a low bid, but you never will.

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The Secret Connection Between Applicant Tracking Systems and Company Size

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GSD SaaS Insights From Siftery Data

Photo credit: Elizabeth M on Flickr

If you’re wondering which applicant tracking system (ATS) to use in your recruiting efforts, you might want to start by measuring the size of your company.

Based on the latest numbers from our friends over at Siftery, the customer base of the top three recruiting and ATS solutions fall into one of three categories: large, small and medium respectively.

iCIMS Carries the Big Boys

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Top 25 Products December 2016

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Get Shift Done: Management

At Siftery we’re tracking over 10,000 B2B software products, and hundreds of thousands of real companies that are using them. Below are the hot products that have added the most customers in the 30 days up to December 1, 2016.

The results are based only on data collected directly from product users and verified by company e-mail addresses. Data collected through vendors or programmatic web scraping are not included in the report unless they’re verified by company users.

The Top 25


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A Total Rethink of How Work Should Work

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Stephen DeWitt has had the kind of career that used to end with a gold watch, a comfortable retirement, and a slow decline into old age. He’s held senior positions at HP, Cisco, and Symantec, and took Cobalt Networks through one of the highest flying IPOs of the late 1990s. But instead of retiring, in early 2015 he took the position of CEO at Work Market, a fast-growing platform that is reimagining the relationship between labor and business.

Backed by legendary investor Fred Wilson, New York-based Work Market helps large enterprises create “labor clouds” that connect skilled workers with tasks companies need to complete. The platform integrates all types of workers — contractors, full-time employees, and vendors — and parameterizes tasks and workflows against any number of data points and business rules. In short, Work Market hopes to instrument a wholesale rethinking of how work gets done in our society — from a world of traditional corporate employment to a world where every skilled worker can act as an enterprise of one.

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Siftery Helps You Choose Online Solutions that Work With the Tools You Already Use

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Get Shift Done: Management

Adding a new online solution to the lineup your company already uses can be a challenge. After all, how do you know they’ll all work together? It used to take a time-consuming combination of research and trial and error to answer that question. That is, until Siftery came along.

Siftery is a unique beast. One-third web crawler, one-third data warehouse and one-third a set of useful tools, Siftery is really the only spot where you can easily discover which online solutions play well together. Here’s how:

Signing up with Siftery is free. Once you do so, you’ll be prompted to add the solutions you already use, your “stack,” to your company profile. Once you’ve done so, you can view the list via your profile:

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The Key Step in Successfully Leading Software Implementations

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So, you’ve taken on the lead system implementation role, and finally your retail business has made the decision to make the leap to a more robust cloud-based point of sale system. Everyone is excited about the move, but hold on, are you missing something —how sure are you that the new application will play nice in the sandbox with your other applications?

Sounds funny right? But it’s unlikely anyone will get a chuckle out of a scenario where employees are left dealing with incorrect data or orphaned records passed from one system to another…if passed along at all.

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Do you have room for SaaS in your budget?

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While many businesses adopt cloud-based services as a cost cutting measure, implementing SaaS solutions must fit both your budget and your goals.

The decision to take on new SaaS expenses typically fall into a few categories. Often, the solution is:

  • A replacement for an existing core service,
  • An additional service to meet a newly identified business requirement, or
  • For a solution that isn’t a business requirement, but simply a “nice to have” software.
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“Talk to You in 2021” — What to Do When There Isn’t Budget

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(Originally published on SaaStr — more on that here.)

“Thanks for the discussion, but we’ve have 4 years more on our contract with your competitor. Talk to you in 2021.”

— email forwarded from SaaStr community CEO this week

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