Monthly Archives: October 2013
How To Tell If You’re In A Cloud-Friendly Industry
Editor’s note: Gordon Ritter is a founder and general partner at Emergence Capital, a leading venture capital firm focused on cloud companies. He was an early investor in Salesforce.com and Veeva Systems, and he is currently chairman of Veeva. Follow him on Twitter @gordonritter.
The benefits of an industry cloud strategy are clear. But are there certain industries that are more cloud friendly? To answer this question, we analyzed industries using a framework that ranks each one based on eight factors that speed up cloud adoption and two factors that slow things down.
The Top Cloud-Friendly Industries
Two industries stand out as the most cloud-friendly: healthcare and education. Healthcare has the most traction, with focused and fast-growing cloud companies in many facets of this massive and concentrated industry. In addition to Veeva, companies such as Doximity, CareCloud and PracticeFusion are getting traction, and Athena Health has…
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You Have To Watch This Epic Clip Of Russell Brand Shutting Down A News Anchor
Russell Brand is at it again. These 10 minutes of television are some of the only ones worth watching. [tc-mark]
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