{"id":1577,"date":"2012-05-15T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2278011"},"modified":"2012-05-15T17:42:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T17:42:00","slug":"cloud-computing-qualtrics-raises-70-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-computing-qualtrics-raises-70-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: Qualtrics Raises $70 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Called \u201cthe biggest software company you haven\u2019t heard of yet\u201d by one of its shiny new backers, 10-year-old Qualtrics has gotten $70 million from Accel Partners and Sequoia Capital in the VCs\u2019 largest joint investment ever. It\u2019s also the company\u2019s first outside investment.<br \/>\nReportedly profitable since it started, it\u2019s supposed to use the money to expand its SaaS products beyond market research and accelerate its global growth, expecting to hire another 250 employees to add to the existing 200 in the next year.<br \/>\nQualtrics is used for online data collection and analysis claiming to make it \u201ceasy for anyone in a company to conduct PhD-level research.\u201d It figures outsourced research and data collection is too expensive \u2013 it\u2019s shooting at data generated from customers, sales reps, channel partners and employees \u2013 and competitive tools are either too basic or too complicated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2278011\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Called \u201cthe biggest software company you haven\u2019t heard of yet\u201d by one of its shiny new backers, 10-year-old Qualtrics has gotten $70 million from Accel Partners and Sequoia Capital in the VCs\u2019 largest joint investment ever. It\u2019s also the comp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}