{"id":3748,"date":"2012-09-21T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2371798"},"modified":"2012-09-21T13:53:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T13:53:00","slug":"zuora-drags-subscription-economy-out-of-the-15th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/zuora-drags-subscription-economy-out-of-the-15th-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuora Drags Subscription Economy Out of the 15th Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a logical extension of its cloud-pleasing subscription billing system, Zuora, the start-up near Oracle where Marc Benioff has parked some of his money, is going after the next big thing, which for it is the finance department, keeper of the corporate treasury.<br \/>\nThis week it launched Z-Finance, trumpeted as the world\u2019s first finance application built for the subscription economy.<br \/>\nAccording to Zuora CEO Tien Tzuo, the double-entry bookkeeping, invented by Venetian merchants in the 15th century, memorialized in the Ur-textbook written by the Franciscan friar Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli in 1495 and, as a result, practiced by every modern finance department today, doesn\u2019t accommodate subscriptions.<br \/>\nSo Zuora has invented a framework to capture the dynamic, ongoing revenue that\u2019s the foundation of the subscription business model.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2371798\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a logical extension of its cloud-pleasing subscription billing system, Zuora, the start-up near Oracle where Marc Benioff has parked some of his money, is going after the next big thing, which for it is the finance department, keeper of the corporat&#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-3748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748","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=3748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}