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Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products have been a part of everyday life at the workplace. Whether you use Email services or data storage, you rely on the cloud solutions for a variety of work. Every year new startups try their hands in providing SaaS services with innovative ideas and their implementation. As the enterprise products are dominating in the market, most of the startups fail to sustain for long, but some of them emerge promisingly.
Here we bring together 10 best SaaS startups till yet in 2016. Their tools cover a range of services from collaboration to recruitment to sales. Businesses should know what new features are offered and how these trends can help them to grow.
1)Intercom
Intercom provides solutions for communication with customers, team, and website visitors in a single suite. The tool paves the way to grow your business without the need of several phases such as marketing automation, database, and helpdesk. The California-based startup aims to provide a platform for communicating personally with the customer, and the services include support, marketing, and sales. The stand out feature of the product is in-app messaging.
2)Namely
Namely is a tool for human resource management. Regardless of your business size, the tool provides excellent HR solutions including payroll, benefits, and talent management. The startup aims to deliver a complete suite for engaging employees, simplifying HR, and empower managers. The product is as easy to use as social media and is capable of complex demands.
3)Segment
Segment offers data analytics for the various tasks. With the tool, you can collect data and send it to the data warehouses for analysis. The tool helps businesses to gain a competitive advantage by using a single API for big data. The startup replaces the needs of outsourcing and lets you make decisions.
4)Datadog
Datadog is designed for the developers and allows them to monitor activities across the cloud applications. The tool integrates with popular cloud services and provides unified monitoring solutions. With this startup, you can work in collaboration on your cloud infrastructure and use dashboard and API facilities to manage various apps.
5)Confluent
Confluent is a data streaming platform dedicated to the businesses. Whether you need big data or small, this commercial messaging system is ready to serve in real time. The tool is built around open source project called Apache Kafka, which also is a leading platform for data streaming. The startup seems very powerful and offers features for data integration.
6)Tamr
Tamr provides a platform to organize data for enterprise level. The tool boasts great usability with data analytics and cleaning features. When you deal with big data, you find yourself in an uneasy situation such as extracting useful data and cleaning others. The startup challenges to other data analytics and curation startups.
7)Forter
Forter is an E-commerce company platform that eliminates frauds during online transactions. The tool incorporates triple layered technology that allows automating decisions for approval or denial in real time. The startup tracks customers behavior on the website and geo-location and facilitates all the details from a decision dashboard.
8)Samsara
Samsara provides a sensor solution that connects a variety of devices with each other. The easy-to-deploy sensors cover a broad range of monitoring from vehicle tracking to industrial sensing. The device incorporates cloud hosted infrastructure and has built-in cellular connectivity. It joins the IoT devices together and facilitates real-time asset monitoring. The startup facilitates mobile apps as well.
9)Showpad
Showpad is a content marketing solution provider for businesses and organizations. The tool has powerful integrations with other tools such as Salesforce and Gmail. It provides insightful metrics and is accessible through mobile devices. The organizations need the tool for effective sales and marketing and for generating more revenue. The startup offers various features such as content management and engagement, interactive and personalized content, feedback collection, and analytics.
10)Everstring
Everstring is a business tool for finding sales leads through big data. The tool aims to expand the reach to the right audience with relevant messages. It is based on predictive marketing techniques that include data curation, segment creation and expansion, and personalized messages with insights. The stand out feature is insightful analytics. The startup increases sales efficiency and performance of an organization in B2B selling.
All the startups offer some innovative technologies associated with their products. The devices and tools are based on the hardware, software, and cloud. Intercom is featured with rich options for marketing automation, while Showpad focuses on content marketing. Both the tools are distinct, however, they exhibit high usability in todays fast market. Namely is a unique human resources management tool and scalable for small business and enterprises. With the tool, you can focus more on the business rather than the HR concerns. Segment, Everstring, and Tamr are the honed data analytics tools. Segment is best for data collection; Tamr is best for making a clean-up while organizing big data, whereas Everstring is the finest tool for marketing and sales. Datadog provides monitoring solutions across various cloud services and applications. The tool is competitive and easy-to-use and offers unique functionalities. Confluent is the best business tool for data streaming. The tool sets a new benchmark in processing the data for business use. Forter is a fraud protection tool that helps retailers to make purchases securely. The tool helps to make E-commerce a safe place. Samsara is the most innovative product that has ever land in the market of Internet of things. The product involves hardware devices and cloud-based software commonly used for sensing and monitoring.
The SaaS products bring new ideas along with their story. Some products get built around the existing products, some use the integration, while others join them together. The products are disrupting the existing technologies and trends used by the businesses. The startups minimize your work in the deployment, installing, or learning of the product. They enable you to gain exposure to the innovation. Only handful of SaaS startups makes it sustain and remain competitive in the market. Collectively, every business should know the best products in this year so that they can get the right direction of the business mainstream.
