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Subscription billing Trends 2024 - What to Expect

In 2024, B2B subscription billing is changing quickly because of technology and market changes. This evolution is pivotal in streamlining financial transactions, enhancing customer relationships, and improving operational efficiency. In this blog,...

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Exploring the Role of Data Mediation in Modern Billing Automation

The enterprise billing landscape is continuously evolving, with businesses relentlessly searching for tools and techniques that ensure precision,...

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Adopting Usage-Based Pricing and Billing

The popularity of usage-based pricing is increasing steadily. The rise of cloud services and SaaS are the fields where the change has been radical....

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Subscription management Glossary

Okay, let’s take a deep breath and dive into the world of the vocabulary of subscription management business. As we know, all businesses and...

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4 Things to Consider When Integrating ERP and Subscription Management

Reliable investments in optimal business software are essential for the growth of any company. As a business expands, the stakes in certain processes...

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Unleashing the Power of Billing Software

In the fast-paced and highly competitive digital economy, companies providing versatile services face unique challenges when managing the billing...

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Automating the Contract-to-Cash Process Step by Step

They say that a beloved child has many names. In this case, the term “contract-to-cash” is often known as order-to-cash or quote-to-cash, depending...

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Subscription Management Gets Easier with RevOps

Revenue Operations is an operating model for customer-centric companies. RevOps entails aligning previously siloed business functions to optimize...

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What to look for when finding a billing automation system

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Time to consider a Billing Automation Solution for More Agile Billing

You discovered it's time to update your billing system - a common issue that many businesses face -as the current system is longer meeting your...

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5 Symptoms Indicating You Need a New Agile Billing System

Does your billing system keep up with the fast-paced changes in business and technology? Are you able to take advantage of new opportunities you have...

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Billing Data Is Managed Service Providers' Hidden Power

A typical value proposition of a managed service provider is to help customers to operate more efficiently by taking care of their IT needs. This...

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Align Your B2B Subscription Pricing Models to Your Pricing Strategy

When deciding on a pricing model, there are many aspects to consider. It all starts with business targets, market analysis, and picking up a pricing...

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5 Tips to Manage B2B SaaS Subscriptions Across the Customer Lifecycle

Subscriptions have really taken the software business landscape. And while certain aspects of software business have become more efficient, such as...

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Four Capabilities You Need in a B2B Subscription Management Software

What capabilities should you look for in B2B subscription management software? In this blog post, we’ll be taking a look at four essential...

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Scalable Billing for Managed Service Providers – Get a Playbook

Managed Service Providers need a scalable, reliable, transparent, and flexible pricing and billing solution due to the complexity of their customer...

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Add Service billing automation to your ERP

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Complete Your ERP System With Good Sign Billing Automation

With years of experience with different ERP systems, I still find that they are excellent for many tasks but not for subscriptions and recurring...

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How to manage Revenue Recognition in Subscription Businesses

Without proper tools, revenue recognition is time-consuming and error-prone, especially for SaaS businesses, due to the nature of subscription-based...

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The Three Key Themes for XaaS Businesses in 2023

Businesses of continuous services (XaaS - anything as a service) in 2023 will focus on the growing trend towards introducing new services that...

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Boost Digital Transformation With Pricing and Billing Capabilities 

In today's world, modern businesses are understanding the importance of digital transformation to meet customer needs and stay competitive. Customers...

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Cfo's Guide to Billing Automation

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CFO's Guide to Billing Automation - 3 Steps to Get Started

We have presented the benefits of billing automation many times in our blogs, and we hope that we have given some insight into the multiple practical...

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What is a Lovable Invoice and Why Does it Matter

We all know that happy customers are the lifeblood of any business. But do you know how to really make them smile? With lovable invoices! That's...

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Billing data used to drive customer satisfaction

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How to Use Billing Data to Drive Customer Satisfaction

You may be looking for ways to simplify your billing process and increase recurring revenue. But have you considered that the billing dataitself is...

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ERP System Can not Handle Recurring Revenue Business Models

For businesses that are looking to transform or improve their service pricing and billing, an ERP system may not be enough to handle the complexity...

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Why Finance and Billing should be included in the Revops Strategy

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RevOps - Why Finance and Billing Should be Included

RevOps, or Revenue Operations, is a relatively new concept in the world of business operations. It involves aligning various business functions in...

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Benefits of Experimenting With Different Pricing Models

Finding the right pricing model is essential for B2B service businesses to grow and achieve desired profits. Experimenting with different pricing...

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Automated billing systems are an essential tool for any business looking to streamline its financial operations and capitalize on lost opportunity costs from manual invoice processing.

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Survive High Inflation Rates by Utilizing Billing Automation

Have you ever considered the opportunity cost of an inefficient billing process? Whether it’s from lost revenue due to incorrect invoices or disputed...

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Scaling Business With Automated Billing

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How to Streamline Your Billing System for Scalability

As your business grows, scalability can be essential to success. But it's not only about scaling up operations and adapting to increasing volumes –...

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The billing trends for 2023

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The Billing Trends for 2023 That all Businesses Need to Know About

It's no secret that the way businesses invoice for services has changed dramatically in recent years. With new technologies and the ever-growing...

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Billing Automation

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Billing Automation Myths Debunked - Start Small, Expand Later

As the Chief Finance or Operating Officer of a service organization, you're likely always looking for ways to improve efficiency, cut costs and...

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Subscription Management Platform Makes Recurring Revenues Possible

Forbes recently released an article about the Relationship Between Revenue Operations And Recurring Revenues. The article emphasized the importance...

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Optimizing Billing to Support SaaS Growth

Billing is a stumbling block for many SaaS-based software companies. Those who started as start-ups have often managed with some general invoicing...

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Why a Subscription Management Tool Is a Must in the Saas Business

In the SaaS business, it is essential to integrate subscriptions and customer contracts into invoices to make billing detailed and accurate. A...

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Billing Transparency Saves Everybody Time

Billing should be a natural and positive event in business. A financial “thank you” after a job well done. But too often, the invoice or the billing...

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What RevOps Means for Your Billing Solution

RevOps is mostly referred to as the operational activities of Sales, Marketing, and Support bundled together to better serve the client’s needs...

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Subscription Business Is Here to Stay - Jump on Board

According to UBS*, the subscription market is estimated to grow by 18% year over year to 1,5 trillion USD by 2025. Clearly, the subscription business...

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Billing Is Not Just Volume or Complexity - It Is Agility

Recently MGI Research published a report which excellently maps the billing landscape. Go ahead and request this report on their website. We highly...

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Change Your Business Model To Pay-Per-Use With These 3 Steps

There are many reasons for both clients and companies to prefer subscription or pay-per-use pricing. Clients love the full service, the monthly fees...

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The Future of Billing Is Customer-Centric

Billing takes the center stage in new business models. It becomes clear that the billing experience is essential to a long and profitable customer...

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Drive Your SaaS Business by Metrics

There is no business like a SaaS business. With the rise of SaaS business came new metrics and new rules to assess, monitor, and steer SaaS business...

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Saas Business Booming But Highly Competitive

There has never been a more exciting time to be in the SaaS business than now. As recent research shows, 2021 has proven to be another solid growth...

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Billing is Key to Your SaaS Business Growth

When dreaming of SaaS growth, you might not think of your billing system immediately. In the search for growth, your marketing and customer success...

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Put your digital contracts to work in billing

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Putting Your Digital Contracts to Work in Billing

Digital contract management has been around for a while now, and we have seen great and less great implementations. But there is a world beyond just...

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Managing and Steering Your B2B SaaS Contracts Over the Life Cycle

The subscription economy has changed our business life forever. It has never been easier to onboard customers, but that comes at the price of having...

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If Your SaaS Business Is Leaking Revenue, Here Is How to Stop It

You might not be aware, but according to EY* it is estimated that businesses leak about 1-5% of their EBITDA in revenue. Just like with any leak, it...

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Show Your Clients Some Love Via Your Invoice

We thought it would be the right time to address the topic of lovable invoices. In this blog, we explain that lovable invoices are not about...

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CFO's View on Billing

The CFO role has never been as versatile as it is today In today’s business challenges, the CFO's role is vital to a steady course in windy...

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Increase Customer Satisfaction Using Your Billing Data

Billing is typically a straightforward process that most companies have optimized in terms of efficiency. The efficiency is often measured by looking...

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When Billing Hurts Your Business

Billing Might Hurt Your Business No, we are not talking about receiving an invoice from a supplier. That is what we would call self-inflicted pain....

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What Makes Billing Crucial in SaaS

Scaling A SaaS Business Is A Different Ballgame SaaS is hot, and while the subscription economy is nowadays mainstream, many client companies...

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Here Are the Billing Trends to Watch For in 2022

Our year at Good Sign has been extremely exciting. Billing as an industry is gearing up and we have seen an enormous push in interest in our field of...

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Trends In Billing Technology - Adapting Customer Centricity

The Age of Customer Centricity The customer is always right, but there has never been a time when the customer had so many options to be right in...

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Embracing Industry 4.0 in Billing

The Accelerated Pace Of IoT Adaption As a central part of Industry 4.0, digitalization has been supercharged with the usage of IoT. Studies show that...

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What 2021 Has Taught Us About Billing

As we near the end of 2021, we have to say most companies are back in full swing and the economy is on the rise again. We have seen some profound...

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Agile Billing Enables Fast To Market

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How Billing Can Be A Showstopper In Your Time To Market

New Models, New Pricing, New Billing? Todays’ innovation pace is faster than ever before in history. That is reflected in the record time...

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Agile Billing As A Key Orchestrator For Servitization

The Servitization Business Promise Servitization has been around for years but has recently really started to get traction. The reasons are clear....

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What Is So Special About Managed Service Providers’ Billing

Since MIT offered the first Managed Service Provider (MSP) functions in the ’60s, the industry has grown and evolved tremendously both in revenue and...

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Tackle Your ERP Billing Issues Without Using a Band-Aid

Yes, you want recurring billing, but your ERP and legacy systems do not provide the pricing and rating flexibility to cater for subscriptions and...

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Why Customers Think Billing Should Be Part Of the Revops Strategy

Billing Really Is Part Of Your Customer Process Over the past 10 years, the CX landscape has changed dramatically. Where older CRM systems handed...

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What Should a Billing System Look Like from an IT Perspective

Billing Needs Flexibility, Bridging ERP And CRM We recently had a great conversation with Igor Stenmark, the billing expert at MGI Research, and...

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Automating the Contract-To-Cash Process at OpusCapita

How to gain proper visibility to your service contract-to-cash process? How to automate pricing and billing of a wide legacy contract base and yet...

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Optimize Business Decisions Using Your Billing Data

Data-driven decision-making has been the holy grail since the inception of business analytics. Many years and management books later, the old...

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What Experts Say About Service Billing In 2021

There has been a lot of dynamics in the billing industry, and most growth evolves around service billing. Many companies have created as-a-service...

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Flexible Billing Platform Enables Modern Services

The City Of Lahti Enables Personal Carbon Trading How do you involve your citizens in becoming carbon-neutral and give them control in achieving this...

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Automated Billing Can Be A Money Maker

You Win Some, You Lose Some Revenue is the result of doing things right. After hard-fought sales battles, optimized production of service processes,...

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Billing Is Boring, And That Is How We Like It

Just another day at the office When you think of excitement at the office, the billing department typically doesn’t come to mind. Producing invoices...

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How To Use IoT Data From A Billing Perspective

Making Best Use Of Iot Usage Data Over the last years, IoT data has become common in business. IoT has enabled businesses to optimize their existing...

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Why Is Subscription Billing So 2020

Out with the old and in with the new. Subscription billing has changed our business models forever. But after the turmoil in 2020, the as-a-service...

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Contract Management Is Core In Recurring Billing

Contracts Are often overlooked in subscription and recurring billing

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Here Is Why Your Clients Keep Complaining About Invoices

For your Largest clients, your bill is the mirror of your standards Talk to your clients, and they will all agree, their satisfaction with your...

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From Traditional Services Billing To A Proactive Process

There is a good chance that billing is considered a routine job in your company, recurring after the end of each month. The process is reactive and...

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Experts' Advice On Choosing an Agile Billing System

Agile Billing, The Cornerstone Or Stumbling Block In Your Business Strategy? We have all discovered the need to quickly adapt to new business models...

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Taija Engman of Good Sign vlogs about challenges in transparency and compliance

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Challenges In Transparency And Compliance – Taija Engman Video Blog

Taija has discussed the common pain points in recurring revenue monetization in a video blog series. This time she talks about the challenges in...

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Billing problems hurt customer satisfaction

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Billing Problems Cause Unhappy Customers - Taija Engman's Video Blog

Taija Engman, CEO of Good Sign continues her video blogging about pain points in recurring revenue, with her dog Bea, from a lakeside in Finland.

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Why Agile Billing Is The Key To Future-Proofing Your Business

Companies have been confronted with dramatic shifts in demand as Covid-19 has disrupted our lives and our markets. This disruption is felt in the...

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Slow Time To Market - Video Blog By Taija Engman

Taija Engman, CEO of Good Sign continues her video blogging about pain points in recurring revenue, with her dog Bea, from lakeside in Finland. This...

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Too Much Manual Work In Service Billing - Video Blog By Taija Engman

Taija Engman, with her dog Bea, talks about how manual processes in pricing and billing cause delays and errors. When any service content, change and...

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Taija Engman Video Blogs About Revenue Leakage

Taija Engman, CEO of Good Sign accompanied by Bea, the dog, continues her lakeside video blogging about 5 most common pain points in service billing....

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10 Billing Trends To Watch For In 2021

It is probably safe to say that 2020 has thrown us a few curveballs due to Covid-19. Businesses had to adapt in a very short time, and now at the end...

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Taija Engman Video Blogs About Pain Points in Service Billing

Taija Engman, CEO, and co-founder of Good Sign talks about service billing in a video blog series of 6 episodes, filmed at her family cottage at...

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Why Excel Is the Snake in Your Billing Paradise

Excel Is Everywhere, And For The Right Reasons As a finance professional, you will probably spend a generous amount of time using Microsoft Excel,...

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The Fine Art of Monetizing Services

How to optimize revenue for your service business with the help of your billing system? Services Are The Key To Lasting Business Success In today’s...

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What Your Servitzation Strategy Means To Your Billing

A Perfect Invoice That Matches a Perfect Service Experience The rise of servitization in short: changing product-driven business models to more...

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Billing Beyond Company Boundaries

How Ecosystem Businesses Thrive and Create New Challenges for Agile Billing In a recent article, Harvard Business Review explains how businesses...

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Service Billing Done Manually Hurts Customer Satisfaction

Billing Automation Ensures the Quality of Invoicing When any billing department collects information about service usage and manually assures correct...

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5 Signs When a Billing System Cannot Keep Up With New Business Models

Your business is agile, is your billing system - Look for these Signs Your business is ever-changing in the fast-paced world, and technology is...

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Next-Gen Billing Goes Beyond Subscriptions

Is your system ready for pay-per-use and other models? Subscription billing has taken our economy by storm, and probably you have also embraced the...

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How to bring new services to market quickly

Do you think it takes too long to launch new services? A manufacturing company was actively seeking growth through new digital services. Digital...

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MacGyver Would Have Taped IT-Tools Together - Why You Should Not

The TV hero MacGyver carries duct tape and a Swiss Army Knife for fixing any issue that comes ahead. Many companies seem to use duct tape solutions...

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Modernize Your Quote-to-Cash Process – Enjoy Big Financial Results

Monetize 13 is the only event in Europe focusing purely on monetization, including payments, commerce, billing, and CPQ.

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It Is All About The Customers - The Decade of Servitization Just Begun

Are you ready for 2020? According to a World Economic Forum prediction, products will have become services by 2030. The servitization is on its way...

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Lovable Invoices

It is no news that you should never ignore the importance of customer satisfaction. The news is that invoices can be so lovable that you can surpass...

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How to make your service ecosystem work?

Why an ecosystem in the first place? What are the 7 qualities of supporting software? Parties forming a service ecosystem, understand that by...

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3 BELIEFS that Eat Margins and Growth in Service Business

Make billing transparent to your customers. Don't rely on a crystal ball for truth! Photo: Aleksi Friman, Calcus.com

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Automated Flexibility To Scale Your Service Business

Scalability is a common factor to fast growing and profitable service businesses. It is not only about the ability to manage changes in volume. It...

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Technopolis’ Service Ecosystem

Technopolis implemented Good Sign solution to its Service Ecosystem with Flexible Pricing, Customer Onboarding and Billing for the internationally...

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Benefits of flexible pricing and billing automation

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Pricing and Billing Automation - 10 Benefits Explained Shortly

Last week we published a blog post: “10 Reasons You Should Invest in Flexible Pricing and Billing”. I thought to continue about that, by explaining...

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10 Reasons You Should Invest in Flexible Pricing and Billing

Customer demands change and the market evolves. Service businesses are gaining new ground, but also competition grows strong. All service businesses...

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What is Monetization by MGI

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13 Symptoms Indicating Need to Fix Pricing, Billing and Monetization

I just recently represented Good Sign Solutions at European Monetize 11 event in Amsterdam. The event concentrated in modern monetization...

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The Problem with Billing Automation is Data Quality - How to Fix It? [Get your free guide]

When and Why to Automate Billing Process? We all know that process automation requires data. Service Billing Automation is also based on data. For...

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How to Offer Mass Customized Services Effectively?

In this article we are focusing the mass customization, from a theoretical point of view and also how it is done with Good Sign service solutions. In...

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A Monetization Wizard every Service Business needs [DOWNLOAD]

Monetization Wizard for Service Business Billing Automation Picture by Jouko Keränen from "Russell Harty Plus" UK TV show of The Who performing...

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Why Integrated Financial Automation is the Next Level in Service Management?

Service Businesses Deserve Financial Automation Companies recognize the importance of service quality and the significance of the processes behind...

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Monetizing IoT? Creating Recurring Revenue!

Monetizing IoT Many companies are contemplating how to monetize IoT solutions, and how new data-driven opportunities are changing the characteristics...

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Why ERP Is Not Smart Enough with Recurring Revenue?

Good ERP system is an essential tool to support product sales, manufacturing, warehousing, delivery and billing. However, the ERP mode of operation...

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Does Buying Behavior Change Faster Than Ability to Create Offering?

The other day I attended an event where sales coach Mika D. Rubanovitsch @Rubanovitsch was talking about sales, marketing and customer behavior. His...

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Mobility as a Service, the Good, the Bad, the Ugly?

This blog outlines the opportunities of Mobility as a Service (MaaS) and the challenges in applying MaaS in a local scope. Additionally, what is...

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IoT and New Flexible Service Business Models

Tactical and Strategic IoT Business Goals When I wrote my master’s thesis about “Defining IoT business models in B2B” I did not yet have a full view...

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How to Efficiently Monetize Your ServiceNow Items?

Certified ServiceNow integration for pricing, billing and monetization Service Transformation Calls for New Business Systems Since its birth in 2004...

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CFO Surveys Reveal: Companies Capitalizing on Subscriptions & Services Economy

As-a-Service Business Is Growing Read almost any survey or research paper touching business models: service transformation is clearly visible. There...

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Recurring Revenue – Easy or Difficult?

From Products to Smooth Services The World Economic Forum has anticipated that all products will have become services by the year 2030. This is quite...

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Connected Data Enables New Recurring Revenue Business

From Product Design to Service Design Design used to be associated with tangible materials like wood and glass and plastic and metal: Rococo...

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Contract is the Service Business Operations Engine in the Digital Era

Contract Documents Have a New Meaning in the Digital Era If you were asked to visualize a contract, would you think of a pile of paper with hand...

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How to Close “Buyer – Seller Perception Gap” in Monetizing Pay per Use and Outcome

“Customer expectations have been permanently upgraded”, stated Henrik Ehrnrooth, President & CEO of KONE Corporation in his opening key note at the...

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How to Thrive in Digitalizing Services: Three Questions to Ask.

Digitalization and new business models force most companies to think of the drivers for future success. New business models require new thinking -...

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Fortum HorsePower Grows Customer Oriented Circular Economy Services

End-to-End Digitalization and Monetization for Subscription Services and Logistics Operations Good Sign’s service business platform offers Fortum...

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Towards Outcome Economy

How Is Outcome Economy Tied to End-to-End Digitalization & New Software Capabilities? Our world is under a major change: from selling products to...

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Digitalization - Paradigm Change in Business Model Requires Paradigm Change in Capabilities

Are You Missing Bandwagon of Customizable Services? At this day and age, customers are expecting a customized service - not a choice of a least...

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Seasonal Greetings

Reaching the End of the Year 2016, And although it might not seem too different to 2015, we have seen some formidable change in the views of business...

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Good Sign - Live at Slush - Wed Nov 30th

Good Sign at the tech event of the year, Slush 2016.

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Good Sign - Certified ServiceNow App

We are glad to inform that Good Sign is now a certified app/interface for ServiceNow! Say Good Bye to MS Excel Spreadsheets for gathering service...

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Planning Expensive ERP Modifications to Meet Service Business Requirements?

What Is the Role of ERP? For any kind of business, ERP systems have established an extremely important role in the past years – even to be counted as...

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Dynamic Automation And Orchestration. The Why And How.

The Long Journey to Digital Economy As for today, it might seem that we have travelled far with the opportunities brought to us by digitalization....

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How Digital Platforms May Disrupt Manufacturing Industry

How Digital Platforms May Disrupt Manufacturing Industry: New Ecosystem Business Models Can Utilize 97% More Capacity In his podcast interview CEO...

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Make Your Business More Scalable By Embracing Digitalization

Tidal Wave of New Service Providers Netflix, Uber, PayPal, Kickstarter, Dropbox, Spotify, Pinterest, Facebook… What do they have in common? Each of...

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Innovator Sheet: MaaS Seems To Become A Forerunner Of The New Digital Economy

WHAT IS MAAS? MaaS means ‘Mobility as a Service’. Mobility as a Service combines different modes of transport into one unified service offering....

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Does Your Billing Process Still Include Spreadsheets and Manual Labor?

ARE COMPANIES STILL GATHERING BILLING DATA MANUALLY? Today, even the most complex billing models can be digitalized and automated. However, there are...

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Effectively Connect ServiceNow and SAP with Subscription Billing and Service Contract Billing Automation?

Many prominent service providers have chosen ServiceNow as their backbone system for service management and SAP as their ERP/financial system....

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How a Service Portal is key to service business creation

In the service business industry, customer service can play a critical role in retention and expansion of customer base. Furthermore, many customers...

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Why Scalability Matters In Service Business?

What is Scalability? Scalability. It is one of the key buzzwords of our times. You want to make an impression in a business model strategy meeting?...

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How Service Provider Can Gain 10% More Revenue?

Established Service providers are often missing up to 10% of their recurring services revenue before applying intelligent billing automation. What Is...

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Business Creation: How to grab yor share of IoT?

Everything is connected Whilst the Internet of Things has been widely hyped in the past few years and organizations have been actively launching...

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How Billing Automation Enables Single Source of Truth

Single Source of Truth for Billing Brings Peace of Mind for the Service Provider And the Customer I wish to share some great practical learnings from...

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Improved Profitability with Billing Automation?

Profitability in IoT Requires Intelligence To improve profitability you need to run your existing business more efficiently or choose to create...

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Higher Revenues with Billing Automation

Automating Billing Data Improves Business Is it possible to get 10% higher revenues just by automating existing billing? Can you enable data...

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How to Put Your ERP on Steroids

Don’t we love ERP solutions? Besides being sometimes crumble and difficult to master they get the job done. Goods are delivered and books get closed....

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Improve Efficiency and Customer Satisfaction with Billing Automation

Eliminate 90% of Manual Labor? Yes. Is it possible to eliminate 90% of manual work in billing? And what’s more – can you simultaneously decrease...

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Red Herring Global 100 - The Key Takeways

Red Herring recognizes technology industry startups and leaders of private ventures from around the globe. Their November 2015 Global 100 event...

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Good Sign Solutions Receives Red Herring Global Top 100 Award

Good Sign Solutions joins the exclusive ranks of companies to win the prestigious Red Herring 2015 Top 100 Global Award. The event insights and...

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You don't need to harmonize everything to improve service management efficiency

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How much revenue is your company missing due to unavoidable human failure rates?

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