Who’s Thriving on the AppExchange? Meet Zuora Customers at Dreamforce

by Tricia Reilly

The Zuora Marketing team has been busy getting ready for Dreamforce next week. You might recall, we launched Z-Force at Dreamforce last year, and with so many former salesforce.com employees working at Zuora, attending Dreamforce is like going home.

Last month, we hosted a webinar with salesforce.com which featured customers Marketo and InsideView all about how to make more money on the AppExchange. Phil Fernandez, CEO and Founder of Marketo, and Lisa Bailey, VP Business Operations at InsideView, shared how they’re accelerating growth of their AppExchange business thanks to Zuora. With Dreamforce starting next week, we wanted to invite our readers to meet the Zuora team and our customers and find out how we’re helping them monetize and grow their AppExchange business.

• Meet our CEO Tien Tzuo, salesforce.com’s 11th employee and former Chief Strategy Officer, at Maximize Your Revenues: Market and Deliver Your Solutions on the AppExchange, Thursday at 7.30AM
• Drop by booth #203 for a demo
• Join us for a drink at the AppExchange Appreciation Party on Thrusday night at Temple from 7-10PM
• Follow our tweets on the Dreamforce All Stars List for a chance to win one of three Amazon Kindles!

We’ll also be making a big announcement next week, so stay tuned for the scoop. Both Marketo and InsideView will be exhibiting on the show floor along with other Zuora customers Boomi, Cloud9, Genius, Xactly, Landslide, and Box.net. See you at Moscone!

Zuora Launches Z-Payments 2.0 at Innovate09 - Built with PayPal X

by K. V. Rao

In our last post, we mentioned that we’d be launching our next product at PayPal’s first developer conference, Innovate09. Today we’re thrilled to announce Z-Payments 2.0 – the first online subscription commerce solution built with PayPal X.

You may recall that Zuora first launched Z-Payments back in October of last year, and announced a strategic partnership with PayPal. The first complete payment solution for subscription businesses, Z-Payments 2.0 enables subscription companies to manage the entire recurring payment lifecycle, accept any form of payment including traditional payments, like check or wire transfer, handle payment exceptions, and more. In short, Z-Payments is how subscription businesses get paid.

Today, the relationship between Zuora and PayPal takes another step forward, as Z-Payments 2.0 leverages the Adaptive Payments capabilities in PayPal X to offer Zuora’s customers even greater flexibility in their payment operations.

We’re thrilled to be held up as an example of a successful business built with PayPal’s X platform (we’re told that Osama Bedier, PayPal’s VP Product Development, is going to mention us in his keynote) and we’re excited to see what other innovative products will be launched at Innovate09.

To read the full press release, click here.

To stay up to date with the Zuora team, follow us on Twitter @Zuora.

To hear what all the fuss is about, check out the Tweets about the event (#changehowwepay)