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Alan Trefler

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
179 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1188 Pega About To Hit $1B in ARR as 30+ Year "Overnight Success"

I mean, everybody these days is talking about digital transformation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1188 Pega About To Hit $1B in ARR as 30+ Year "Overnight Success"

And to tell you the truth, a lot of that is heavy lifting at scale.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1188 Pega About To Hit $1B in ARR as 30+ Year "Overnight Success"

And that's why we are so excited about where we are, because our heritage, our being able to do this for sophisticated and

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1188 Pega About To Hit $1B in ARR as 30+ Year "Overnight Success"

complicated organizations is now something we can bring with the cloud

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1188 Pega About To Hit $1B in ARR as 30+ Year "Overnight Success"

to varied and smaller and different companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1188 Pega About To Hit $1B in ARR as 30+ Year "Overnight Success"

Let them get started fast, but letting them know they're not gonna run out of runway.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1188 Pega About To Hit $1B in ARR as 30+ Year "Overnight Success"

Well, part of being successful is not doing everything.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1188 Pega About To Hit $1B in ARR as 30+ Year "Overnight Success"

And we look to see if what we're doing is true to the idea of our model-based architectures.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1188 Pega About To Hit $1B in ARR as 30+ Year "Overnight Success"

We have an architecture that you could think of as a CAD CAM for software itself.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1188 Pega About To Hit $1B in ARR as 30+ Year "Overnight Success"

It's software that literally writes software by looking at the types of things people want to accomplish.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1188 Pega About To Hit $1B in ARR as 30+ Year "Overnight Success"

Those types of things fall into certain categories.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1188 Pega About To Hit $1B in ARR as 30+ Year "Overnight Success"

And so we need to be rigorous about making sure we solve problems like a customer service desktop, problems such as driving a plan of care for a diabetic or somebody who has a chronic condition.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1188 Pega About To Hit $1B in ARR as 30+ Year "Overnight Success"

Those sorts of workflow and engagement use cases are, to our mind, absolutely critical.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1188 Pega About To Hit $1B in ARR as 30+ Year "Overnight Success"

And we want to make sure we're aligning what we do with what our software does well and what our customers have been successful with.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1188 Pega About To Hit $1B in ARR as 30+ Year "Overnight Success"

Well, I think there's been a number of ideas around IoT that are both very interesting ideas, but I think there's a question about timing as much as there is a question about capability.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1188 Pega About To Hit $1B in ARR as 30+ Year "Overnight Success"

A lot of folks running in that area.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1188 Pega About To Hit $1B in ARR as 30+ Year "Overnight Success"

Now, ironically and interestingly, we do, we have,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1188 Pega About To Hit $1B in ARR as 30+ Year "Overnight Success"

Software that does IoT, for example, for GM, GM OnStar.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1188 Pega About To Hit $1B in ARR as 30+ Year "Overnight Success"

If a GM car hits a tree, it calls a Pega system.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1188 Pega About To Hit $1B in ARR as 30+ Year "Overnight Success"

But whether that's a business whose time is up.