Subscribed 2016: Zuora Finance - The Subscription CFO's Best Friend
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Zuora Finance
The Subscription CFO’s best-friend
Lei JinSenior Director, Zuora Product ManagementAngela NgoClient Manager, Zuora Global Services
Zuora Finance
The Subscription CFO’s best-friend
Lei JinSenior Director, Zuora Product ManagementAngela NgoClient Manager, Zuora Global Services
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Zuora: A prospect-to-cash solution for relationship-centric enterprises
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Integration. Scalability. Reliability. Security. Compliance. Extensibility. App Marketplace
Pricing & Packagin
gPricing,
Bundling, Entitlements
Billing
Rating, Invoicing,Taxation
Analytics
Sub. Identity,Dashboards,
Report Builder,
Segments, Triggers
Payments
Online payments,
Offline payments,
Credits, Adjustments
Revenue
Revenue Recognition, Accounting
Close, GL Integration
Subscriber
Management
Cross-sells, Upsells,
Renewals, 360 Sync, Self Service
Quoting
Configuration, Guided
Selling, Rules Engine
Platform
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Main investment area for CFOs: Close Books Accurately & Quickly
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Integration. Scalability. Reliability. Security. Compliance. Extensibility. App Marketplace
Pricing & Packagin
gPricing,
Bundling, Entitlements
Billing
Rating, Invoicing,Taxation
Analytics
Sub. Identity,Dashboards,
Report Builder,
Segments, Triggers
Payments
Online payments,
Offline payments,
Credits, Adjustments
Revenue
Revenue Recognition, Accounting
Close, GL Integration
Subscriber
Management
Cross-sells, Upsells,
Renewals, 360 Sync, Self Service
Quoting
Configuration, Guided
Selling, Rules Engine
Platform
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Main investment area for CFOs: Better Reporting & Analytics
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Integration. Scalability. Reliability. Security. Compliance. Extensibility. App Marketplace
Pricing & Packagin
gPricing,
Bundling, Entitlements
Billing
Rating, Invoicing,Taxation
Analytics
Sub. Identity,Dashboards,
Report Builder,
Segments, Triggers
Payments
Online payments,
Offline payments,
Credits, Adjustments
Revenue
Revenue Recognition, Accounting
Close, GL Integration
Subscriber
Management
Cross-sells, Upsells,
Renewals, 360 Sync, Self Service
Quoting
Configuration, Guided
Selling, Rules Engine
Platform
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Main investment area for CFOs: Scale for Global Enterprises
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Integration. Scalability. Reliability. Security. Compliance. Extensibility. App Marketplace
Pricing & Packagin
gPricing,
Bundling, Entitlements
Billing
Rating, Invoicing,Taxation
Analytics
Sub. Identity,Dashboards,
Report Builder,
Segments, Triggers
Payments
Online payments,
Offline payments,
Credits, Adjustments
Revenue
Revenue Recognition, Accounting
Close, GL Integration
Subscriber
Management
Cross-sells, Upsells,
Renewals, 360 Sync, Self Service
Quoting
Configuration, Guided
Selling, Rules Engine
Platform
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2016-2017 areas of investmentfor the Finance Team
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Continue to help you close books accurately and quicklyBetter reporting and analytics for your businessEnable you to scale operations for a true Global Enterprise
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01Close Books
Accurately & Quickly
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what we have today
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Subscription sub-ledger
Alignment with your GL
Revenue Recognition Rules
International currencies
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what you have beenasking for
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Automated AR Roll-Forward Capabilities
Extended FX functionality• Realized/unrealized gain & loss calculations• Integrations to various FX rate sources of choiceMore options for GL integration
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02Better Reporting
and Analytics
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what we have today
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Zuora metrics in SFDC
Insights
Reporting
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what you have beenasking for
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Performance metrics by product
Non-GaaP KPI’s• Sales bookings • Renewal forecasts• Downsell metrics• Churn metrics
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what’s new this year on the horizon
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• You heard about our new Reporting product that will make presenting these data a lot more pleasant for you• But the underlying secret sauce has always been our purpose built data
model that can track all the key business information • We are continuing to enhance with the following projects:
• Order• Payment Details
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Order – what’s there now
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Today, in Zuora, the most central concept is a Subscription. Those represents the products/services that a customer subscribes to• A user can create a subscription in Zuora and can create
various types of amendments to modify the subscription. • There is not an explicit concept of a sales order.• Billing Schedule and Revenue Schedules are created
against the subscription
SubscriptionBilling Schedule
Revenue Schedule
Amendment
Modifies
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Subscription 1
Order
Order Action 1:Renew subscription
Order Action 2:Add 500 seats
Subscription 1 is renewedAt the same time, 500 more seats are added to subscription
Order Action 3:Add new subscription
Subscription 2 New subscription is created
• We are introducing the concept of an Order• A user can now create an Order to both create and modify a subscription• An Order can create/modify multiple subscriptions at once, and across
multiple customer accounts• This makes it easier to report bookings metric (e.g. upsell, churn, renewal
add-on)
Orderconcept
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Subscription
Order 1 (Initial)
Order 2 (Upgrade)
Billing Schedule 1
Revenue Schedule 1
Revenue Schedule 2
Billing Schedule 2
• Billing Schedules and Revenue Schedules can now be created at the Order level and aggregated up to the Subscription level
• Through Zuora for SalesForce integration, we can tie an Order to a Quote and therefore to a sales opportunity.• This enables reporting on billing and revenue by sales opportunity
Orderconcept (cont’d)
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Payment Details
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• We are introducing the next level of details for Payment, where you can now, not only apply payment against invoices, but also know which invoice items it applies against• This significantly
enhances your ability to manage and report cash at the product level
Apply payment by invoice line items
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03Scale for Global Enterprises
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what we have today
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GL Segmentation
Summary Level JE by BU
Summary Level JE by CurrencyInternational currencies
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what you have beenasking for
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Close the books by entity/region
Define functional system behavior and admin access by entitySingle view of your business
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what’s new this year
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Multi Entity
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• Introducing a multi-layer, hierarchical entity structure that models how Global Enterprises organize themselves• Each entity represents a legal entity or business unit that operates independently
and can sell to multiple countries• New entities can be added or deactivated dynamically as company structure
changes
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• A user can be given access to one or more entities, with a single login, but potentially different roles/permissions in each entity
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• Operationally, each entity is shielded from other entities, with separate• Accounting close process and Home currency• Bill run, Payment run, and Journal run • Configuration settings such as invoice number ranges, time zone, and billing settings• Set of billing accounts and associated AR and revenue transactions• Product catalog
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• Zuora Reporting would give the option to do roll-ups where a user from a “parent” entity can access data from “child” entities.
• Currency amounts can be converted into the home currency of the current entity.
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• Zuora also offers sharing and central management options to make management across entities easier.
• Product Catalog can be shared, allowing entities to cross sell products from other entities.
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• Each entity that owns the product can specify which entities can sell the product and what rate plans are applicable.
Sharing Product Across Entities
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• Each receiving entity can then choose to make the product available by “accepting” the product.
• Depending on permissions and roles, new rate plans can be added or existing rate plans and product information can be edited
Creating a Product shared from another Entity
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Summary
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Better Reporting and
Analytics
Close BooksAccurately &
Quickly
Scale for Global Enterprises
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