In the wake of Microsoft's 56% commercial-cloud revenue growth, recent comments from executive vice-president and CFO Amy Hood offer remarkable insights into why everything in Redmond seems to be humming along these days.

A functional content marketing strategy is one that has actually been optimized to provide maximal business value, no matter which metrics you’ve landed on for your guiding principles.

Easy access to rating information on the web has fundamentally changed the way consumers make purchases. They’re no longer a passive group and in many cases...

But a huge shift started to take place in the industry about 15 years ago with the advancement of software as a service (SaaS), which connects cloud-based users over the internet.SaaS transformed the software development industry

At the highest level, it’s clear that public market investors are giving credit to SaaS businesses for future profitability when growth moderates.