Posts for "Business Software News"

Here at SIGNiX, a lot of people ask us why our digital signatures will hold up better in court than other electronic signatures. We could tell you, but we’d rather show you how electronic signatures have held up in the real world. Let’s take a look at the court case Adams vs. Quiksilver, Inc. (2010 Cal App. Unpub. LEXIS 1236 (Feb. 22, 2010)) The Case In 2008, Lynn Adams applied for a job with Quiksilver. After interviews, Quiksilver told her that one of the requirements before she could be hired was passing a background check. An employee at Quiksilver emailed her a link to ... READ MORE

I have a good friend who was a producer of the cult TV show "Veronica Mars" from 2004-2007.  Recently, the creative team behind that show made Internet history in an interesting way - they partnered with the website Kickstarter, a resource for crowdsourced fund-raising, to raise millions of dollars to underwrite production of a "Veronica Mars" feature film. As of this writing, over 50,000 fans have pledged anywhere from $10 to $10,000 or more. Pretty cool. My company is the corporate sponsor of xTuple PostBooks - a leading open source ERP - which is currently being honored as the "Project of the Month" ... READ MORE

The process of shopping for and implementing an ERP system involves much more than just choosing a vendor. You also need to choose an implementation partner, and this is an important relationship. This article from MS Dynamics World gave some great tips on how to have a healthy relationship with this type of partner, using Microsoft Dynamics ERP (Dynamics GP, NAV, SL, or AX) as the example. But the same holds true with any ERP software partner you choose. This partner will help you with implementation, support, training, add-ons, and much more. In many cases, that partner will be your lifeline, ... READ MORE

Ah, tech marketing. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. 1. The learning curve can be wonderfully steep It's not true of all the tech companies and products I have worked with during my 25-year career, but my favourite clients have invariably been the ones that require me to go deep in order to understand them. I don't have an iron ring on my pinkie finger and although I was once a Canadian math Olympiad, I abandoned the maths and sciences in favour of writing, journalism and business strategy when I hit university. (However, I couldn't resist taking Calculus ... READ MORE

FirstRain, a web-based customer intelligence platform, is announcing today their new mobile enterprise customer intelligence service--FirstRain for Touch, built upon the Salesforce Touch Platform. Not only is FirstRain for Touch meant to integrate with a business's existing CRM, but it also allows organizations to develop their own customer intelligence applications quickly and easily, then deploy it to their own workforce. By helping users make customer information more readily available to sales teams, FirstRain hopes to "accelerate the impact of mobile for [their] customers." Given the fact that BYOD and mobility are such a hot topic in the business world right now, ... READ MORE

One of the most common questions that we receive in our Community is what alternatives exist out there for small businesses that don't want to use QuickBooks anymore. In fact, we even put together a list of QuickBooks alternatives for easy reference since so many people ask us that question. Seeing this plea for other software solutions so many times, we wondered why users seem to hate QuickBooks so much. Given the fact that it's one of the biggest accounting solutions on the market, why are so many users so dissatisfied with it? What Do QuickBooks Users Have to Say? To answer ... READ MORE

Remember when websites had hardly any hyperlinks? Over the years, we have seen some technological innovations that have made the Web transform from a simple one-way communication tool to a network of social applications that promote two-way communication. The “new Internet,” properly termed the “social web” has started a trend that is revolutionizing the way businesses function. The emergence of various social channels available on the web allow businesses easily take on a new form communication to interact, listen and engage with colleagues and customers. Make way for a new business trend Above all, the social web has given way to a growing phenomenon ... READ MORE

In this post I want to show a technique that is an alternative for creating a business case: "Lean Canvas." Lean Canvas has been proposed by the book: "Running Lean," that itself is based on "Lean Startup." The idea of Lean Canvas is to put what would go into the executive summary of a business case on one page and to forget about writing the rest of the business case. The justification is that writing a business case takes two to three months and CxOs normally only read the executive summary. So instead of spending 2 to 3 months, you spend ... READ MORE

With more and more businesses becoming more savvy in Internet and search marketing, it also becomes more difficult for smaller businesses to stand out in the online noise. Creating quality content for your website and devoting time and money to search marketing is one thing, but what if you don't have those resources at your disposal? That's where WordStream comes in. WordStream not only delivers a paid search marketing platform that helps businesses optimize their online marketing efforts, but they also provide a number of services to help small and medium sized businesses get their search marketing on track. We took ... READ MORE

The tech world is buzzing with news of the new Pebble watch, which is using e-paper technology to make not just a watch, but a whole new device. You can easily customize and program the Pebble watch with the use of an iPhone or Android app to send you alerts, use for activities like running and bicycling, and even link to your phone for caller ID and SMS alerts. It goes beyond just making a better watch—Pebble could actually usher in a new era of  devices that keep us connected even better than our smartphones and tablets can. By now, we're all ... READ MORE