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		<title>The &#8220;Facebook Imperative&#8221;: Some May Not Like It, But Collaboration Tools Are Only Becoming More Social</title>
		<link>http://www.business-software.com/crm/crmbuzz/the-facebook-imperative-some-may-not-like-it-but-collaboration-tools-are-only-becoming-more-social/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aguerra</dc:creator>
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Many in the enterprise software market—users and vendors alike—have been skeptical of Marc Benioff’s “Facebook Imperative.” Salesforce Chatter, the company’s socially-minded enterprise collaboration platform, was introduced at the Dreamforce 2009 conference in November, and went into private beta last month. When the platform went into beta, the Salesforce CEO took to blogs to disseminate the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Salesforce Chatter One-Up Microsoft SharePoint?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The much-hyped Salesforce Chatter went into private beta earlier this month, and demonstrations given to customers have made a definite effort to highlight the platform’s “fun” qualities—not just its functionalities. On Wednesday, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff noted in a guest post on TechCrunch that he’s long wondered why enterprise software isn’t more like Facebook, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online Collaboration Is The Future: IBM LotusLive &amp; Panasonic Announce A Major Deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aguerra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year, cloud computing services and collaboration platforms make for good stories, and this one deals with both. Next week, Big Blue is holding the Lotusphere Conference in Orlando—dedicated to all things dealing with LotusLive, their online collaboration suite—and this week they announced LotusLive’s exciting partnership with Panasonic.
Panasonic has adopted the LotusLive suite for email, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft &amp; HP Team Up for A Private Cloud</title>
		<link>http://www.business-software.com/crm/crmbuzz/microsoft-hp-team-up-for-a-private-cloud/</link>
		<comments>http://www.business-software.com/crm/crmbuzz/microsoft-hp-team-up-for-a-private-cloud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aguerra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard announced a joint cloud investment: they&#8217;ll contribute $250 million for developing and selling private-cloud packages. From the sounds of it, Microsoft’s recently live Windows Azure cloud will be connected to HP hardware.
The new venture is a three-year deal, and will be built on a new “infrastructure-to-application” model, the goal of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salesforce.com Is Floating $500 Million&#8211;Why?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aguerra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Salesforce.com announced it would be offering $500 million aggregate principal amount of convertible senior notes due 2015, in a private placement to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933. In layman’s terms: Salesforce’ll be floating a $500 million convertible bond offering, the bonds are due in 2015, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FTC to Examine Cloud Privacy &#8211; What Will This Mean for Business Software?</title>
		<link>http://www.business-software.com/crm/crmbuzz/ftc-to-examine-cloud-privacy-what-will-this-mean-for-business-software/</link>
		<comments>http://www.business-software.com/crm/crmbuzz/ftc-to-examine-cloud-privacy-what-will-this-mean-for-business-software/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aguerra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the proliferation of SaaS business productivity platforms last year, there came many debates about the security issues cloud computing may raise. Or rather, there were many tech pundits stating that the growing popularity of cloud computing led to sophisticated and safe applications, and therefore cloud security issues were a moot point. Earlier this week, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Text Messaging in Enterprise?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.business-software.com/crm/crmbuzz/text-messaging-in-enterprise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aguerra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Building Customer Relationships]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[SoundBite Agent Text Portal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all the commotion surrounding Enterprise 2.0, social networking tools and video enhancements have received most of the attention in the enterprise software sector, leaving methods like text messaging and SMS on the back burner. Both sides arguing the benefits of Enterprise 2.0 have made convincing statements, and it is certainly true that social networking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Blue Gets Smart about Analytics</title>
		<link>http://www.business-software.com/crm/crmbuzz/big-blue-gets-smart-about-analytics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.business-software.com/crm/crmbuzz/big-blue-gets-smart-about-analytics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aguerra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a while now, IBM has been shifting their focus from hardware to software, and recently, CFO Mark Loughridge told us that they were investing lost in business analytics. Today, the company announced a very large fruit of that endeavor: the IBM Smart Analytics Cloud. This product is the for IBM clients, and is accompanying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile CRM: Always The Bridesmaid, Never The Bride</title>
		<link>http://www.business-software.com/crm/crmbuzz/mobile-crm-always-the-bridesmaid-never-the-bride/</link>
		<comments>http://www.business-software.com/crm/crmbuzz/mobile-crm-always-the-bridesmaid-never-the-bride/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aguerra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smartphones are proliferating at light speed, and applications for them—especially for the iPhone—are growing apace. The iPhone has long been the rival of the business-friendly BlackBerry, but since the advent of the iPhone, other smartphones are rolling out different features in an attempt to match it.
Most recently, the iPhone and the Android phones have taken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hybrid SaaS Model Gains More Ground: CDC Moves toward The Future with A New Acquisition</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aguerra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not long ago, CDC Software announced plans to acquire on-demand companies in order to create one SaaS software solutions provider to complement its on-premise products for various verticals. Last week, CDC announced they have signed a binding term sheet for the future acquisition of a SaaS provider for not-for-profit (NFP) organizations; the name of the [...]]]></description>
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