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		<title>The &#8220;Facebook Imperative&#8221;: Some May Not Like It, But Collaboration Tools Are Only Becoming More Social</title>
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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>
		<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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		<title>Will Salesforce Chatter One-Up Microsoft SharePoint?</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.business-software.com/crm/crmbuzz/will-salesforce-chatter-one-up-microsoft-sharepoint/</link>
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		<title>The Top 10 Social CRM Vendors: Business-Software.com&#8217;s Latest Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We at Business-Software are excited to announce of newest report: Top 10 Social CRM Vendors. The consumer data on networks like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn—to name a few—is something businesses of all sizes cannot afford to miss. Previously referred to as “CRM 2.0,” Social CRM incorporates social media into traditional CRM processes. For example, tracking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.business-software.com/crm/crmbuzz/business-software-com-introduces-the-top-10-social-crm-vendors-report/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s The Appeal of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft products have found a home in the majority of offices, but mostly in the form of personal productivity suites, like the ever-popular Office. Still, those familiar with, or looking for, CRM and ERP solutions have probably heard of Microsoft’s Dynamics platforms.
There will perhaps always be Microsoft naysayers, but there is little denying that their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.business-software.com/crm/crmbuzz/whats-the-appeal-of-microsoft-dynamics-crm-4/</link>
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		<title>Online Collaboration Is The Future: IBM LotusLive &amp; Panasonic Announce A Major Deal</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.business-software.com/crm/crmbuzz/online-collaboration-is-the-future-ibm-lotuslive-panasonic-announce-a-major-deal/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft &amp; HP Team Up for A Private Cloud</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.business-software.com/crm/crmbuzz/microsoft-hp-team-up-for-a-private-cloud/</link>
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		<title>Salesforce.com Is Floating $500 Million&#8211;Why?</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.business-software.com/crm/crmbuzz/salesforce-com-is-floating-500-million-why/</link>
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		<title>FTC to Examine Cloud Privacy &#8211; What Will This Mean for Business Software?</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.business-software.com/crm/crmbuzz/ftc-to-examine-cloud-privacy-what-will-this-mean-for-business-software/</link>
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		<title>Text Messaging in Enterprise?</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.business-software.com/crm/crmbuzz/text-messaging-in-enterprise/</link>
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		<title>UK Trade Groups to Name SaaS/Cloud Standards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Dennis Howlett announced some exciting news on both his personal and ZDNet blogs: the ICAEW (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales) and several UK trade groups will be working together to develop SaaS/cloud standards.
This year, “SaaS” and “cloud computing” business softwares have been discussed nonstop, and those two terms have become [...]]]></description>
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