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Was Marc Benioff at Oracle OpenWorld As A Nod to Oracle's Move toward The Cloud?
Posted October 22, 2009 by Morgan Ericcson
Cloud computing is here to stay, which is a certainty that even Larry Ellison embraces, even for all his posturing with Salesforce.com founder—and self-proclaimed “cloud-computing evangelist”—Marc Benioff. Last week at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco,… Read More
More and More Mobile: Oracle Siebel and Samsung SDS Take CRM to Smartphones
Posted October 21, 2009 by Morgan Ericcson
The outpouring of Oracle OpenWorld news continues: Samsung SDS and Oracle have co-developed a native mobile CRM application. Last week, demonstrations of the new application were held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, but… Read More
Oracle and Siebel Get Analytical Social CRM
Posted October 14, 2009 by Morgan Ericcson
Last week, InsideView announced enhancements to its integration of SalesView with both Oracle CRM and Siebel CRM applications. InsideView is a proponent of social media and self-proclaimed leaders of the “Sales 2.0” push, and these… Read More
BMC Leaving The Protection of The Firewall - CMS Is Moving to The Cloud
Posted October 12, 2009 by Morgan Ericcson
Many content management system providers are moving their offerings to the cloud—or at least providing both hosted and on-demand options—and it seems that the security issues of cloud computing are becoming less and less of… Read More
Tips for Security in The Cloud
Posted September 25, 2009 by Morgan Ericcson
The expansion of cloud computing is unstoppable, and its growth within enterprise software is manifest destiny. Of course, when dealing with cloud storage there are always questions about security. After a recent Unisys survey revealed… Read More
Salesforce.com Updating to Service Cloud 2
Posted September 23, 2009 by Morgan Ericcson
Salesforce.com has had a pretty strong showing in 2009, due in part to the company’s introduction of Cloud Service (a SaaS application) at the beginning of this year. Early this month, Salesforce announced an upgrade… Read More
Cloud Computing: What it Means For Your Business
Posted October 30, 2008 by John Harrison
The Business Software Advisor You ask the questions, and our resident software guru shares her wisdom. This week’s question: I’ve been hearing a lot about “cloud computing”. What is it and what does it… Read More
Open Source: The New ERP Frontier?
Posted September 9, 2008 by John Harrison
Has enterprise resource planning (ERP) software become too rigid? Many experts believe it has, with its lack of innovation and limited ability to truly conform to the unique operations and processes of its users. And… Read More