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What's The Appeal of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4?
Posted Jan 20 2010 by Morgan Ericcson
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 ... Read More
Online Collaboration Is The Future: IBM LotusLive & Panasonic Announce A Major Deal
Posted Jan 14 2010 by Morgan Ericcson
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, ... Read More
Microsoft & HP Team Up for A Private Cloud
Posted Jan 13 2010 by Morgan Ericcson
This morning, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard announced a joint cloud investment: they'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 ... Read More
Salesforce.com Is Floating $500 Million--Why?
Posted Jan 12 2010 by Morgan Ericcson
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 ... Read More
FTC to Examine Cloud Privacy - What Will This Mean for Business Software?
Posted Jan 07 2010 by Morgan Ericcson
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 ... Read More
Text Messaging in Enterprise?
Posted Jan 05 2010 by Morgan Ericcson
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. ... Read More
UK Trade Groups to Name SaaS/Cloud Standards
Posted Dec 21 2009 by Morgan Ericcson
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 ... Read More
PaaS Remains on Edge
Posted Dec 18 2009 by Morgan Ericcson
Research and Markets announced this week that they added a “PaaS Remains on Edge” report to their offerings, based on studies by Tech Strategy Partners, an analyst firm. A large portion of the report centers ... Read More
Social CRM for Larger Businesses: Customer Communities Could Be Key
Posted Dec 16 2009 by Morgan Ericcson
This week, LoopFuse’s VP of Field Operations, Matt Quinlan, sat down with Helpstream’s Bill Odell to discuss utilizing Social CRM to create customer success. Quinlan oversees sales, marketing, and “customer success” at the on-demand marketing ... Read More
SAP Influencer Summit 09: SAP Moving toward Hybrid-SaaS Model, Away From Their Image As An On-Premise ERP Vendor
Posted Dec 09 2009 by Morgan Ericcson
SAP is holding their Influencer Summit in Boston this week, and it goes without saying that as a major ERP vendor, attendees are paying very close attention to what they have to say about on-demand ... Read More