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Big Blue Gets Smart about Analytics
Posted November 16, 2009 by Morgan Ericcson
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… Read More
Microsoft Cuts Prices on Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Aggressively Courts Salesforce.com's And Oracle's CRM Customers
Posted November 3, 2009 by Morgan Ericcson
Microsoft has been aggressively courting CRM users this week. First, they announced price cuts to their online productivity suite, and yesterday they lowered prices on their Dynamics CRM Online product. In addition to slashing prices,… Read More
SaaS Exploding in Hybrid Form
Posted October 26, 2009 by Morgan Ericcson
Recently, global IT consultancy Avanade commissioned Kelton Research for a global study about cloud computing and the adoption of SaaS, and the findings were pretty remarkable. The prominent thread in the study was that SaaS… Read More
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