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Salesforce’s SMB Story: Great Vision, But a Complicated Plot Line
By Laurie McCabe | Oct 02 2012
“Why can’t business software be as easy to use as buying a book on Amazon?” Hilary Koplow-McAdams, President of Salesforce.com’s Commercial Division, told the crowd at the Dreamforce 2012 SMB keynote. Read More
Faces at Dreamforce '12
By N. Rowan | Sep 18 2012
The Business-Software.com team is at Dreamforce '12 this week, documenting what is called "the cloud computing event of the year." We will be talking with innovative brand name companies, the hottest start-ups, and attendees to… Read More
What to Watch for at Dreamforce ’12
By James Sullivan | Sep 18 2012
The 10th incarnation of Dreamforce will be held for the 8th straight year at the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco. Marc Benioff and the Salesforce team are predicting attendance in excess of 100,000 people,… Read More
Ad-Supported Software Is Here to Stay
By James Sullivan | Sep 10 2012
During my research for our series on free software, I encountered a number of successful companies offering free solutions through an ad-supported business model. The ad-supported software model is a departure from traditional propriety software… Read More
What Is Health Data Management Software?
By Mark Aspillera | Sep 06 2012
Information management and the paper trail is a vital function for any organization, but especially so at a medical office. Health data management software is narrowly tailored towards functions directly affecting or monitoring information related… Read More
Vendor Acquisition Roundup: Why Tech Giants Are Scooping Up Cloud and Social Upstarts
By Darlene Lin | Aug 30 2012
Large vendors like Oracle and SAP have started to realize that their traditional systems may no longer cut it. But, their solution offerings weren’t built with the innovative technologies currently seen in the marketplace today.… Read More
The Case for Social Customer Support
By James Sullivan | Aug 24 2012
In the past few years numerous businesses have experimented with using social media as an avenue for delivering customer support. Today, leading companies like Comcast and Home Depot operate successful social support campaigns. Their efforts… Read More
Gist Contact Management Shutting its Doors on September 15th
By Amanda Andonian | Aug 23 2012
The Gist contact management solution is officially shutting down on September 15th as the development team focuses more on RIM products. Read More
Hearsay Social Helps Companies with their Biggest Challenge: Content
By Amanda Andonian | Aug 21 2012
Hearsay Social, which helps enterprises that have large sales organizations and local store networks to maintain a consistent social media strategy across the country, recently debuted their new Content Exchange module. Read More
SCM and Enterprise: Andreessen Horowitz's $100 Million Investment in GitHub
By Mark Aspillera | Aug 21 2012
When Andreessen Horowitz announced earlier in June that his venture capital firm would invest $100 million in the online program management application GitHub, people paid attention. GitHub is application development software that performs the task… Read More