Accounting Software
The revolution in accounting software from desktop-based software to Web-based applications (hosted "in the cloud") are changing the entire industry. It's time for every organization to see what the implications are on security, efficiency and productivity.
Cloud-Based Services
Cloud-based services refer to software or other applications that are entirely hosted and managed in a remote location. For example, Yahoo! mail and other Web-based email services were early cloud services, while cloud-based word processesors, CRMs and data storage arrived later in the Web technology evolution.
Whose cloud is it anyway?
We were invited to demonstrate our Referral Management Solution at Friday's Cloud Computing Roundtable, put on by TechCrunch. The provocative title of the event was "Whose cloud is it anyway?", and TechCrunch invited a who's who in cloud computing to help resolve the issue.
Lawson’s CEO: Head in the SaaS Sand
Jim Berkowitz’s blog today makes mention of a rather amazing interview with Harry Debes, CEO of Lawson Software, in which Debes predicts that the SaaS “industry will collapse,” starting with Salesforce.com, in two years. I presume that to save...
Read more about Lawson’s CEO: Head in the SaaS Sand...Traditional CRM vendor fights back
Traditional CRM vendor fights back by integrating SharePoint, Outlook. Microsoft may be engaged in a price war with Salesforce.com, but traditional server-based CRM vendors have hardly rolled over and cried uncle. Today, CDC Software announced...
Read more about Traditional CRM vendor fights back...Customer is King - Feedly RSS Reader Launched! Lon
Its been a great day for feedly - the start up created by Edwin Khodabakchian and his impressive team. I have known Edwin since Oracle acquired his previous baby Collaxa. He brought a fresh new spirit to Oracle and was an inspiration to be around....
Read more about Customer is King - Feedly RSS Reader Launched! Long Live the King!...$15 Million from Bessemer
Tomorrow morning we will announce that we've raised another $15 million to help Intacct to grow our business. This is on top of $14 million we raised in June 2007 and raises the total amount invested in Intacct since its founding to just more than...
Read more about $15 Million from Bessemer...Questions not answers make great employee performa
Questions and not the answers you provide create the most powerful employee performance reviews.Think about learning to drive a car - someone could tell you what to do until they were blue in the face, but it wasn't until you physically sat in the...
Read more about Questions not answers make great employee performance reviews...Conventional wisdom on CRM requirements doesn't wo
The final major flaw with the functionality led approach to CRM requirements gathering is the Rumsfeldian notion of the unknown unknowns. Users, who invariably haven’t used CRM technology before, are expected to articulate a complete vision of what...
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