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- Sales Performance Management in an On-Demand Secure Environment
- Every organization should be able to leverage industry-leading Sales Performance Management SPM technology to directly link company sales strategy to day-to-day and quarter-to-quarter incentive compensation execution. SPM improves agility and responsiveness to change, helps organizations attract and retain top talent, and ultimately promotes increased shareholder value. In many situations, an...
- Tags: Environment, On-demand, Callidus Software Inc., Incentive Based Compensation, Sales Performance Management, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales
- White papers 2007-08-01
- Callidus on demand? Not Xactly
- Callidus on demand? Not XactlyWelcome to the partyCallidus should be given some credit here for trying to move their business towards a more efficient on demand model. I think it is wishful thinking for pureplay on demand vendors to believe that no enterprise 'dinasours' will enter the space successfully. One...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, software, Callidus Software Inc., Synygy
- Discussion threads 2006-04-04
- Callidus on demand? Not Xactly
- Callidus Software has teamed up with the new Sun Grid utility to become the latest enterprise software maker to bring the term 'on demand' into disrepute. Callidus has slapped the 'on demand' label on a hosted version"Do...
- Tags: Callidus Software Inc., on-demand
- Blog posts 2006-04-04
- Sun Grid: $84,000 per day
- Sun formally launched its Sun Grid service which I blogged about here, with 5,000 sockets, a year after first announcing it. If 70 percent of the current computing pool were used on a daily basis, Sun would rake in about $84,000 per day. In a Bloomberg story, Aisling MacRunnels, senior...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Grid
- Blog posts 2006-03-22
- Callidus True to Form With New Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance
- Callidus Software is setting out to help companies reduce the risk of non-compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley. The company, which claims to be the only enterprise investment management provider to offer internal process controls required to improve corporate governance, with regards to incentive compensation management. Callidus' 'TrueComp' supports compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley, improving...
- Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance, Incentive, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Callidus Software Inc., Incentive Based Compensation, TrueComp, Sales Force Management, Sarbanes-Oxley, Sales, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Case studies
- Incentive Compensation: Does Yours Meet Sarb-Ox Standards?
- Millions of dollars flowing to employees and business partners represent significant shareholder resources. Sarbanes-Oxley has caused many companies to look closely at their incentive compensation management systems, and whether they maintain an appropriate level of internal process control. This webcast explains why incentive compensation is significant under Sarbanes-Oxley, what is...
- Tags: Incentive, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Callidus Software Inc., Incentive Based Compensation, Standards, Sales Force Management, Sarbanes-Oxley, Sales, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance
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Additional Resources
- Putting the XP into the OLPC
- So, Microsoft has managed to get in on the OLPC bandwagon and put XP in front of millions of eyeballs in the developing world. But is this move about the children's education, or it is about recruiting more Windows users. What's important to note is that Microsoft...
- Tags: Team, One Laptop Per Child Project, Team Management, Microsoft Windows XP, Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Fight card: AMD Radeon 4800 vs. Nvidia GTX 200
- The high-end graphics card market isn't the straightforward, mano-a-mano battle it used to be. Graphics cards with dual GPUs, systems with multiple cards in CrossFire or SLI implementations, and most recently hybrid graphics have all muddied the picture. Meanwhile, Intel has improved its integrated graphics and has long-term plans in...
- Tags: Card, NVidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Radeon, GPU, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Open Source in 2013
- <satire> <source> Thank you. (Picture from Fox, America's only network. My picture at the top of this blog is expected to look much like this one in 2013, if I shave and get the combover right.) The hectic but repetitive routine of business and journalism often seems...
- Tags: Job, America, World Entertainment Shortage, Recruitment & Selection, Open Source, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Web 2.0 and the end of advertising
- The idea that software on the Web is going to be largely funded by advertising is just so wrong-headed, I hardly know where to start. It had me spluttering in the latest BriefingsDirect Insights analyst podcast hosted by Dana Gardner — more on that in a moment. Let's move on...
- Tags: Software, Web, Web 2.0, Advertisement, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Video game hardware and software sales up 47% in April 2008
- Americans spent $1.23 bln on video games, hardware and accessories in April 2008, up 47% from April 2007. Total hardware sales grew 26% to $426.2 mln, with the Wii selling 714,200 units, followed by the handheld Nintendo DS at 414,800. Software sales surged to $654.7 mln from $389.4 mln in...
- Tags: Software, Video Game, Video, Hardware, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Games, Sales, Personal Technology, AM
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- News to know: XP meets XO; Yahoo; Facebook; Verdiem; DIY phishing
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO. Christopher Dawson: Sugar-free Windows, as predicted Microsoft cuts backup from Windows Home Server PowerPack Larry Dignan: Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, Yahoo! Inc., Privacy, TechMeme, Icahn, Phishing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Stonesoft Security in Virtual Environments
- As I mentioned in the post, Virtualization and security, quite a number of suppliers focused on security in virtualized environments have come forward to speak with me in the past month. Stonesoft is one of those companies. Mark Boltz, Senior Solutions Architect, and Greg Mead, Solutions Architect, both of Stonesoft,...
- Tags: Network, Environment, Stonesoft, Stonegate Management Center, Security, Networking, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Introduction to BIT
- This is the 1st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Introduction This book is designed for people who interact with, but do not want to become, professional information systems...
- Tags: Information System, Bear, Computer, Business Owner, Systems Decision, Dick, Jane, Systems Culture, Productivity, Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature
- There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...
- Tags: Web, Industry, Mashup, JackBe, Lotus Mashups, MashupHub, Mindtouch, Itasca, Serena, Mashup Exchange, SnapLogic, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Comcast, Cox block BitTorrent 24/7
- Comcast and Cox are blocking BitTorrent traffic, regardless of the time of day or day of the week, students from the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems report. And despite suggestions that BitTorrent blocking is widespread across ISPs, the Institute's Glasnost test found that the two cable...
- Tags: BitTorrent, Comcast Corp., Internet Service Provider, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Does 'SOA lifecycle management' say it better than 'SOA governance'?
- Oh what a difference five years makes. Back in the good old days, 2002-03, IT people at the time our ancestors were fascinated with this new approach called "service oriented architecture," which would make integration faster and cheaper and less onerous. Now that many companies have services in production, they...
- Tags: Lifecycle Management, SOA, SOA Governance, Miko, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Verdiem spruces up its Survey PC power management software
- Verdiem, one of the better known developers of power management software that counts Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Microsoft among its close partners, has delivered an impressive upgrade to its Surveyor technology. According to the Seattle-based company, the focus was on providing IT managers with even more configuration flexibility than previously available....
- Tags: Software, Power Management, PC, Power Consumption, Survey, Verdiem, Desktops, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Collaboration 2.0...
- For the last couple of years I've been in the trenches managing a sizeable collaboration space across three continents for a large multinational enterprise. The diplomacy, strategy, tactics and sheer hard work of managing, building and running this type of space can be all consuming, particularly with...
- Tags: Strategy, Web, Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0, Groupware, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- BriefingsDirect Insights analysts probe future of online advertising and find transactional lucre lurking
- Read a full transcript of the podcast. The future of online advertising captures the headlines and attention when the likes of Microsoft courts the likes of Yahoo! And Wall Street still has a hard time figuring out how much Google is worth, based on just those little...
- Tags: Software, Advertisement, Business, Online Advertising, Bookkeeping Service, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
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