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- Antitrust: Time to break apart the phone companies -- again?
- Actually,those 'guaranteed revenue' companiesAre not so rare. Food companies, oil and gas companies, phone companies, electric companies, water utilities.... the list goes on and on if I had enough time to think of them all.That is why we need to break up any company that gets more than a 10%...
- Tags: Corporate law, Telecom & Utilities, Network technology, Food & Beverage, 360Networks Corp., phone company, phone, antitrust
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- Salesforce.com and CODA hook up
- Salesforce.com and CODA (via its parent Unit 4 Agresso) are hooking up to create FinancialForce.com. While financial details of the arrangement were not revealed, Salesforce.com is a minority stakeholder in the new company. From the blurbs: The CODA 2go team and products have transferred to FinancialForce.com, which will...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., CODA, FinancialForce.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- Pay to play: The vendor / analyst mating dance
- Analyst Liability?Could you imagine if a customer held an analyst liable if their review/recommendation was markedly different than the customer's experience? I know your Devil's Triangle theory would make it near impossible to "pin" it on the analyst review, but it is an intriguing idea given the "mating dance" you...
- Tags: Pay-to-play
- Discussion threads 2009-09-24
- Time to Put A Stake in The Ground on Social CRM
- Time to Put A Stake in The Ground on Social CRMThe clarion call it is!Paul, this certainly is the clarion call for action!Am glad you picked up the threads of this fight a couple of weeks back & hope that you have put an end to the bickering! :)I am...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise software, Social CRM
- Discussion threads 2009-07-06
- Gearing up for Apple's WWDC: Don't forget about the apps
- Gearing up for Apple's WWDC: Don't forget about the appsWow, this comment takes the cake!![i]It still doesn't change the fact that Apple changed the game with these apps and sent competitors - from RIM to Google - into copycat mode. Both Blackberry and Android phones both [b]now have apps for...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Operating systems, Mobile applications, Cellular phones, Wireless and Mobility, Apple Inc., app support, Apple iPhone, mobile
- Discussion threads 2009-06-03
- Social PR Survey II: Continued disconnect between clients, agencies
- Back in February I published the results of a social public relations survey that attempted to gauge client satisfaction levels with their current PR agencies. What showed up was dismal - and really showed that client trust in their agencies was low. Given that data, and several...
- Tags: Agency, Social Media, Client, Survey, Advertising & Promotion, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-05-11
- Oracle Office, MySQL, and other dreams
- Oracle Office, MySQL, and other dreamsIt also allows Oracle to take baby steps towards the world where databases become a commodity. They will be already are moving up the chain to applications.In the transition, Oracle will have the number one commodity database with the best monetization strategy, and be able...
- Tags: OpenOffice, Databases, OPEN SOURCE, Oracle Corp., Oracle Office, MySQL, database
- Discussion threads 2009-05-02
- SAP software revenue skids in first quarter; Maintenance terms tweaked
- SAP's first quarter software revenue---an indicator of maintenance and services health skidded 33 percent due to a "difficult operating environment" and a tough year ago comparison. Meanwhile, SAP altered its maintenance pricing plans to allay customer concerns. SAP on Wednesday reported first quarter net income of €204...
- Tags: Software, Revenue, Customer, SAP AG, Dennis Howlett, Vinnie Mirchandani, Upgrades, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- Is it time for a Chief Social Media Officer?
- Is it time for a Chief Social Media Officer?CSMO? No.. no more C titlesAlong with CTO, CIO, CSO, CMO CISO.. come on people. There are too many C titles. In most cases CIO's don't sit on the board, CTO's don't sit on the board, CSOs NEVER sit...
- Tags: C/C++, Corporate governance, Programming languages, social media, Chief Social Media, C, Is It Time, IS IT, marketing, board
- Discussion threads 2009-04-16
- Resumes in a Web 2.0 world
- Resumes in a Web 2.0 worldRE: Resumes in a Web 2.0 worldYeah so great idea to have your Resume include the "social networking" component...2 things I see wrong here: 1: Most companies put a block on all social networking/blog websites. (yes most IT Admi'sn can un-block them, but why?) 2:...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Channel management, Blogging, Social Sites, Craig, contract comment, Web 2.0 World, Facebook, Web 2.0, job, Web
- Discussion threads 2009-04-07
- HP Business Intelligence Solutions: Connected Intelligence for Better Business Outcomes
- BI consultancy brings deep understanding of customer environments and workflows to a range of services based on proven, repeatable best practices and methodologies built specifically for BI and based on real-world experience with customers. It specialises in large-scale, complex information environments and apply deep vertical experience gained from thousands of...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Connected Corp., Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2009-04-01
- SAS preps cloud computing facility; Bets on on-demand BI
- SAS is planning to spend $70 million on a cloud computing facility at its Cary, N.C. headquarters as it expands its on-demand offerings. SAS seems to be making a big bet on business intelligence software in the cloud, a concept that isn't expected to get a lot of traction. ...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, Software-as-a-service, On-demand, SAS Institute, Business Analytics, Forrester Research Inc., Forrester Analysis, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Software As A Service (SaaS), Pricing, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- What should Apple do - Scale down Mac OS X or scale up iPhone OS?
- What should Apple do - Scale down Mac OS X or scale up iPhone OS?dosen't matterunless you have apple computers, since they have a very samll percentage of the market, who really cares, Oviously, Apple will not do a netbook like everyone else.It will at least have a swivel screen...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, Desktops, Apple iPhone, iPhone OS, Scale-down Mac OS X, Apple-do, operating system, Snow Leopard
- Discussion threads 2009-03-09
- Green is still Gold (But Beware of the Politics of Gesture)
- Foolhardy it may be to go out on a limb here to take on my boss (in this carnation I mean my editor, Larry Dignan) and a force of nature that is my fellow ZDNET blogger Dennis Howlett but I have to disagree with both on the subject of viability of the green market....
- Tags: Sustainability, Oracle Corp., Gesture, Dennis, Hugh McLeod, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2009-02-28
- Forrester CRM analyst discusses IT failure [podcast]
- Strong executive leadership and organizational transformation are essential determinants of successful IT projects. Any IT initiative that does not properly address these strategic points is doomed to fail. I spoke with Forrester CRM, customer experience, and call center analyst, Dr. Natalie Petouhoff, to explore these issues. Click...
- Tags: Information Technology, CRM, Forrester Research Inc., Natalie, System Integrator, Podcasts, Internet, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2009-02-23
- State-Owned Power Company Increases Productivity With Latest Operating System
- The 64-year old PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara PLN is Indonesia's state-owned power company. With around 38 million customers across the country, it has always been in the lookout for new technologies that will help it maximize its productivity and achieve cost efficiency. As one fourth of its 40,000 workers using...
- Tags: Operating System, Power Company, Microsoft Corp., Indonesia, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Strategy, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Management
- Case studies 2009-02-16
- Getting on the wavelength
- There's a solid, wide focused article by Tim Weber on the BBC News website's Davos coverage which articulates well the challenge many companies have in understanding and engaging with the internet on the most basic strategic level. Readers of sophisticated technical sites like...
- Tags: Knowledge, Social Media, Accountability, Perception, Internet, Public Relations, Blogging, Strategy, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Finance, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-01-30
- CRM Vendor Thought Leaders - Thinking, Thinking......Hmmm
- Since I was totally disappointed in the performance of the NY Giants about 10 days ago, though happy the Eagles and Ravens had their butts whupped last weekend, I have had little to look forward to this year, (other than today's incredible inauguration of President Obama, which I am...
- Tags: Idea, Leader, CRM, Anthony, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Leadership, Marketing, Software, Management, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-01-20
- CRM 2.0: The Government, Public Service & A Transformed World
- I KNOW that everyone who reads ZDNET columns loves technology. I get that. I also KNOW that everyone who reads ZDNET blogs loves it when the bloggers dish on technology companies - especially, it seems, Microsoft. I realize that coolness and government don't go together very well - probably something...
- Tags: Institution, Singapore, Public Service, CRM, Stuff Legend, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-01-14
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