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- Chatting (Not Chattering) About Salesforce - Part I
- (NOTE BEFORE I START: This is one really long post. So rather than post it in all its glory in a single file or post it here over two days, I'm trying something new. I'm posting the first half here. And the second half on PGreenblog. Â Let's see how that...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer Service, Twitter Inc., Sales Force, Customer, CRM, Integration, Force.com, Service Cloud 2, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-11-23
- CRM Association-Netherlands Rocks Het Huis!
- I'm in love with Amsterdam....no wait, I love it but I'm not in love....no, hold on, I like it a lot, but I'm not in love, nor do I love it. The Theory.... Interestingly enough (to me at least and who else am I really writing this for...
- Tags: Car, Amsterdam, Conference, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-11-16
- Can the Economist entirely be trusted?
- Disagree."but the alternatives to a good cloud provider are far too flaky to be worth considering."The only thing I see in this sentence and the article it links to is worshiping your cloud religion.IMHO, it's a tool. Use it where it makes sense, don't use it where it doesn't make...
- Tags: cloud computing, Virtualization, software world, TRANSPARENCY
- Discussion threads 2009-11-15
- Enterprise 2.0: What do we know today about moving our organizations into the 21st century?
- Enterprise 2.0 ROIDion - An extremely interesting article. As a vendor of social software, we're often exposed to an intriguing mix of the trends that you've outlined above. In particular, we've noticed that those common internal advocates you mentioned (e.g. corporate communications, knowledge management) are already sold on the benefits...
- Tags: Sales force management, Enterprise 2.0, E 2.0
- Discussion threads 2009-11-13
- Friday Challenge: What's your take on OS/browser market share trends?
- Firefox is taking over...With Firefox the days of vendor lock-in withIE required are over, like banking sites theyare cross-platform as they should be.I use CentOS/Fedora/RHEL and use I am able todo all of my job functions and use any applicationI want without the fear of security holes andthreats from a...
- Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, COMPANIES, Other Countries, Web browser, Friday Challenge, operating system, Mozilla Firefox, browser market share, security hole, security, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-11-13
- CCHIT going on almost as if nothing happened
- Republicans up to no good again.Another buck for doing nothing.CCHIT HappensThats it.We bought a package that was CCHIT certified, one of our requirements.We had plenty of other requirements for an EHR, but they wanted to make sure it was certified by someone else just incase the goverment came up with...
- Tags: CCHIT, eHR
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- Microsoft delivers new Zune HD games; Twitter and Facebook still to come
- RE: Microsoft delivers new Zune HD games; Twitter and Facebook still to comOH BOYY!! CHECKERS??!! OMFG AWESOME!!Message has been deleted.can't you sample tonnes of music for free on radio?broadcast or on internet radio if you want to listen to very specific song.. or just sample for free via internet downloads.....
- Tags: Twitter Inc., Facebook, pickup truck, Microsoft Zune, flaw, Apple iTunes, Microsoft Corp., radio, Apple iTunes Music Store, Apple Inc., game
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- Mac OS 10.6.2 breaks hackintoshes
- Author's views please ...... does the ZDNET author of this post care to say:1. Whether the 'hack' in 'hackintosh' is morally acceptable and/or legal?2. Whether there is any merit in Psystar's case that OSX is tied to Apple hardware? i.e. the vendor makes it a condition of purchasing the OS...
- Tags: Desktops, Linux, Operating systems, Apple Mac OS, Apple Inc., Mac OS 10.6.2, PC, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- Friday Challenge: What can your OS do that mine can't?
- My OS can break 5% global desktop market share!Sorry Mac and Linux! :PBetter/Larger Hardware/Software SelectionMy operating system Windows has a better and larger library of available applications, and a larger ecosystem of supported hardware.Why do you insist in behaving as an idiot?Hope what they're paying you is enough to compensate...
- Tags: Operating systems, MSF, OS Installed, operating system, Ubuntu, Linux, software
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- Amazon launches relational database service: Think MySQL in the cloud
- Three reasons this is a bad paradigm...Security, security and...let's see, what was that other thing...oh yeah, security. The comment "enterprise customers are likely to take their time moving sensitive data into Amazon?s RDS effort" should be nominated for the understatement of the year award. What's more likely is...
- Tags: Databases, Web servers, Storage, Web site development, RDBMS, Amazon.com Inc., sensitive data, database, MySQL
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- Windows 7: An impressive upgrade
- Windows 7 review:Windows 7 review: 'New' OS is just Vista with small changesPerformance enhancements"We have already determined that W7 won't make your computer run any faster. And if you are upgrading from XP, it might run slightly slower, just as with Vista. ......But it's not really anything new. We hate...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, impressive upgrade, operating system, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- Ubuntu, SUSE, Fedora Linux updates prepped as Win7 release nears
- another nail in M$ coffinThe upcomming failure of windoze 7 and M$ going under will not leave the users exposed.Linux is here to save the day!Wrong Answerhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/windows-7-breaks-amazon-uk-pre-order-volume-record-ousts-harry/DesperationGuess it shows how desperate Vista users are to get onto Win7Windows 7 a failure?Didn't it already surpass Linux's market share? BEFORE it's GA?Failure...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, SuSE, Linux, Fedora Project, Microsoft Corp., Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- EvriChart: A Linux Success Story
- Tony Maro, CIO of EvriChart, a hospital records management and archiving business, successfully migrated his company's Windows-based line of business document management extranet application and his employees' 40-odd Windows-based desktops to a 100 percent Linux-based server and desktop infrastructure. Jason Perlow interviews Tony Maro, CIO...
- Tags: Desktop, Hospital, Imaging, Health Care, Server, Computer, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Document Management, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Demand this from software vendors
- I was getting a briefing last week from a software executive. We got to a point in the conversation where the discussion was focusing on existing products. I moved the conversation to a different space, though. If you're getting a pitch from a vendor, you should move the conversation, too!...
- Tags: Software, Vendor, Customer, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Tools & Techniques, Sales, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Gartner in the dock over Magic Quadrant
- Persona Non GartnerOver the years, I've watched, participated in researching and experienced the results of the positing of Gartner's disclosures. My analysis is as follows:On any given subject at any given time, there is a .90 probability that the opinions expressed by Gartner will be either flat out wrong or...
- Tags: Gartner Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- Two Views of the Software Market
- A Bridge Too Far? In a blogger briefing this week at SAP’s TechEd, SAP CTO, Vishal Sikka, drew a chart of the application software market and what new areas of technology are of interest to the firm. I’ve tried to reproduce his freehand drawing into the following...
- Tags: ERP, Vishal Sikka, S-curve, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- IAB to FTC: Rescind blogger rules
- Completely self-servingBy this rationale, why does anyone ever have to disclose anything? You can apply this logic to traditional media as well. Afraid to admit in the blog that you got the stuff you rave about was free? The real impact is it opens a channel for the vendor to...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, blogger, free speech, traditional media, blog, blogging, Interactive Advertising Bureau, FTC
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- Customer Intimacy wins in SAP SI's and Channel Partners
- Yesterday, several bloggers at the SAP TechEd conference in Phoenix had an opportunity to speak with Zia Yusuf, EVP, Global Ecosystem & Partner Group of SAP. I asked Zia what characteristics typify the best SAP partners. He rattled off five qualities that the best systems integrators and...
- Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Firm, Channel Partner, Business Services, Strategy, Supply Chain, Product Development, Management, Business Operations, Research & Development, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- Microsoft needs to come clean over Sidekick/Danger disaster
- LOL! And some said you were covering this up.http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12554-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=70257&messageID=1348275&tag=content;col1RE: Microsoft needs to come clean over Sidekick/Danger disasterMy money goes to TMobile, not Microsoft. This should fall 100% on the shoulders of TMobile!RE: Microsoft needs to come clean over Sidekick/Danger disasterWell who-ever is respossible for this stupid act(upgrade without backups? wtf...)...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Storage, Microsoft Corp., Sidekick/Danger disaster, Sidekick/Danger, Microsoft Needs, Hitachi Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
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