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- Handicapping the Fall Enterprise Software Race: SAP vs. Oracle vs. Microsoft
- It's leapfrog time in enterprise software land, and the next frog to jump will be Oracle, which is hosting industry analysts next week in Redwood Shores and then hosting the entire world at its much-too-massive Open World Conference in San Francisco the following week. Oracle is...
- Tags: Strategy, Small And Medium Enterprise, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Smb/Sme, Enterprise Software, Software, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Webcast: Growing Your Business with CRM
- Smart business owners and executives already understand the importance of customer service to the long-term success of their business, but many fall short when it comes to effective customer relationship management, or CRM. To learn proven strategies for getting customer service right, join Growing Your Business...
- Tags: Strategy, Customer Service, Webcast, CRM, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Product Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing
- Webcasts 2008-09-04
- Breaking: Oracle's Andersen gone, where now for Fusion and vertical plays?
- I have seen an internal Oracle email that confirms persistent rumors that Jespers Andersen, SVP Application Development at Oracle has left for Cisco. The email says: "You may well have heard today, the rumour mill has been very busy that Jesper has resigned from Oracle. ...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Jesper, Team Management, Sales Strategy, E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Sales Force Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Management, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- The End of SaaS? Or Just the End of Hype?
- Lawson CEO Harry Debes started -- or rather continued -- a brouhaha that's getting some pixels in the blogosphere, and his position is worth commenting on for both its courage foolhardy and its excess hyperbolically so. According to Harry, the SaaS market will collapse in two years time, due to...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Customer Choice, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- SaaS market will 'collapse' in two years
- Lawson's CEO, Harry Debes says SaaS is the third attempt at "on demand" in his lifetime and predicts it will take the same path as the first two--to oblivion. Lawson's CEO, Harry Debes, doesn't believe in software-as-a-service SaaS. ...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Software as a service, SaaS, software, Lawson, Asia, Victoria Ho, ZDNet Asia
- News items 2008-08-28
- Zoho Share(point?)
- If there's one thing I really like it is what I term 'self evident' applications. These are apps that have a clear purpose and which are blindingly simple to use. Zoho Share falls squarely in that category. The company prefers to think of...
- Tags: People Area, Bookmarks, RSS, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Internet, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Salesforce acquires InStranet; Will take it SaaS and better target call centers
- Salesforce.com said Wednesday that it will acquire InStranet, which provides knowledge management software for call centers, and integrate its technology with its existing CRM customer service and support offering. Simply put, Salesforce.com is acquiring traditional enterprise software for $31.5 million and turning it into a service in an effort to...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., InStranet Inc., Software-as-a-service, Falcione, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- SAP BusinessOne v Microsoft: SAP wins for VARs
- SAP BusinessOne v Microsoft: SAP wins for VARsVARs and SAPSAP Business One - great product. But the SAP to Business One customers interface doesn't exist - its all via VARs and the quality of some of them is a bit questionable. I'm sure SAP will need to do something on...
- Tags: Retail, Channel management, Microsoft Corp., value-added reseller, SAP AG
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- An iGeneration view of TLAs
- Over on Enterprise Alley, I've been joined by Zack Whittaker. Zack's a computer science student so is ideal for providing a fresh pair of eyes on the world of enterprise application startups. I was interested to get his take on three letter acronyms - TLAs - something upon which the...
- Tags: computer science, erp, enterprise application, zack, enterprise resource planning (erp), enterprise software, software, dennis howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Flypaper: flash presentations for the rest of us
- Last week I took a peek at the unfortunately named Flypaper Pro, a product that allows the creation of high quality Flash content but without all the programming skills that are normally associated with this kind of thing. I say unfortunately named because for me, it...
- Tags: Co-founder, Programmer, Programming, Flypaper Pro, Development Tools, Financial Planning, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Finance, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Sysqon Custom CRM Basic (exe)
- Sysqon Custom CRM allows users to manage their customer and product information, make forms, bills and business documents, manage their tasks, and review sales reports. We provide custom-made service for parts of the features such as product composer, it is a simple but useful function that speed up forms making...
- Tags: crm, sysqon solutions, sysqon custom crm, sales strategy, sales force management, sales
- Software downloads 2008-08-07
- SuccessFactors plugs Google Apps into HCM
- Following on from its previous link-up with SaaS CRM giant Salesforce.com, Google has teamed up with SaaS talent management vendor SuccessFactors to bring its cloud-based collaboration suite into the human capital management HCM arena. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, SuccessFactors Inc., Integration, Human Capital, Cloud Computing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Why open source fails application security tests
- Why open source fails application security testsMakes SenseMost FOSS is built by people with a passion to make something important to them. Implementing comprehensive security is not a fun task to do when developing software.RE: Why open source fails application security testsYou could have summed it up by saying that...
- Tags: application security test, application security, open source, security
- Discussion threads 2008-08-01
- Gruppo Venco Revolutionizes CRM Program With Customer Centric Solution
- Gruppo Venco wanted to adopt a Customer Relationship Management CRM solution that consolidates all customer information in a single dependable, constantly up-to-date source and rationalizes and integrate data in all the Group's systems, including 13,000 VAT local tax codes in the company's enterprise resource planning system. The challenge was to...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., ERP, CRM, Gruppo Venco, Sales Strategy, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Taxes, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Free Trade, Sales, Software, Financial Planning, Finance, Marketing
- Case studies 2008-08-01
- Intacct reports record growth: the analysis
- The other week, I started compiling a spreadsheet that shows the relative pricing for SaaS accounting style applications. It's not meant to be sophisticated but provide an indication of the range of solutions and pricing models offered in this segment of the SaaS market. To my eternal shame, I omitted...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Solution, Finance, Pricing Strategy, Analysis, Intacct, Software As A Service (SaaS), Pricing, Cloud Computing, Marketing Research, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- News to know: DNS flaw; Amazon; Microsoft shakeup; Facebook
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Researchers borrow from Google PageRank for network defense service Attack code published for DNS flaw Nate McFeters: |)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison iPhone vulnerable to phishing,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, DNS, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Flaw, Game Players, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Entellium puts a video game spin on CRM with a desktop RIA
- Entellium puts a video game spin on CRM with a desktop RIAGreat news!Back in the day, practical folks used to talk well about Volvos. They said that Volvos were safe, reliable, family cars. There were however not many takers. People instead swooned over sexier, more stylish cars. This is precisely...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows, Java development tools, Desktops, video game, video, game, CRM, Web browser, iTunes client, Entellium, Apple iTunes, Sun Java Studio Creator, desktop, rich Internet application
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Entellium puts a video game spin on CRM with a desktop RIA
- Yesterday I sat down and talked with Entellium, an on-demand CRM company that has recently gone away from a purley browser-based model and moved into a desktop smart client application. In doing so they saw a big increase in conversion numbers and the customers have responded well to having the...
- Tags: Entellium, Sun Java Studio Creator, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Rich Internet Application, Video Game, Video, CRM, Desktop Application, Games, Desktops, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Hardware, Marketing, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Unintended Consequences and the Future of Maintenance Revenue: SAP Jettisons TomorrowNow
- When Shai Agassi called me in early 2005, he asked me a loaded question: How would I respond if SAP decided to take the fight to Oracle by providing third party maintenance for Oracle's recently acquired PeopleSoft customers? I told him it would be an incredibly aggressive move, but that...
- Tags: Revenue, Maintenance, Oracle Corp., Customer, SAP AG, TomorrowNow, Software As A Service (SaaS), Public Relations, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
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