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- Siebel CRM On Demand Best Practice: Triangulated Forecasting
- The ability to develop an accurate sales forecast and effectively manage the sales pipeline can have a profound impact on a company's health. Too many organizations fail to realize, until it is too late, that they are going to miss their quarterly revenue targets. View this FREE brief from Oracle...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Quarterly Revenue, Siebel Systems Inc., Best Practice, CRM, Forecasting, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales
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- Figuring the value of software
- Shallow, trivial analysisThis is a shallow, trivial analysis. You claim that ERP is 143 times the cost per user than SuccessFactors. You offer no proof of this claim, using the list price of a perpetual license for ERP compared to your calculation for the average revenue per customer's employee for...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Software as a Service (SaaS), Enterprise software, Operational planning, software, ERP, SuccessFactors Inc., software-as-a-service
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- Verizon preps fourth quarter device barrage; Droid will 'stimulate demand'
- Verizon delivered a solid third quarter courtesy of its wireless business, which added 1.2 million net customers excluding acquisitions. The company also said it is set up for the fourth quarter with the launch of Research in Motion's Storm 2 on Wednesday, two Motorola Android devices and 12 other handsets....
- Tags: Revenue, Verizon Communications Inc., Wireless, Operational Accounting, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- MSFT versus GOOG - there's a big gap
- Countering Google[i]At the current rate of Google?s revenue growth, 7 per cent, it would take it more than 3 years to reach Microsoft?s current quarterly revenue.[/i]The above is true if you assume MS will have no growth over the next 3 years. I don't think that will be the case....
- Tags: Web browsers, Operational accounting, Strategy, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-23
- The maintenance renewal landscape
- A small and therefore statistically dubious quarterly CIO survey undertaken by Kash Rangan's team at Bank of America Merrill Lynch published earlier this month makes revealing reading. On the general spending front, it should be no surprise that the survey believes CIO's are under spending relative...
- Tags: Revenue, SAP AG, Maintenance Fee, Maintenance Revenue, Data Centers, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Team Management, Operational Accounting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
- AT&T cuts churn rate; Activates 3.2 million iPhones; Touts network upgrades
- AT&T's bet on the iPhone continues to work well. The company reported a better-than-expected third quarter, delivered post paid churn of 1.17 percent (a low for AT&T), activated 3.2 million iPhones and boosted data revenue by 33.6 percent. The telecom giant on Thursday delivered net income of...
- Tags: Network Upgrade, Apple iPhone, Network, AT&T Corp., Wireless, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Apple announces most profitable quarter ever: Q4 2009
- Apple announced record Mac and iPhone sales and its most profitable quarter ever in its Q4 2009 earnings conference call today. The Company posted revenue of $9.87 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.67 billion, or $1.82 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $7.9 billion...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Quarterly Profit, Apple Inc., Conference Call, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Apple's September quarter: Expect Mac unit upside
- Should be good...Mac sales will grow - 2.8 million isn't unreasonable although I think 2.6 million is more likely - the new iPod range will stimulate sales or at least keep them ticking over and the iPhone will have shifted at least 7 million units.Interestingly Nokia reported the same issue...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Digital music, Digital media, Operational accounting, Smart phones, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Zune, Zune HD, sales
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- AMD posts another quarterly loss
- If AMD can't produce...a CPU that will compare with Intel in performance they may not be around for a lot longer. They are so completely outclassed by Intel i7 that they aren't even in the ball park. It is hard to believe they can't come up with something ant closer.I...
- Tags: Processors, Semiconductors, quarterly loss, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., CPU
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- IBM delivers solid quarter, ups 2009 earnings outlook
- IBM delivered a solid third quarter that featured better-than-expected profit and revenue growth. The company also upped its earnings targets for 2009. IBM on Thursday reported third quarter net income of $3.1 billion, or $2.40 a share, on revenue of $23.6 billion, down 7 percent from a...
- Tags: Revenue, IBM Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- PC report: Apple pushing 10 percent share; Win 7 not expected to have big Q4 impact
- Apple is finally pushing toward double-digit market share with IDC reporting 9.4 percent share in the U.S. for the third quarter - an 11.8 percent jump from the same quarter a year ago - in its quarterly PC Tracker report. The natural assumption, of course, is that...
- Tags: PC, Apple Inc., International Data Corp., Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- Analysts interested in Intel's 2010, not just Q4
- The big buzz word in technology these days is efficiency. And even the quarterly earnings conference calls aren't immune from some change. Intel today altered the process a bit today when it issued its CFO's summary of the company's third quarter financials PDF ahead of the call, leaving more time...
- Tags: Analyst, Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Sales Strategy, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Sales, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-13
- NolaPro Free Accounting 4.0.4957 (Windows)
- NolaPro is a premium, completely free web-based suite. It includes AP, AR, Payroll, Order Tracking, Inventory Control, POS, B2B, and an Ecom Shopping Cart. Many plug-ins and add-ons are available such as a TimeClock, QB converter, development API, and a Hosting Manager revenue module for CPAs, VARs or consultants. Global...
- Tags: Revenue, Accounting, Microsoft Windows, Noguska, NolaPro, Operational Accounting, Retail, Channel Management, Financial Services, Finance, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-10-02
- Dell continues to bet on 2010 enterprise refresh cycle; Confirms working with China Mobile
- Dell's second quarter earnings were down 23 percent from a year ago, but topped Wall Street estimates. The company continues to bet on an enterprise refresh cycle in 2010 and sees ongoing signs of stabilization. The company on Thursday reported earnings of $472 million, or 24 cents...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., China Mobile Ltd., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- Why PayPal lost this customer over credit card fees policy
- I have this event coming up and will be be the funds-collector from people scattered across different locations. Initially, I thought of PayPal as the easy way to go. Boy, was I wrong. Today, thanks to a very poor experience with the company's Web...
- Tags: Payment, Credit Card, PayPal, eBay Inc., Sales Channel, Financial Services, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
- Prepping for an Earning Call â€" CFO/CEO must-do’s
- Several of the Enterprise Irregulars were floundering around last week trying to make sense of a SaaS vendorĂ¢â‚¬â„¢s recent financial results. Several serious rounds of conversations transpired as to how these earnings numbers could be understood but I think we need to start with the process of how execs get...
- Tags: Revenue, Accounting, Booking, CFO, CEO, Accrual, Operational Accounting, Software As A Service (SaaS), Finance, Emerging Technologies, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- BMC picks up MQSoftware, expands into middleware management
- BMC Software said Monday that it has acquired MQSoftware in a move that will expand its offering from mainframe and systems monitoring to middleware. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed statement. BMC positioned the move as a natural evolution to provide monitoring from the mainframe to the...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Mqsoftware Inc., Middleware, It Management, It service Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- Nvidia offers hope with Q2 results; Shares jump in after-hours
- Nvidia said Thursday that its second quarter loss had narrowed from a year ago and offered some hope that things may be turning around. For the quarter, the company reported a net loss of $105.3 million, or 19 cents per share, an improvement over the year ago loss of $120.9...
- Tags: NVidia Corp., Quarter, Cloud Computing, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-08-06
- Cisco's Q4: Things are looking better - but let's not get too happy just yet
- Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers said the company saw some return to normalcy during the fourth quarter specifically a "dramatic difference" from the large swings in order patterns from quarter to quarter that the company had been seeing during the year's first three quarters. But in a...
- Tags: John Chambers, Cisco Systems Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- Slide of the day: Laptop Hunter ads working?
- Slide of the day: Laptop Hunter ads working?The graph shows what they THOUGHT, not what they BOUGHTBased on the latest quarterly financials, I can't see that ANYTHING has hurt Apple's Mac sales very much! And how much was Windows revenue up? Whoops.RE: Slide of the day: Laptop Hunter ads working?AND...Microsoft...
- Tags: Notebooks, Laptop Hunter ad, Laptop Hunter, laptop computer, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2009-07-30
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