eBay Sellers Alliance not high on Skype as sales tooldidnt see that coming....ebay has always worked via email... why change that.. alot of these high volume people are not actual businesses, but very busy people who needed income.Skype = interruptions at all hours.... DUH!The advantage of eBay is that a...
When eBay bought Skype for what could ultimately prove to be more than $4 billion, eBay CEO Meg Whitman said a key motivator was the capability of eBay sellers and buyers to use Skype to discuss items up for bid. In other words, "hey, I might want to bid on...
In the past, sales representatives who work at Dell call centers used as many as 40 different information systems to understand customers and meet their needs, which limited their ability to deliver an optimal customer experience. To address that challenge, Dell built the Integrated Dell Desktop IDD, a smart client...
Equinox Fitness operates 38 high-end fitness clubs across the United States and has grown 400 percent in the last five years. To continue its rapid growth, Equinox needed to modernize its sales process to improve lead management, sales forecasting and closing rates. Working with a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Equinox...
In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...
Written expressly for visual artists, vBook is an all-round tool available for Mac and PC that automates all information management tasks. vBook includes a database type structure that provides works, contacts, sales and expenses management, mail and press archiving and many more. It includes mail and email merge feature, which...
APS combines multi currency client/server multilingual accounting software and stock control with Point of Sale features and deferent types of transactions such as Cost Centers, Journal Entries, Receipt & Payment Vouchers, Printing customized cheques and wide range of reports and a complete Stock Control features such as item production, Item...
After last week's announcement of SharePoint 2010 by Microsoft, with a scheduled arrival date of second quarter 2010, Jive Software announced their 'Social Business Software 4' yesterday at their San Francisco 'Jiveworld' event. It was interesting to contrast the huge Vegas Microsoft unveiling...
IBM on Tuesday launched a mashup service for its Cognos 8 business intelligence suite. The offering, dubbed IBM Cognos 8 Mashup Service, is an application programming interface API that can expose content from Cognos 8 as a Web service. That corporate data can then be used in...
No wonder they're successfulThey have a process, they watch actual humans use the product, and accept feedback.RE: SharePoint: The team that makes the donutsAs a long time SharePoint consultant my impression is that the SharePoint team is totally out of touch with enterprise customers. SharePoint 2010 is the same old...
Their losses will continue, and it's not because of a bad economyThe company said that there was some sign of an improving economy and that fourth quarter losses should be lower than in the most recent quarter.That's some good spin. However, their losses and that of the MSM started...
3 Words for you...Windows Live Essentials...Saves on bloat?It was nothing to do with that. Microsoft have said that they unbundled a lot of things from the OS build as it allowed for easier and more frequent updates.Good point.I use Hotmail but also use Live Mail on my own machines as...
Friday October 23rd will see Gartner argue a motion to dismiss a complaint by ZL Technologies Inc about the famed Gartner Magic Quadrant. According to court papers, Gartner will argue to dismiss based on First Amendment rights citing that the Magic Quadrant is not meant to represent statements of fact...
Discover Yascu Yet Another Screen Capture Utility in a tiny 100KB standalone executable. A lightweight multi-purpose business tool that allows users to effortlessly capture, present & illustrate screenshots for the classroom, business meetings, technical reviews, seminars, or even on the sales floor. With wireless presentation remote support, content from websites,...
The Stock Investment Guide SIG is a stock analysis tool for new and experienced investors. The software provides investors easy-to-use tools to analyze a company's earnings history to help forecast what earnings could be in five years. SIG can then tell the investor if the current PE ratio is in-line...
Do you ever go to meetings wanting to know more about the people who will be in attendence? Do you ever have some spare time while traveling and think it would be a great time to touch bases with a client or prospective client? If you answered yes to either...
Simply by visualizing where hot spots and cooling inefficiencies existed and moving to address them, Toyota Motor Sales USA has been able to reduce the electricity demand requirements it puts on its local utility. During a five-year pilot program with IBM and Southern California Edison, Toyota was...
readyAsset is an adaptable maintenance software or CMMS, for small companies and personal use. You will save twice by controlling preventive maintenance on your company's facilities and your own assets. readyAsset is for those who wants to keep working their assets and for people who sell services to customers and...
Real Time Visitor Tracking, Live Stats, Live Chat and Monitoring tool for your website. WhosOn displays live website visitor statistics showing current visitor and spider activity on your site, and provdes web traffic analytics reporting. In addition WhosOn acts as a live chat server allowing visitors to chat to operators...
RAIDaid has an easy to use interface that allows you to view disk arrays in all popular RAID formats. You can now plan your RAID setup and configuration even if you don't have a RAID!Benefits: Quickly determine the best configuration for your RAID system. Mix and match different RAID levels...
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