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AMS Grows Its Business With siebel crm ondemand for Sales

Advanced Material Solutions AMS provides a wide variety of programs for electronics manufacturers and distributors, including warehousing, turnkey, kitting, purchasing, and disposition of electronics inventory. AMS needed a sales solution that would help the company efficiently and effectively grow revenues. AMS selected Siebel CRM OnDemand to help the company manage...

Tags: Siebel CRM OnDemand, On-demand, Siebel Systems Inc., Advanced Material Solutions, Sales Strategy, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Sales, Software

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InFact Reduces Sales Cycle Time by 15 Percent Using siebel crm ondemand

The InFact Group is a global technology consulting organization with a world-class portfolio of customers in Europe, the United States, and the Indian subcontinent. The challenge was to replace the multitude of legacy systems it relied on to manage a growing number of increasingly complex customer relationships. InFact deployed Siebel...

Tags: Siebel CRM OnDemand, On-demand, Sales Opportunity, Siebel Systems Inc., Sales Cycle, Infact, InFact Group, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Sales, Software

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Improve Ad Sales Effectiveness With siebel crm ondemand

Watch this Web seminar replay, which will demonstrate how Siebel CRM OnDemand can help you: Increase lead conversion rates through improved efficiency in distributing and managing leads and opportunities. Maximize sales productivity through tools that minimize administrative tasks and maximize selling time. Gain real-time insight into your business and customers...

Tags: Siebel CRM OnDemand, Advertisement, On-demand, Siebel Systems Inc., Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Software

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Extending Sales, Marketing, and Service Effectiveness With Hosted CRM

Siebel CRM OnDemand is the most advanced hosted CRM solution available today. This webcast explains how Siebel CRM OnDemand can provide a new deployment option to extend your CRM strategy and maximize the value of your existing Siebel deployment.

Tags: Siebel CRM OnDemand, Hosted CRM, Siebel Systems Inc., Sales, CRM, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing

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Additional Resources

Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature

There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...

Tags: Web, Industry, Mashup, JackBe, Lotus Mashups, MashupHub, Mindtouch, Itasca, Serena, Mashup Exchange, SnapLogic, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Does Microsoft really need to diversify into consumer products?

Watching Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates go through the paces during his last Microsoft CEO Summit keynote on May 14, I couldn't help but ponder again why Microsoft thinks it needs to be both a business and a consumer software vendor. From May 13 to 15, Microsoft officials...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Tech Innovation, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Workday lands big Flextronics deal

Flextronics will install Workday's on-demand human capital management software for 200,000 employees. According to InformationWeek, Workday beat out SAP and Oracle for Flextronics business in what Mary Hayes Weier described as tipping point deal for SaaS. Workday also won a 26,000 employee deal with Chiquita. ...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Workday, Flextronics International Ltd., Software As A Service (SaaS), Human Capital, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Zoho's login gambit: It works

Zoho on Wednesday said that anyone with a Yahoo or Google account--basically everybody--can use the company's on-demand applications without creating a new account. The gambit worked on me. I perused a few Zoho demos before, but didn't get around to creating a full account. But since my Yahoo and Google...

Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Zoho, Chances, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-14

SOA market passes $2 billion mark, whatever that means

Research and Markets has just issued its latest assessment of the SOA market, and estimates the worldwide SOA market will grow from an estimated $2 billion in 2007 to more than $9 billion by 2014. What, exactly, is the "SOA market?" The market research firm defines it...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-05-13

The application interface problem

The application interface problemKISSIn the early 90s, I was able to work with these kinds of users and design an interface. I worked at GenDyn and we had a computer room staffed with Computer Operators. These people were not computer experts - they were sometimes known as "tape hangers". In...

Tags: Backups, Learnability, application interface problem, learnability, tape, discoverability

Discussion threads 2008-05-12

The application interface problem

I believe that almost any programming language can be used to build almost any kind of user interface, but that the closer the user interface is to the assumptions built into the language, the simpler and more efficient this component of the overall application will be. More importantly, I believe...

Tags: Application, User Interface, Tool, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-12

Interview: IBM Cognos chief Rob Ashe

Interview: IBM Cognos chief Rob AsheIBM is completely missing the SaaS BI trendI wasn't surprised by Rob's comment that "BI doesn’t lend itself to SaaS" (though I suspect that the folks from Cognos' Celequest acquisition were caught a bit off guard.) But, I strongly disagree. The notion that...

Tags: Sales strategy, Software as a Service (SaaS), Sales force management, Tools & Techniques, SaaS BI, sales, software-as-a-service, Cognos Inc., IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-09

SAP: Security keeps it off Symbian, Windows Mobile, iPhone for now

SAP: Security keeps it off Symbian, Windows Mobile, iPhone for nowWTF is SAPC'mon with acronym overload on max, how hard would it have been to explain who or what SAP is?RE: SAP: Security keeps it off Symbian, Windows Mobile, iPhone for nowAbsolutely, all acronyms should be defined the first time...

Tags: Operating systems, Handhelds, Advertising & Promotion, Right Now IT, SAP AG, Symbian Inc., Microsoft Windows Mobile, Apple iPhone, WTF, mobile, Microsoft Windows, security

Discussion threads 2008-05-07

Interview: IBM Cognos chief Rob Ashe

Rob Ashe, general manager of IBM's business intelligence and performance management unit, has had a busy year. He sold his company, Cognos, to IBM for $5 billion and has stayed on as a member of IBM's leadership team. Ashe's role day to day hasn't changed too much....

Tags: Cognos Inc., Software-as-a-service, IBM Corp., Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Business Intelligence, Software As A Service (SaaS), Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Data Management, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-07

The four horsemen of SaaS

Taleo's acquisition of Vurv, announced today, is a clear play by the SaaS vendor for breakout leadership of the people management sector — one of the hottest segments of the enterprise SaaS landscape, populated by fast-growing startups such as recent Nasdaq entrant SuccessFactors along with privately held Authoria, Cornerstone OnDemand,...

Tags: Revenue, Acquisition, Software-as-a-service, Taleo Corp., Vurv, Software As A Service (SaaS), Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Emerging Technologies, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-05-06

Is Enterprise Software Recession-Proof?

Amidst the PR blitz and the blizzard of 1:1 meetings that constitute the foreground experience of SAP's Sapphire user conference this week (see Larry's coverage here, and Dennis' coverage here), there's an interesting back story emerging. If you look at SAP's last quarter, and believe the formal and informal guidance...

Tags: SAP AG, Enterprise Software, Software, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-05-06

RIM's Balsillie: 'Not religious' about form factors; B2B the company's core

The Research in Motion vs. Apple smartphone face-off makes for a good story, but the companies present an interesting business strategy question: Is it better to start in the enterprise and then go consumer or vice versa? In an interview with me at SAP Sapphire all resources...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., SAP AG, Wireless, B2C, B2B, Smart Phones, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-06

SAP: Security keeps it off Symbian, Windows Mobile, iPhone for now

SAP has forged an agreement with Research in Motion to run its customer relationship management software on the BlackBerry platform. Just don't expect SAP to roll out to other platforms anytime soon. In an interview with the Enterprise Irregular blogging group Monday, Bob Stutz, SAP's executive vice...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, SAP AG, Microsoft Windows, Symbian Inc., Security, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-05

Upvise Business Contacts for Windows Mobile (cab)

Mobile CRM has never been so simple. Enter a new contact, company, task or opportunity on your phone or Web account, and it becomes instantly available to all users in your company. On your mobile, find a contact quickly in the list by typing the first few letters of the...

Tags: Phone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Contact, Microsoft Windows, Unyverse, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-05-05

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online

If you're looking to take your customer relationship management to the next level, we invite you to try Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online for 30 days free. Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online is a groundbreaking new hosted solution that gives you Microsoft Dynamics CRM capabilities without the investment in IT infrastructure and...

Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Corp., CRM, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, Microsoft Dynamics Live, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software

Software downloads 2008-05-04