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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.  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
- HP's Hurd: Cloud computing has its limits (especially when you face 1,000 attacks a day)
- HP CEO Mark Hurd is big on cloud computing, but acknowledges its limits. For instance, HP "wouldn't put anything material in nature outside the firewall." The message: The cloud has its place, but there's a vast difference between private and public computing. [caption id="attachment_26254" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Credit:...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Attack, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Virtualization, Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Supply Chain Planning 4.2.4.6 (Windows)
- SCP 4.0 has been helping companies reduce capital tied up in inventory, accurately forecast procurement needs, and enhance vendor managed inventory VMI relationships for more than 10 years. Using SCP, businesses are also saving money using full-container shipments through optimized manufacturing planning. Businesses in 15 countries have been reaping the...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Microsoft Windows, Procurement, Forecasting, Jada Management Systems, SCP 4.0, Sales Force Management, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Purchasing & Procurement, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations
- Software downloads 2009-09-27
- Automation 2.0
- Yesterday the AMR team met with Rockwell Automation's senior leadership group including CEO Keith Nosbusch to spend an entire day digging into the trends and challenges in today's manufacturing automation market. Nosbusch is a graduate of University of Wisconsin's electrical and computer engineering program, and a 35 year veteran of...
- Tags: Automation, Nosbusch, Manufacturing, Kevin O'Marah
- Blog posts 2009-05-16
- Congratulations Marc… The next $billion will be harder
- In 10 years, salesforce.com founder and CEO Marc Benioff has turned CRM-as-a-service into a $1B business with 55,400 customers. Both numbers are impressive. It took SAP more than 35 years and an acquisition of Business Objects to cross the 50,000 customer mark (BOBJ pushed them over 80,000). ...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., Sales Force, Siebel Systems Inc., SAP AG, CRM, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales, Emerging Technologies, Bruce Richardson
- Blog posts 2009-03-17
- Do We Really NEED CRM 2.0?
- (I'm taking a weird or, to make that more polite, unusual step and publishing this at both PGreenblog and ZDNET because it impacts both audiences. Honestly, I'm not being lazy. I swear....okay, maybe a little) For the last several weeks, I've been thinking over what CRM 2.0...
- Tags: Customer, CRM, CRM 2.0, Marketing Claim, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-03-06
- The Future of IT in a Flat World: CMDBs, Automation, and the IT Value Chain
- Using automation, IT operations can emulate the domestic supply chain's cost containment successes. At the same time, by recognizing that its own struggles are mirrored in the global supply chain, IT can grasp--from a business perspective--the technological capabilities it must have now to strategically move into the next generation of...
- Tags: Information Technology, CMDB, Automation, ASG Software Solutions, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2008-10-13
- Smart Turn: blowing up inventory management cost
- I recently spent time noodling around SmartTurn an on-demand inventory and warehouse management application. I also spoke at length with Jim Burleigh, CEO and Richard Yim, VP products and marketing. Inventory and warehouse management is at once complex and costly, especially for tier 2 companies that have...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Inventory Management, Pricing Strategy, SmartTurn, Richard Yim, Pricing, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Marketing Research, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- Automating Complete PO Document Packages for Procure-to-Pay Performance with ERP Systems
- Intelligent automation technology offers businesses the ability to eliminate the inefficiencies of manual document management within the purchasing process, including automated bundling of purchasing document packages, validation workflow for approval of purchases, notification of delivery status, archiving for ready access to purchasing documents and outbound delivery in the formats and...
- Tags: ERP System, Esker S.A., ERP, Esker DeliveryWare, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- White papers 2008-09-18
- Don't trust Google with your data
- Don't trust Google with your dataNo, I don't trust Google BUT...I trust Google more than I trust me. There is a bigger chance that I'll lose my own data than Google will. I don't have the energy nor do I choose to spend the money to constantly backup all of...
- Tags: Backups, cloud computing, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-06
- The problem with Forrester's $4.6 billion prediction
- Forrester has released a report indicating that Enterprise 2.0 spending will reach $4.6 billion by 2013. ( I would offer a link but the one I have is broken.) I'm uncomfortable with the report though it hints at some interesting developments. Any prediction is based upon the...
- Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Forrester Research Inc., Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- hakia licenses OntoSem technology to third parties
- New York-based semantic search company hakia will today use the Search Engine Strategies Conference to announce that their Ontological Semantic technology, OntoSem, is available for licensing. Illinois-based RiverGlass, Inc. is the first licensee, and will work to enhance their existing real-time analytics solutions with OntoSem. I spoke...
- Tags: Lexicon, Ontology, OntoSem, RiverGlass Inc., Hakia, Semantic Web, Strategy, Internet, Management, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
- Austrian Trading Company for Fixings Accelerates Order Process by Almost One Day
- Wurth wanted greater automation and data exchange for its order management system. With a beta-version Microsoft solution in mind, the company looked for an IT services organisation and the latest business technology. Wurth needed a solution that would speed up the supply chain. Wurth turned to HP Services to help...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft BizTalk Server, Web Services, Application Servers, Middleware, EDI, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- SE BOM Extractor 3.12.19 (Windows)
- SolidEdge Automation Tool that easily extracts Bill of Materials from SolidEdge files for easy integration with 3rd party software, like ERP and SCM systems. Integrate SolidEdge Bill of Materials with your ERP, accounting, supply chain management systems, CNC equipment, catalogs, websites, assembly instructions and other printed materials. Version 3.12.19 features:...
- Tags: Supply Chain, ERP, Microsoft Windows, SCM, Xpress Software, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Software
- Software downloads 2008-01-19
- Med.Con Introduces New Paradigms for Cement Distribution With Integrated IT Infrastructure
- Med.Con wanted to support an integrated, flexible, secure, high-performance management system and optimize supply chain to establish direct, long-term relationships with customers and suppliers. The challenge was to accelerate business processes and improve operational efficiency through automation. The company implemented an information system, based on JD Edwards EnterpriseOne with support...
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Oracle Corp., Information Technology, High-performance, Med.Con, Leadership, Smart Cards, Management
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- Ten more ways SOA made a difference in 2007
- From planes to trains to phones to hotels, SOA played a key role in advancing many businesses in 2007. I culled several more working examples of where SOA made a difference over the past year from my SOA in Action Website over at ebizQ, which tracks SOA success stories. More...
- Tags: Airline, British Telecommunications, SOA, EasyFIDS, Marriott, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-12-27
- Amazon's Kindle: Much needed revolution or book industry power play?
- Like Apple's iPods and the iTunes Music Store iTMS from which they can so effortlessly acquire their content, the transparency of the automation and infrastructure that makes Amazon's Kindle work so effortlessly with the Amazon.com Web site is a marvel in terms of the user experience. But the same...
- Tags: Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com Inc., Consumer Electronics, David Berlind, Digital Media, Digital Music, E-books, Internet, Personal Technology, Podcasts, Quality Solutions
- Blog posts 2007-12-04
- Ketera tames the supply chain's long tail
- One area of opportunity for SaaS vendors that can help them differentiate themselves from their on-premises rivals is the ability to offer services that combine software with other shared resources. It's often the case that software alone falls short of a complete solution to a business pain point, and needs...
- Tags: Long Tail, Supply Chain, Supplier, Ketera, Supplier Connect, Channel Management, Marketing, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2007-10-10
- Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 MOM 2005 MP 03.6.1404.0000 (Windows)
- With the introduction of BizTalk Server in 2000, Microsoft sparked a revolution in the integration industry proving that integration and process automation technology didn’t have to be prohibitively expensive or hard to use. Today, over 7,000 organizations rely on BizTalk Server to integrate systems and automate processes across global supply...
- Tags: Microsoft BizTalk Server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., BizTalk Server 2006 R2, Web Services, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Software downloads 2007-10-05
- SAP's Business ByDesign go to market
- SAP's Business ByDesign go to marketSAP Consultants - The Midmarket FactorThis article by Sam Sliman, president for Optimal Solutions Integrations, Inc., recently posted on the Optimal SAP Blog [http://www.optimalsapblog.blog-city.com] provides a pretty insightful perspective on what SAP's aggressive midmarket push might mean for SAP consultants:SAP Consultants - The Midmarket FactorSAP's...
- Tags: Operational planning, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), SMB/SME, Enterprise software, SAP AG, SAP BBD
- Discussion threads 2007-10-03
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