Salesforce.com in Gartner, Web Suite, Loyalty Lab
The news as of the first coffee this morning, and the music is a nice Sonny Rollins album for a cool, slightly overcast day, Saxophone Colossus. Some critics call this album a great jazz classic, that may be, First Coffee doesn't know jazz well enough to say, but if so it's one of a handful of jazz albums praised by critics which also happens to be enjoyable listening for the more casual jazz fan, as most critical darling jazz albums are unlistenable exercises in musical deconstruction:
Single Question Interview: David Merrill of Tacola
If you’re not familiar with Siftables, watch the TED Talk. Peter Merholz: At TED, you demonstrated Siftables, small “smart” blocks that can interact with one another in interesting ways. What opportunities does Siftables provide in overcoming...
Read more about Single Question Interview: David Merrill of Tacolab...Strategy Definition or Strategy Execution…
Which is more important? It’s a bit of a chicken vs. egg argument, but it’s fair to say that both are critical to driving positive financial results. Put it this way, if defining strategy explains 15% of a company’s financial performance then...
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One interesting question that came up this week was ‘when is it right to change my CRM reseller?’ To position this a bit, a lot of CRM packages, Microsoft CRM being a good example, are sold through resellers and implementation partners rather than...
Read more about Do I stay or do I go? - when to change your CRM reseller......Why implementing CRM may or may not be easy....
I was asked this week what the pit-falls were of implementing CRM technology. This is the sort of question that can tempt you into gushing out a long list of potential hazards, but, when you come to think about it, for many, maybe most people there...
Read more about Why implementing CRM may or may not be easy.......Adding search power to public data
Earthquakes are not the only thing that can shake Silicon Valley. After the dot-com bubble burst back in 2000 the unemployment rate ofSanta Clara county went up to 9.1%. During the last couple of months, it has gone up again: ...
Read more about Adding search power to public data...Can Google Bring Enterprises Together?
Last week marked the official launch of Google Sites, a web-based collaboration service that has been lovingly dubbed by some as the "Sharepoint killer." It lets you pull together information from across Google Apps to create customized company...
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