I am doing a few media briefs prior to SugarCon, and a lot of journalists are asking questions about open source, the economy, and whether or not more companies are looking to transition to new application models in this current climate.
It made me think – and really, while the economy is certainly a wake-up call, [...]

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In many ways, the Super Bowl has reached the pinnacle of advertising and marketing, both in terms of price ($3 million for a 30-second spot), and now in terms of multi-channel marketing. Interactive ads, new search strategies, Web-only outtakes, and social networking are all part of the new array that marketers have at their disposal [...]

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My associate pointed me to this clip of SugarCon keynote speaker Michael Lewis, here talking about how most people should worry less about the state of the financial world:

He makes some great points…namely that a lot of “the powers that be” try and make us feel stupid. This is the same in finance as in [...]

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I just got off the phone with a partner of ours, Performance Advantage, which is doing some great work in the Canadian call center market, leveraging Sugar On-Demand to help smaller businesses gain access to enterprise-caliber functionality via some true cloud computing environments.
Among other topics, we discussed where we see the future of the call [...]

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Just an advance heads up – we have set up a SugarCon Twitter account Sugarcon2009 – If you cannot attend and would like updates, or plan on attending and want to make comments that we can bring to the blog, etc. or just want to get some random tweets from various Sugar peeps – please [...]

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I keep promising myself I am NOT going to spend too much time in the blogosphere and actually get everything done that I need to do before SugarCon kicks off on Monday.
But of course – I find myself spending most of the morning going through blog comments, and skimming over my Google alerts.
In one of [...]

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The way in which businesses manufacture and transport finished goods to markets will forever play an important role in how and when they conduct business with the ever-growing number of consumers. As the number of consumers increase and economies continue to globalize, businesses are consistently looking for ways to stay profitable, i.e. long-term contracts, fixed [...]

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Larry Dignan posted an interesting blog today about ROI for the deployment of enterprise applications.
He raises some interesting points, and I agree with him on the notion that too many businesses still deploy applications without having the common sense to accurately measure any return on investment. Setting a benchmark for success is a no-brainer for [...]

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I have taken a couple days to stew over some pretty interesting M&A deals in the tech sector that developed at the end of last week. I see the Autonomy/Interwoven as a simple situation where a large player in an (somewhat) established sector is looking to become a de facto giant. The content management tools [...]

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I just saw this announcement which talks about how Carpathia Hosting is looking to provide an “Integrated Hosting Package” which to me, means “Cloud Stack” of apps and services – including SugarCRM.
This is yet another testament to what the Cloud should be about – interoperability, flexibility and portability. No one wants their cloud enviornment to [...]

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