Posted in cloud computing, CRM, Microsoft, Open Source, SaaS, SugarCRM on Aug 4th, 2009 2 Comments »
SugarCRM and Microsoft have worked together for years now – and we’re actually seeing more than 60% of Sugar deployments on the MS stack. But today’s announcement around Sugar Community Edition now on Microsoft’s Web Gallery opens up a lot of cool opportunities for developers of all kinds. Microsoft has been making it easier and [...]
Posted in Application Design, cloud computing, Microsoft, Open Source, SaaS on Jul 14th, 2009 2 Comments »
Making a CRM solution fit your business processes, and not visa versa, has been a cornerstone of CRM implementations for well over 10 years, but the concept of leveraging an application’s base functionality as a platform into other capabilities has really taken off with cloud computing. There’s a strong difference between a SaaS vendor providing [...]
Posted in Apple, CRM, e-commerce, Microsoft, Open Source on May 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
I’m kind of thinking out loud (typing out loud?) here, but a blog post by Sav Rodrigues of at InfoWorld got me thinking. Savio’s post is about the experience factor of the Linux desktop OS: people tend to pay the extra $50 for a Windows Netbook he argues because they simply know what to expect [...]
Posted in CRM, Microsoft, SugarCRM on Mar 20th, 2009 No Comments »
The folks over at Microsoft CRM have been making some announcements this week. And most of the stuff, in my opinion, is a step in the right direction. The free add-ons are a handful of strong features that I can see a lot of people using. The notion of creating a value-based ecosystem is not [...]
Posted in Application Design, cloud computing, Microsoft, Open Source, Sun on Mar 19th, 2009 No Comments »
I’ve been reading up on Sun Microsystem’s latest offering in the cloud computing space, and taken in the context of Martin’s recent post on Microsoft’s take on the cloud, found some points that nicely compliment each other. Cloud computing still has a long way to go before it reaches the enterprise mainstream, but it’s obvious [...]
Posted in cloud computing, Conferences, Microsoft on Mar 17th, 2009 No Comments »
I just followed a long Twitter channel and some press and blog reports from a panel on Cloud Computing held at the South by Southwest festival in Austin Texas. (How cloud computing can find its way into what has traditionally been an indie music festival shows just how amorphous a concept cloud really is.) The [...]
Posted in Application Design, cloud computing, Microsoft, Open Source, salesforce.com on Feb 25th, 2009 1 Comment »
I’ve been blogging a lot lately about cloud computing and the role developers will play in their ability to make these emerging platforms more consumable. So when I saw that Ubuntu announced this week that cloud computing will be a cornerstone of its next release in October, it caught my attention. Ubuntu makes a compelling [...]
Posted in Application Design, Microsoft, SugarCRM on Jan 28th, 2009 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Microsoft, Random on Nov 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Just saw that Jeffry Yang will step-down as CEO of Yahoo – after what some observers see as two major failures as leader of the internet search pioneer. The general notion is that the departure means that a more operations-based chief will take charge, and help streamline Yahoo’s lines of business. But I also think [...]
Posted in CRM, Microsoft, SaaS, SugarCRM on Nov 14th, 2008 No Comments »
So I was reading Larry Dignan’s blog today about Microsoft offering zero percent financing for its CRM and ERP systems and at first thought to myself – “ha ha, what a cute marketing ploy, I get it.” But upon looking further, it appears this isn’t being done with tongue planted firmly in cheek at all. [...]
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