Posted in Apple, Application Design, CRM, Google, Mobile, Open Source, SaaS, SugarCRM, cloud computing, social CRM, social media, twitter, web 2.0 on Jan 25th, 2010 No Comments »
I had an interesting Twitter exchange today with analyst turned social guru Esteban Kolsky. (If you’re not already following him – do so now) I asked the twitterverse what they felt the possibility of “the browser as the desktop” -thinking about how cloud-based software makes desktop operating systems (at least anything heavy) nearly obsolete.
Think about [...]
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I think most of us are more happy than sad that 2009 is drawing to a close. In the global sense, 2009 sucked. Plain and simple. But if you’re a silver-lining type of guy (which I am not) you can say that at least we all learned about the value of hard work, the importance [...]
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I received a comment/question on my last post. The individual asked me to explain how Microsoft is more application-centric in its cloud vision, and to better define my definition of the cloud. I responded in the comments section, but I liked my definition so much I wanted to make a post out of it.
Below is [...]
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It is odd to see a company filled with open source wonks excited about working closely with Microsoft. However, the guys in Redmond have a pretty strong vision for cloud computing in Azure – one that I personally feel is different than anyone making a major play for the cloud today.
Why? Well, for a number [...]
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I had an interesting IM conversation with Sugar associate Mitch Lieberman based on a blog post he wrote the other day. The post was around CRM complexity – but what sparked my imagination was a point in somewhat the opposing direction.
Yes, technology can be complex and at times frustrating. And in years past, technology was [...]
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Wow. That is all I can say.
When we first thought up the idea of spoofing Marc Benioff’s latest tome – we really did not think that the prank would generate this much press. Nor did we think it would be one of the most talked about spectacles at Dreamforce.
Even Newsweek covered the guerrilla campaign, as [...]
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So Marc Benioff had a few choice words to say about SugarCRM in his new book, Behind the Cloud. In the book, Marc relates an anecdote from 2006, back when Salesforce.com was starting to really become a huge marketing machine and a little CRM startup was at their first conference ruffling feathers. As Marc puts [...]
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It seems a little counter intuitive to say that it looks like blue skies for Microsoft shops looking to extend Sugar into the cloud…but that is the case with a newly announced SugarCRM and Microsoft alliance focused on the Azure platform.
For those of you not cloud savvy, a bit on Azure:
Windows Azure is an Internet-scale [...]
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I was following up on some coverage Sugar’s CEO Larry Augustin has received in the press and from the bloggers following that press. Larry has noted that the true cloud-powered solutions that are coming up are replacing (or at least evolving) the notions we have around SaaS. A nice distillation can be found here at [...]
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One of the great things about truly open applications like Sugar is that they were “cloud-ready” before the cloud was even a buzzword. While the old SaaS companies try to steal the cloud hype for themselves, solutions like Sugar are truly powering the Open Cloud.
The result: global, flexible CRM solutions in a number of flavors, [...]
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