I am supposed to be finishing up a slide deck for a conference speech I am giving (which was due on Friday) and also extending invites to customers for SugarCon (maybe if some of you readers register I can kill at least two birds here – please?). But in my usual scatterbrained manner I was [...]
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In my latest Outsiders monthly poll I asked the blog readership and the Twitterverse at large what NON-CRM system they are most using in their organizations. Here was the breakout:
43% – Email/Spreadsheets
22% – Online data Service (Hoover’s, InsideView, Jigsaw etc.)
18% – Social Network (Facebook, LinkedIn)
12% – Twitter
4% – Other
OK, this tells me a few things. [...]
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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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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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A lot of us in the technology industry think of concepts like open source, SaaS and now cloud computing as old hat. And for most buzzwords, there is usually a generally accepted definition – and that’s that. But the marketing engines in Silicon Valley (and beyond) have done such a number on SaaS and now [...]
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Some great points on why SugarCRM is a great choice over competing CRM systems here at the K13 blog, apparently written by someone who left Salesforce.com for Sugar Professional On Demand.
The blog mainly compares Sugar to Salesforce.com – but really any of the older multi-tenant SaaS CRM solutions could be plugged in here.
The first point [...]
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