Posted in CRM, Open Source, SugarCRM, salesforce.com on Jun 30th, 2008 No Comments »
I came across this article on Forbes.com entitled “Kill the Data Center,” which as the title suggests, is about the pros and cons of hosting software. The author provides an excellent Q&A with Doug Harr, the CIO of open source database vendor Ingres.
All-in-all, the interview has some great tidbits of info about the decision-making that […]
Posted in Application Design, CRM, SaaS, salesforce.com on Jun 16th, 2008 No Comments »
I’m in Boston for our CRM Acceleration event…and it’s good to be back on the east coast. Of course, the one time my Phillies play the Red Sox in inter-league play WHILE I’m here - it’s in Philadelphia…sigh…
But looking over the blogosphere in my hotel room I came across an interesting blog post. It is […]
Posted in CRM, SaaS, salesforce.com on Jun 5th, 2008 No Comments »
We live in a strange world. One where we can buy one of Bill Cosby’s hideous sweaters for charity with the click of a mouse.
But that is not my primary annoyance today. I just came across a blog that posits that Salesforce.com should be considered in the same size range as General Motors (yes, the […]
Posted in CRM, Siebel/PeopleSoft/JD Edwards/Oracle, salesforce.com on May 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Joshua Greenbaum, a personnel favorite of mine, wrote a great blog today on some of the emerging trends we’re seeing in the CRM market today, particularly with Salesforce.com and CRM 2.0.
I’ve always been a big history buff, partially because I’m a dork when it comes to history but more because it provides perspective on what’s […]
Posted in CRM, SaaS, SugarCRM, salesforce.com on May 27th, 2008 No Comments »
I had a great long holiday weekend - especially since over the last two days of it I got to see my Phillies score 35 (yes, 35) runs in two games…now, if they only had a crack reliever and setup man in their pen (oh, and if their starters were as solid on the mound […]
Posted in Application Design, SAP, SaaS, salesforce.com on May 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
Now that it is official that SAP will be delaying the roll out of its midmarket SaaS suite, Business by Design, it really hammered home what I already knew.
SaaS is NOT easy…
I think too many people have the idea that SaaS is some magic bullet, and that all you have to do it throw together […]
Posted in CRM, Microsoft, Open Source, SaaS, SugarCRM, salesforce.com on Apr 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
Joshua Greenbaum wrote an interesting blog yesterday underscoring the brewing battle between Salesforce.com and Microsoft, which recently announced general availability of its on-demand CRM application to its North American subscribers.
Greenbaum highlighted a number of interesting paying points for Dynamics CRM Online, including being able to match or beat Salesforce.com in features/functionality, beat it in price, […]
Posted in CRM, Google, salesforce.com on Apr 14th, 2008 No Comments »
As I’m sure many of you have already noted, Salesforce.com and Google today announced that Google will now offer its Google Apps as part of the Salesforce.com platform.
Well isn’t that just riveting.
With all due honesty, who uses Google Apps? Google text messaging and Maps…sure, but who leverages Google’s spreadsheets, text editor, and e-mail tools on […]
Posted in Application Design, CRM, SugarCRM, salesforce.com on Apr 4th, 2008 No Comments »
I just got back from a company-wide quarterly update meeting, and I come away with each of these with the same feeling of…WOW. SugarCRM is growing fast, we have a GREAT team in place, and the fun and energetic place to work results in a fun to use and very robust CRM platform.
SO it was […]
Posted in Application Design, Microsoft, Open Source, SaaS, salesforce.com on Mar 19th, 2008 No Comments »
There’s been a lot of recent talk within the blogosphere taking note of the emerging Web-based, platform battle emerging between Salesforce.com and Microsoft. Dan Farber talked about in his blog yesterday.
While I’ll leave the potential landmine that is Benioff and Ray Ozzie slugging it out to other bloggers, I thought Dave Rosenberg brought up a […]
