SAP Tabs Pilot For Analytics Flight
SAP filled a gap in its analytic applications suite by buying Pilot Software, a privately-held company specializing in…
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Bust or Boon? Calculating Blog ROI
By now everyone knows that blogs are being used by many e-tailers as a way to capitalize on…
Live Help the Open Source Way
There’s little doubt that many e-commerce businesses embrace open source applications such as OS Commerce. The problem is…
Newsgator Offers RSS Management On Demand
For your small businesses to succeed, you know you need to stay on top of what’s happening in…
Turn Outlook into a CRM Platform
Customer relationship management (CRM) and sales force automation (SFA) applications can be a boon to any sales- or…
At The Salesforce Apex of SaaS
On-demand customer relationship management (CRM) application vendor Salesforce.com used the winter release of its flagship CRM service Salesforce…
Salesforce.com Offers Invitation-Only Collaboration
Central Desktop, a respected and rapidly growing online collaboration system, has announced a deeper relationship with Salesforce.com. Users…
Put A Prophet in Your Outlook
How much time do your employees — particularly your sales people — spend in Outlook? Given the popular…
An iTunes Store For Business Apps?
Salesforce.com is announcing AppStore, a new set of services it will use to squeeze more revenue from its…
Service With A Smile: When What You’re Selling is You
The benefits of owning your own home-based business are obvious: no commute, no cubicle, no gossip, no dress…
Salesforce.com Grows Up
Salesforce.com is introducing a suite of integration applications. In doing so, it hopes to remove a major obstacle…
Money Talks: Motivating Sales People
Article courtesy of SmallBusinessComputing.com. A carefully designed compensation plan based on quotas, commissions and bonuses can be a…
Microsoft Previews Products For 2007
No need to shake the box. It’s another tie. Microsoft has unwrapped a sleigh-full of presents for its…
NetSuite ‘Flexing’ Platform Muscles
NetSuite, which makes business management software offered as a service , has rolled out a set of tools…
Apex Gives SAP a Case of Vertigo
SAP may be feeling the heat.The world’s largest vendor of ERP software was quick to deprecate Apex, the…
Salesforce Plans Java-like Language
Salesforce.com announced plans to introduce Apex, a Java-like programming language allowing customers to run business applications without the…
Survey Says…Online Feedback Key to Success
It used to take months to plan a survey. There was the matter of compiling questions and getting…
Survey Says…Online Feedback Key to Success
It used to take months to plan a survey. There was the matter of compiling questions and getting…
Google and Intuit Partner Up
Google and Intuit, makers of the small business accounting software QuickBooks, announced a partnership that will integrate Google’s…
SAP Pushes Compliance as Strategy
SAP wants companies to think of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) management in strategic terms. The leading vendor…
John Roberts, CEO, SugarCRM
John Roberts is a man on a mission to change the CRM industry. As the founder and CEO…
Online Vendors Help You Capitalize on Keywords
Small businesses — e-commerce or otherwise — don’t have the luxury of spending extra time and money on…
Salesforce: More Than Just a Pretty SaaS
Salesforce.com surprised analysts with a much stronger second quarter than expected. As impressive as the raw numbers, however,…
Get Your Coupons on Google Maps
Everybody wants a piece of the Sunday papers. While Craigslist takes on the classifieds, Google today announced it…
Savvy Search Boosts Sales
When it comes to e-commerce, sales rule the roost. But all too often customers don’t find what they…
IBM Promos SAP on the Mainframe
IBM further cemented its relationship to long-time partner SAP with today’s announcement of a $40 million investment by…
Sugar 4.5 Gets ‘AJAXed’
Article courtesy of Internetnews.com. With the 4.5 release of its open source CRM package, SugarCRM is capitalizing on…
CRM Summer Update From Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com today announced the availability of Summer ’06, the 20th release of its on-demand customer relationship management (CRM)…
Microsoft to Offer CRM as a Service
Article appeared originally on Internetnews.com. Microsoft’s Dynamics CRM product line will be the latest to make the transformation…
NetSuite and CompUSA Team to Sell On-Demand
If the thought of signing up for a Web-based application suite leaves you feeling a little isolated, you’re…
How to Use Web Analytics, Part 1
A Web analytics program is like an airplane pilot’s navigation system. As pilots look to their dials and…
A Sales View of The Inside
Knowing how your products are selling can be a lot like waiting for results on election night. Exit…
Enter the Wonderful World of Word-of-Mouth Marketing
Courtesy of SmallBusinessComputing.com People like to buy from companies or people that they know and trust, and they…
Oracle Buys Into On-Demand CRM
Article courtesy of Internetnews.com. Oracle added a new weapon to fight Salesforce.com and SAP in the battle for…
Selling to the Teen Shopper
Courtesy of ECommerce-Guide.com When it comes to shopping online, teenage users are a contradiction: Most teens don’t have…
Salesforce Serves Notice
Courtesy of Internetnews.com.Salesforce.com may not have deep enough pockets to get into the venture capital business the way…
Get an ‘Xact’ Look at Sales Compensation
Courtesy of SmallBusinessComputing.com. When it comes to running a successful small business, few things are as critical as…
SAP Looks to Lure ISVs
SAP wants more independent software vendors (ISVs) to build applications on NetWeaver. The $125 million venture fund it…
SAP and Oracle Go Another Round
SAP threw another blow at the body of rival software vendor Oracle, announcing that is offering technical support…
Everest Puts Software on On Demand
Article of courtesy of SmallBusinessComputing.com There’s no denying that many small businesses are turning into true believers when…
ACT! Ventures Into Real Estate
Courtesy of SmallBusinessComputing.com. When it comes to managing contact and sales leads, no product has stood the test…
The CRM Conundrum
Courtesy of SmallBusinessComputing.com. Picking a CRM (customer relationship management) application is one of the biggest technology decisions you’ll…
A Wireless Spring in Salesforce.com’s Step
Given the limitations of most wireless devices on the market, the relative dearth of business applications running on…
NetSuite 11.0 Packs AJAX, Scripts and Specialty Versions
Courtesy of SmallBusinessComputing.com With the Oakland Coliseum and the Athletics game against the New York Yankees as the…
The Small Business CRM Conundrum
Courtesy of SmallBusinessComputing.com Picking a CRM application is one of the biggest technology decisions you’ll make for your…
Search for Your Web Site
When customers come to your Web site, they usually want to find stuff fast. If the site is…
FrontRange Creates VoIP/CRM GoldMine
FrontRange Solutions recently announced the release of its GoldMine IP Voice Suite, an integrated offering which combines an…
New and Improved Salesforce.com?
Salesforce.com is expanding its horizons. The company’s new “Unlimited Edition” is no longer centered on customer relationship management…
The Year of CRM, With a Twist
Some acronyms never die, even if in many ways their time has come and gone. CRM – or…
Salesnet Targets Salesforce.com With Direct Attack
Salesnet thinks that now is the time to “start to go toe-to-toe with Salesforce.com,” according the Jonathan Tang,…