iPad In The Enterprises: ServiceMax Announces Field-Service iPad App
I have been covering the iPad in the enterprise meme here at CloudAve and many others are regularly talking about how iPad is changing the business landscape. Clearly, the use of iPad is not a fad. From sales teams to IT admins, enterprises of all sizes are finding iPad to be very convenient, even increasing [...]
Jitterbit Offers Deeper Integration With Salesforce
Image via CrunchBase Jitterbit (See previous CloudAve coverage), Oakland based integration provider, announced the availability of Jitterbit Connect for Salesforce so that organizations can seamlessly connect their data with Salesforce. I have been talking to some enterprise folks and every one of them is quite convinced about the value offered by Salesforce. By offering an [...]
SugarCRM Releases Sugar 6 And Ties Up With Cloud Vendors
SugarCRM, the open source CRM company founded in 2004, has announced the release of their latest version, Sugar 6. With this release, SugarCRM is trying to focus on making it easier and flexible for users to use CRM systems. In fact, many users are completely lost when it comes to using CRM. The complexity and [...]
PBWorks Bets on a World Where CRM Meets the Actual Customers
PBWorks is launching a new version of their product today (see previous coverage of PBWorks here) that is aimed at solving the problem of traditional CRMs being siloed and closed to external customers. In the process they’ve invented yet another three letter acronym – Customer Relationship Collaboration or CRC. While I’m not enamored with the [...]
Suite vs Best of Breed – Let the Battle Begin (Yet Again)
A month or so ago I sat in a room with a small group of bloggers discussing the enterprise software space with NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson and one sentence he said stuck in my mind: The same was is playing out in this space all over again. And just like last time, the suite’s will [...]
Messaging for Growth in a SaaS Business
I posted recently about the visit I’d made to Xactly in San Jose. As well as spending time talking about the back office processes they’d used to enable them to grow by triple digits for several years running, I spoke with CEO Chris Cabrera about the challenges that his company has faced in marketing it’s [...]
Tech Stocks, Some Interesting Trends
So Greece is imploding, the flow on effects to the greater Eurozone (and even farther afield) are unknown. Wall Street is down and it’s fun to look at how tech stocks are doing… . Microsoft, down 2.37% on heavy trading. One million iPads and Apple is still down, even so more than Microsoft. What’s going [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: VMForce – A Marriage Of Convenience
This is a second post in my series titled “PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services“. I was planning to write about Heroku but since the VMForce news was a good fit for the topic, I am pushing the analysis of VMForce under the series. The post about Heroku will follow soon. Today morning, VMWare [...]
Breaking: Salesforce.com Buys GroupSwim
Big news this morning is the announcement of a deal that sees salesforce.com acquire GroupSwim (more on GroupSwim here). It seems the announcement came today but this has been brewing for sometime, GroupSwim VP of Customer Success Jason Rothbart’s Facebook status is showing him as a director of salesforce since August of this year. According [...]
Is Virtualization Necessary For Cloud Computing? – Revisited
Image via Wikipedia As more and more people start taking Cloud Computing seriously, this question is bound to come up again and again. Part of the reason is lack of clarity on the subjects for new comers and a big part of the confusion is due to the marketing messages coming from both virtualization vendors [...]
Is the Cloud Going to Kill Conventional SaaS?
Longhaul flights are sometimes useful in that they allow one to ruminate over some of the issues that the daily deluge of data doesn’t allow. On this partiuclar flight I’ve been ruminating over a post I read recently from Yobie Benjamin. In the post he interviewed the CEO of SugarCRM, Larry Augustin. The gist of [...]
Box.net – Another Frontal Assault on Microsoft
You’ve got to hand it to box.net (read about ‘em here), fresh from their last campaign which squarely put them head to head with Microsoft (see the evidence here) Box is today announcing that it is launching an application on the salesforce.com app exchange. While this may be a seemingly boring announcements, digging deeper into [...]
SlideRocket – More Than Just Presentations
I had a briefing yesterday with SlideRocket, the company that “provides premium communication tools through innovative and compelling software-as-a-service to let you present the right message, to the right audience, at the right time. SlideRocket gives everyone the power to make great presentations, communicate effectively with colleagues, impress customers and captivate audiences.” I spoke to [...]
Looking East Again: More Hotness On The Singapore Front
Regular readers of my post know about my strong belief that the future of Cloud Computing is an ecosystem of open federated clouds. The world is very diverse and “decentralized” and the most important invention after wheel, the internet, is also decentralized and open. So, in my opinion, the technology that is developed on top [...]
Making CRM Work for Verticals
In recent days I’ve seen some quite interesting offerings built upon salesforce.com’s force.com platform which leverage the building blocks the salesforce already provides, but tailors them for distinct verticals. One of the offerings is still in stealth mode but the other is an interesting little solution for students. Studentforce can be thought of as CRM [...]
