I had very interesting conversations and strategy sessions with my clients lately, and noticed peculiar things in the market as well — all of them around the same issue: Platforms.
No, I am not talking about the shoes of the 1970s we loved so much, I am talking about the intermediate layer of the cloud model [...]
an evaluation of the Genesys Analyst day in 2010, including coverage of the iWD, SIP Server, and cloud-based Customer Service solution
Read the rest of this entry »Back when I lived in Los Angeles I used to take one week at the end of the year to recover from the past and prepare for the new one.
I would drive into the dessert (Las Vegas) embracing all it had to offer (mostly CHP officers pulling me over). I would stay in a clean [...]
I was thinking of doing a predictions post, really, but then Paul Greenberg came along and wrote up all my predictions and added some better ones. So, instead of filling up the streams with more of the same, I thought of a twist to predictions: I won’t tell you what I think it will happen, [...]
Read the rest of this entry »When I was a Gartner analyst I owned the eService magic quadrant. The process was quite arduous; worse part was listening to vendors hype their offerings. No vendor was quite good at it, but SAP did a poor job of explaining and showcasing what they had and their marketing message was a mess, often failed [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Instead of doing mini posts for the rest of the CRM-world related news from Oracle OpenWorld, I am going to summarize them in a few bullet points. These are the not-worthy-of-an-entire-post-yet-interesting-nevertheless-news:
Fusion Hype: Probably the most over-hyped item in the show, and the most expected. If you add to that the presence the Governator (man, he [...]
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