Well, as usual I am late to break the news.
Salesforce introduced Chatter with great fanfare — and most everyone covered it in detail and analyzed it (Dion Hinchcliffe, Sameer Patel, and Michael Krigsman provided some of my favorite coverage).
I am going to tell you what I think most people are missing and the reason it [...]
Cloud computing and social business enablement are more closely linked than most people realize. The success of one will likely increase the likelihood of success of the other.
Read the rest of this entry »I get plenty of Press Releases, News, and Emails from people in the industry. Some of them are converted into Posts, some of them are good enough to know, some of them, well – I won’t tell you how to use Soda Pop to rob a bank, let’s just say that…
Here is a compilation of [...]
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 [...]
Read the rest of this entry »This review covers the main CRM product, I am going to do a review of OnDemand (or at least get the information) later today and tomorrow.
You probably already read the reports of what Oracle has announced for CRM at Oracle OpenWorld 2009 (here is an official Press Release and a link to the Press Release [...]
I attended the Opening Keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2009 and there were some interesting things to be said there.
First came Scott McNealy, the CEO of Sun Microsystems to assure the crowd that the acquisition by Oracle is going to be a good thing. He spoke of the theme of the meet being Innovation, and proceeded [...]
In 1991 Siebel introduced the concept of a CRM Suite. The first complete version came along shortly after, and the first successful, complete implementations were around 1995-1996.
In November of 2007 Oracle, Siebel, and Microsoft announced their first “Social CRM”-aware products, and it was only earlier this year that Paul Greenberg set a working definition for [...]
Earlier this week I moderated an SCRM panel for the CIO and IT Executives of the Bay Area meetup group. We covered all sort of topics in 90-minutes (there is link to the video at the end), and here is my summary.
First, the level of people in the panel was exceptional: Chris Carfi , an [...]
