AppExchange = Future Growth
Salesforce.com recently announced the acquisition of its 10,000th European customer as well as a 70% increase in new customers over the first quarter of 2008. Chief Strategy Officer Bruce Francis credited the speed of cloud-based implementation as a prime factor in its growth. Speaking from the European Cloudforce Conference, Francis further also cited global recession as a reason for Salesforce’s success, adding "The economic crisis has caused many CIOs to look at alternative computing models.”
CRM and social networking...
I was quoted in Computing the other week making somewhat unsupportive remarks about the CRM vendor’s attempts to harness social networking. In essence my feelings are that companies need to understand the impact of social networking rather than concern themselves about taming it.
Convert Your Emails into Google Documents without
Google recently introduced a new feature in Gmail that lets you easily convert an email conversation into a Word document without having to use copy-paste.
Simply click the "Create a Document" link next to any Gmail thread and the entire message...
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Preparation is the key to a successful employee performance review. Reviews are not something you can just pop into and "winging it" if you want to get the best results from the...
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If you like to give ThinkFree a try, there's no need to create another set of credentials as ThinkFree, like Zoho, now supports Google...
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Our VP Services heard quite an interesting comment from some of the team members at a recent implementation of Tenrox project management software . This customer has spent several months and tens of thousands of dollars to implement the Tenrox...
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It’s that time of year when many businesses start doing their employee performance reviews. There was an interesting study done by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the Ethics Resource Centre (ERC). Only 23% of HR professionals...
Read more about It's Performance Review Season Again...Crowdsourcing the Terror Response to Mumbai
The disheartening events in Mumbai have saddened me. Most people, whether they align with India on substantiative issues, would agree that terror is not an acceptable route to meeting one's objectives. While this mayhem went on and I tried to keep...
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