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.”
Cloud Computing Enhances Enterprise Development
Dustin Amrheim of IBM recently posted on Five Ways Cloud Computing Strengthens IT: Enhancing Development and Test with Cloud Computing in the Cloud Computing Journal. Dustin is a technical evangelist for IBM emerging technologies in the WebSphere portfolio.
Linking Performance Appraisals to Business Plans
Performance appraisals should never be conducted in isolation of the overall business direction. It is important to link each person's goals and objectives back to the business overall goals and...
Read more about Linking Performance Appraisals to Business Plans...Quick and Dirty (and Cheap) Browser Testing
Adaptive Path is a pretty homogeneous company, technologically speaking. We’re a 100% Mac shop. Some of us fire up Parallels to create a Visio document or to play with Expressions, but this is a rarity. As a developer this limits my ability put a...
Read more about Quick and Dirty (and Cheap) Browser Testing...Is Your Organization Experienced?
A few days ago, while reading Bruce Temkin’s excellent Customer Experience Matters blog, I came across a post announcing a new Forrester report called “The Customer Experience Journey.” In the post, Bruce included the following diagram illustrating...
Read more about Is Your Organization Experienced?...Enterprise Mashups on Stage at CeBIT
Last week the world's largest annual computer expo, the CeBIT conference, was held in Hannover, Germany. While CeBIT still covers the latest physical advances in things like consumer electronics, server hardware, security and access devices, etc,...
Read more about Enterprise Mashups on Stage at CeBIT...The Cloud is Falling
Yes, the cloud is falling. And on-premise software executives are lining up to explain to us why the cloud computing era is distant and the promise of SaaS and PaaS is false. I will let you decide after reading this post by Vinnie and the original...
Read more about The Cloud is Falling...Strategy Definition or Strategy Execution…
Which is more important? It’s a bit of a chicken vs. egg argument, but it’s fair to say that both are critical to driving positive financial results. Put it this way, if defining strategy explains 15% of a company’s financial performance then...
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