CRM in the Eye of Adversary Economic Climate

CRM in the Eye of Adversary Economic Climate In the current global economic recession, the market strategy of choice is customer retention, and customer service is a core ingredient in this pursuit. Indeed, Gartner reported mid 2008 that for the third year in a row, customer experience and customer service are cited by CIOs as [...]

Why CRM and Social Media is More Important in a Recession

The Recession is producing a cut-throat approach to sales. In the past, SaaS companies used to go after customers using a traditional hosted or shrink-wrapped software. Now SaaS is going after it’s own kind. I’ve read so many press releases and seen so many ads on how you can switch your CRM companies at a [...]

Offline Email Alternatives to Outlook IMAP – Gmail and Google Gears

Last week, Google introduced offline email with Gmail that’s IMAP and Outlook independent. This is a huge step forward, as one of the main reasons why I still use Microsoft Outlook is the ability to “store and forward” email and work offline. Those 5 hour cross country flights or half hour waits at the coffee [...]

Knowledge-as-a-Service (KaaS)

How many types of INSERT_KEY_WORD_HERE-as-a-service exist? We all know of SaaS (Software), PaaS (Platform), IaaS (Infrastructure) & MaaS (Mobility) Now we have Knowledge as a Service (KaaS). Here is an interesting article on Knowledge as a Service (KaaS). Thei Geurts illustrates how KaaS can help support an agile enterprise in a networked knowledge economy. Thei [...]

Gartner 2009 Forecast: IT Spending Flat, but Outsourcing will Grow

There were two interesting press releases from Gartner last week that caused mixed emotions in the IT world. The news was good or bad, depending on how you looked at it. 1. Gartner Says Outsourcing Will Continue to Grow in 2009 Despite Economic Slowdown (press release here) 2. Gartner EXP Worldwide Survey of More than [...]

Is LinkedIn the Next CRM?

Is it my impression, or did LinkedIn improve their services by creating a contact management system that looks and smells like a CRM? In the recent year, we’ve seen Facebook become the number 1 social media site that started to creep into the Corporate world. Facebook can now connect to Salesforce.com via AppExchange or Appirio. [...]

Google Apps Premier Edition Allows Better Password Control

This is good news to users of Google Apps Premier Edition, like Genentech. The Premier version of Google Apps allows more control over the passwords that their users can choose. This applies to the whole suite of applications under Google Apps, including Gmail, Docs, and Spreadsheets. Google Apps administrators can now set a minimum password [...]

Salesforce. com – Great News in this Recession or Simply Arrogance?

Yesterday’s Salesforce.com outage resulted in several readers emailing me the story from the San Jose Mercury News titled ‘The Recession, the Cloud and Salesforce.com’ *. The feelings were mixed. Read on… With all the bad news about layoffs, declining sales and falling housing markets, one company shines out: Salesforce.com There is no doubt they are [...]

Salesforce .com Outage – Cloud Computing becomes Black Clouds

Almost a million subscribers were “literally in the dark” today between 12:40pm – 1:25pm, according the system wide outage reported on http://trust.salesforce.com/trust/status/. No details were given. Some reports claim it was much earlier than that, which pushed the envelope to an hour. As well, trust.salesforce.com was down, so customers were unable to find the status [...]

CRM Help Desk Software Predictions for 2009

These 5 industries will continue to be hot topics for 2009, which is going to be a very lean year for small, medium and large businesses. Tech spending will be tightened and budgets will be cut. If you are looking to increase productivity without spending more money, these 5 topics will certainly be on your [...]

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