MSP – Managed Service Pretenders

Does anyone have bad experiences with their Managed Service Provider? Here is an old joke, which I’ll post since it’s April Fool’s Day: There once was a Managed Service Provider Salesman that had a product demos that could do all your CRM, Help Desk, and ERP solutions for a low monthly cost. Customizing and configuring [...]

Don’t Lay-off Employees for SaaS – Go Open Source

I’m going to get in trouble for writing this… Here’s an idea. Don’t lay-off your employees in favour of SaaS. Keep them and go Open Source and support their training costs. This isn’t a shameless plug for the Obama/Harper economic stimulus plan. Sure, good software is expensive, but it doesn’t always have to be. And [...]

Canada’s “Geeks on the Way” Wins 2009 Stevie Award for Sales & Customer Service

Geeks on the Way Recognized for CRM Implementation & User Adoption Program of the Year LAS VEGAS–Geeks on the Way was named the winner of the CRM Implementation & User Adoption Program category in the third annual 2009 Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. “Winning a Stevie Award for Sales and Customer Service in [...]

LiveTime Ships New ITIL Service Desk Hardware Appliance

New IT Service Desk appliance available with Dual Quad Core processors from AMD, Intel, and LiveTime Service Manager 5.5. Includes 128-bit ZFS file system support, plus embedded MySQL Enterprise and PostgreSQL. Newport Beach, CA – LiveTime Software, a leading provider of ITIL based Web 2.0 Service Management and Help Desk Software, today announced the general [...]

NetSuite Extends ‘Business ByNetSuite’ Program for SAP Customers Eager to Embrace the SaaS Revolution

Leading On-Demand ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) Suite for Mid-Market Companies Helps Large SAP Customers Cut Costs and Relieves Them from Hefty Maintenance Fees and Upgrade Hassles Customers Deploying NetSuite to Replace or Complement SAP Realize Major Cost Savings and Productivity Gains SAN MATEO, Calif., — NetSuite Inc., a leading vendor of on-demand, integrated business software [...]

SugarCRM Announces Sugar Authorized Learning Program to Provide CRM Best Practices

Levementum, Plus Consulting, Redpill-Linpro, Bhea Knowledge Technologies and iZeno Among Certified Partner Providers in North America, Europe and Asia CUPERTINO, Calif. – SugarCRM Inc., the world’s leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, today announced the Sugar Authorized Learning Program to accelerate the adoption of CRM best practices across its global [...]

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 [...]

FrontRange Launches HEAT Service & Support 9.0

FrontRange Launches HEAT® Service & Support™ 9.0 to Help Organizations Increase IT Effectiveness in Challenging Economic Times PLEASANTON, Calif. – FrontRange Solutions, a leading developer of IT Service Management solutions, has today announced the launch of HEAT 9.0, the latest release of the company’s award-winning Help Desk software. HEAT 9.0 introduces a wealth of features [...]

SugarCRM Announces Keynotes and Sponsors for SugarCon 2009

IBM, Microsoft, Research In Motion, Jigsaw, Levementum and Talend to Sponsor Commercial Open Source CRM Conference CUPERTINO, Calif.– SugarCRM, the world’s leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, today announced keynotes and sponsors for SugarCon 2009, the company’s global customer and developer conference, February 2-4, 2009, at the Palace Hotel in [...]

Weather Forecast Sun Mixed with Clouds – Sun Microsystems Acquires Q-layer

Interesting developments from Sun Microsystems. It appears they see the value (and future!) of Cloud Computing by acquiring Belgium based Q-layer. It wasn’t long ago when Sun was the de facto choice in Enterprise level web and application servers. Of course, that was August 2000 when their share price was $250! Today, they are struggling [...]

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