Don’t Lay-off Employees for SaaS – Go Open Source
March 5, 2009 by Jimson Lee
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. [...]
Canada’s “Geeks on the Way” Wins 2009 Stevie Award for Sales & Customer Service
February 20, 2009 by CRM Help Desk
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 the category [...]
CRM in the Eye of Adversary Economic Climate
February 19, 2009 by Vera Lang
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 key business [...]
NetSuite Extends ‘Business ByNetSuite’ Program for SAP Customers Eager to Embrace the SaaS Revolution
February 11, 2009 by CRM Help Desk
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 suites that [...]
Helpstream Announces Winter 2009 Release
February 10, 2009 by CRM Help Desk
New Release Offers Ground Breaking Community-Driven Service Functionality and Tight Integrations with Oracle® CRM On Demand and Salesforce.com
Mountain View, CA — Helpstream®, the world’s first truly social customer service and relationship management system, today announced general availability of the Winter 2009 release containing over 40 powerful enhancements to help service organizations drive higher customer satisfaction [...]
Salesforce.com Kicks Off the Year of Cloud Computing With Salesforce CRM Spring 09
February 10, 2009 by CRM Help Desk
28th generation release allows companies to more effectively grow their business without growing capital expense or headcount
The Service Cloud transforms the quality and lowers the cost of service by leveraging expertise gained from conversations taking place in the cloud
The Sales Cloud defines the next generation of collaboration, transforming the relationship between sales, marketing and customers
SAN [...]
Confirmit Launches First Fully On-Demand, Multi-Channel Platform for Customer and Employee Feedback
February 4, 2009 by CRM Help Desk
New York, NY and Oslo, Norway –- Confirmit announces the launch of Confirmit Horizons, the first fully on-demand, multi-channel platform for Customer Feedback, Employee Feedback, and market research applications.
Confirmit Horizons enables businesses to conduct multi-channel feedback programs both on and offline, using the Web, telephone, paper, IVR, mobile and other data collection methods.
Businesses can use [...]
SugarCRM Announces Sugar Authorized Learning Program to Provide CRM Best Practices
February 3, 2009 by CRM Help Desk
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 customer [...]
IBM and iEnterprises Offer CRM Software as a Service to Help Smaller Companies Compete With Larger Rivals
February 1, 2009 by CRM Help Desk
ARMONK, NY – IBM and iEnterprises, are working with small and mid-sized construction companies to help them run their businesses more intelligently by reconfiguring their customer relationship management (CRM) systems via Software as a Service (SaaS). Hosted on IBM technology, iEnterprises provides CRM software — tailored to industries including construction, pharmaceutical, legal and others — [...]
2009 Data Privacy Day
January 28, 2009 by Jimson Lee
Today is Data Privacy Day.
29 countries including United States and Canada celebrate Data Privacy Day together. 2008 was the inaugural year
This program was designed to raise awareness about data privacy practices and rights.
While it may seem like this is targeted to major corporations, government, and the academic world, one of the initiatives of Data [...]



