Jimson Lee
Ian Kilpatrick, chairman of VAD Wick Hill Group, looks forward to the coming year. Current indications are that 2014 will build on 2013 and show continued overall growth for the IT Industry Security Thanks to the NSA and GCHQ, (coupled with ongoing allegations against the Chinese), security, corporate privacy and encryption have moved … Read more
I love the David & Goliath stories where the underdog wins. But people forget that Salesforce was one of the first at Guerrilla Marketing with that fake protest over a decode ago. Every year we have one of the “David’s” take advantage of the “Cloud Computing Event of the Year". And Dreamforce 2013 is no … Read more
London, UK – Rapidly escalating demand for cloud services and computing capacity is placing excessive pressure on the data centre industry, experts have warned. Speakers at this year’s DatacenterDynamics Converged event in London, including Microsoft’s Christian Belady, caution that immediate steps must be taken to cope with today’s limited capacity and increasing global speed of … Read more
As cloud storage vendors try to compete for your dollars and loyalty, the competition is getting higher, which means lower costs for the consumer. Now that is good news! The prices keep changing, so I made a quick chart of my favorite 4 services I use to store my data, namely Google Drive, Microsoft SkyDrive, … Read more
At the last Dreamforce 2012, I mocked the so-called "Marketing Cloud" because all they had was a strong social media monitoring platform (Radian6) and a Facebook advertising platform (BuddyMedia). Where is the Marketing automation? How do you manage campaigns? SEO? SEM? Paid campaigns, both Facebook AND Google Adsense? I was also reminded that Salesforce “doesn’t … Read more
In lieu of the Salesforce.com acquisition for ExactTarget for $2.5 billion, Tom Taulli interviews Sridhar Vembu, founder and CEO of one of the pioneering companies in the space, Zoho. Zoho isn’t just CRM anymore… they include project management, web conferencing and invoicing. Up to 25 different cloud applications. From http://investorplace.com/ipo-playbook/interview-zoho-ceo-talks-cloud-industry-salesforce/ : Q: Can you give … Read more
The Cloud World Forum, the UK’s largest and most comprehensive Cloud event, will examine the latest Cloud trends when it returns to Olympia, London on June 26-27. Click here to register for a free ticket to the event. The Cloud World Forum will enable attendees to: Hear from over 220 premier speakers across 8 theatres … Read more
I find I am a visual person, and it’s easier for me to remember where I met someone by the event surroundings. I don’t have time to look that up in my CRM. For example, I remember being outside the Moscone Center with Greg Gunn of Hootsuite waiting to get in to see Metallica. Right … Read more
According to newly released data from analyst firm Gartner, CRM (customer relationship management) software will be the top priority for additional spending on enterprise applications in the global world*. Second place is ERP (enterprise resource planning), and Office Suites coming in third. According to the Gartner report, organizations are most interested in increasing spending on … Read more
Last week, I attended the Salesforce Milan Innovation Tour at the Marriott in Milano. Before I get into details, I have to walk you through memory lane. Salesforce hosted their first Dreamforce 10 years ago, to about 500 people. At the time, CRM was the big selling ticket as on-premise software was still the leader, … Read more