Salesforce is announcing the next generation of Salesforce Analytics Cloud, delivering actionable intelligence across the Customer Success Platform. New Wave Actions will enable Salesforce users to take actions directly at the point of insight from within any Wave Analytics dashboard. In addition, Salesforce will deliver Wave visualizations across the entire Customer Success Platform. Salesforce’s on … Read more
Combines Financial and Customer Data to Provide Better Insights and Increase Sales Salesforce is definitely winning new friends. Now, small business accounting, customer & business management software provider Intuit Inc. announced Salesforce for QuickBooks. This linking software & service will enable their base clientele of small businesses to easily manage their customer relationships and close … Read more
One of the reasons why I like Chatter 2 is that no training is required. No training means no costs and no downtime from employees. Unlike complex CRM and ERP implementations (and I know, I’ve been there), everyone knows how to use Facebook. Okay, well not everyone. But it’s the same look and feel. Consider … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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. … Read more
Salesforce.com releases Service Cloud, the next-generation solution for customer service Salesforce.com rolled out its next-generation solution for customer service. The Service Cloud is built on their existing Force.com platform and leverages the benefits of cloud computing, something SFDC has been tooting their horns for the last 10 years. How can this help Customer Service? Traditionally, … Read more
Local CRM Experts Share What’s Hot, What’s Not at Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) CRM Meeting ATLANTA — Bruce Culbert, CEO, iSymmetry and Chairman/Co-Founder, myCRMcareer, will join fellow panelists to discuss What’s Hot and What’s Not at the upcoming “State of the CRM Industry” meeting. The event is sponsored by the Technology Association of Georgia … Read more
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 … Read more