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Transitions in the Real World

As you may know, I have been writing about on-demand computing for close to 10 years. The other day a reader sent me an interesting e-mail that I think sums up what a lot of other people are thinking. The note reads, in part, "We've all read the same books, we all know who Clay Christensen is and none of this surprises us. So why are the big players letting themselves go down the same well-worn path?"...

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CRM 2.0: Everyone’s Invited

Paul Greenberg has one of the most prolific and wide-ranging minds in the CRM business. He wrote the CRM bible, CRM at the Speed of Light, which is now in its third edition. He lectures constantly, educates, and writes and publishes just about everywhere in the CRM world ...

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Annus Mirabilis

A miracle year comes along very rarely, though any single year could be one depending on the subject matter. For example, as a member of Red Sox nation, 2004 will always be a miracle year for me, because my team won the World Series after 86 years of futility -- the Cubs are still waiting for theirs ...

Google, Salesforce.com Partnership Buzz Grows

Little is known about the two companies' long-term plans, though, and theories about where they might take this relationship are highly speculative, Denis Pombriant, founder and principal of Beagle Research, told CRM Buyer "It could be about CRM -- Google has ambitions in this...

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Sage Software’s Secret Sauce

Sage Software is having its annual Insights user meeting this week in Orlando, Fla., and I am filing this piece from there. More than 3,000 partner representatives are in attendance, which accounts for a broad array of products that include ACT!, SageCRM, SageCRM.com, and SalesLogix on the front-office side, plus a blizzard of accounting and ERP (enterprise resource planning) products for the back office...

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More in the Incubator Than Meets the Eye

Do we still need venture capitalists in the software industry? Sounds like a no-brainer, but the question also reflects the disruption that is taking place in enterprise software -- initiated by Salesforce.com and accelerated with its unveiling of a company incubator in San Mateo, Calif ...

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Incubating in the New Garage

Well, it didn't look like a garage, that's all I can say. It was clean and freshly painted, and if you believe the stories in the press, recently exorcised to remove the ghosts of Siebel. It was Salesforce.com's incubator -- the closest thing I have found to my New Garage concept ...

Open Source SplendidCRM Upgrade Offers Ajax, .Net 2.0

"This is not so much a CRM announcement as it is a technology announcement," Denis Pombriant, principal with the Beagle Research Group, told CRM Buyer. "I look forward to learning more about what all this technology means for the CRM user." An evaluation version of SplendidCRM...

Microsoft, SAP Plot Duet Software Road Map

"These are the types of big vendor announcements to give end users a sense of what the future holds for them as they continue down a path with companies that are strategic partners," Denis Pombriant, principal of the Beagle Research Group, told CRM Buyer Where It's Headed...

Oracle Aims to Cut UI Clutter in Siebel CRM Update

Oracle's announcement seems rather defensive in light of Salesforce.com's recent deal with Adobe to include Adobe Flex tools in its hosted offerings, Denis Pombriant, principal with the Beagle Research Group, told CRM Buyer "From these two announcements, I would say there is a...

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What Does Darwinian Theory Have to Do With CRM?

Last week, I got into the idea of evolution as it relates to the technology market and used Microsoft and Salesforce.com to illustrate the need to keep multiple plans percolating so that a company can take advantage of a move in the market ...

Free Adobe Tools Aim to Ease Salesforce.com App Dev

"I think this ups the ante for anyone building customer-facing applications," Denis Pombriant, principal with the Beagle Research Group, told CRM Buyer "Although the on-demand movement has been around for about eight years, the idea of on-demand development and deployment by I...

Salesforce.com Pushes Into Content Management With Acquisition

Denis Pombriant, principal with the Beagle Research Group, sees other possibilities "Any application or business that is governed by contracts or deep records management, such as medical records, would be fair game," he told CRM Buyer. "A lot of people don't realize how import...

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Will Salesforce.com’s Apex Strategy Succeed?

Salesforce.com on Tuesday announced it has acquired content management software vendor Koral. At a luncheon served up at the Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco, CEO Marc Benioff said that document management is a core element of the company's platform strategy. That strategy has been rolling out in bits and pieces since the company announced its Apex platform last year...

Salesforce.com Readies Campaign App for 2008 Election Cycle

Rumors have been circulating that one of the reasons the Romney campaign was able to raise so much money was that it had a robust back-end system, Denis Pombriant, principal with Beagle Research, told CRM Buyer. "It makes sense -- he has a smaller base and needed to be methodical in order to hit everybody he could."

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS

SAP, Agassi and the Future

SAP's abrupt announcement that golden boy Shai Agassi was leaving the company last week hit like a proverbial ton of bricks. The initial announcement said all the right things about Agassi wanting to pursue other options, and board chairman Hasso Plattner made the usual remarks about still being friends and the mutuality of the decision -- but you have to suspect that there's a back story...

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Community Values

Two things impressed me about Salesforce.com's Spring '07 release: the community portal and the influence of the IdeaExchange on the direction of the product. A lot of people point to the portal as the more significant and I suppose it is, but maybe only by a whisker ...

Cameleon EasyQuote Eases Salesforce.com Order Processing

"It is not the only quote configuration tool in the tool box, but companies look for simple apps to encourage and train salespeople to use Salesforce in the first place," Denis Pombriant, founder of Beagle Research, told CRM Buyer. "It is a quasi front end-back end type solut...

ANALYSIS

Compensation Management: The Newest Spectator Sport

There is a dandy little market share war taking place right now in the compensation management sector. Vendors are making claims to uniqueness and superiority and trashing each other in ways that we haven't seen in a few years -- and it's great sport ...

‘Hillary 1984’ – First ‘YouTube Election’ Off to Flaming Start

"People are too willing to trust something if it sounds official or is labeled with a prestigious-sounding name or organization," Denis Pombriant, founder of Beagle Research, told TechNewsWorld. "My advice to anyone relying on the wonderful wizardry of the Web for information is to consider the season and demand proof."

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