By Zoli Erdos on March 9, 2010
I’m at the Google Campfire One event where they’ve just announced the Google Apps Marketplace. The site is live now, feel free to browse. The speculation is now over, this is Google’s answer on whether they will enter the Business Applications market – they just did, with an entire ecosystem of Partners.
The new Marketplace fills [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Software | Tagged AppExchange, crm, echosign, echosystem, erp, force.com, freshbooks, google, google apps, google apps marketplace, marketplace, netsuite, partners, SaaS, salesforce.com, smb, sme, zoho
By Zoli Erdos on March 9, 2010
If you think I am here to spill the beans, you’re wrong. On a purely speculative level, if there is some news to come, and if there is an embargo related to it, then I respect that. And it’s all a big IF.
So no, I am simply dusting off an old post I wrote [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged accounting, all-in-one, AppExchange, Atlassian, bbd, Business ByDesign, business software, crm, enterprise software, google, google apps, lightweight software, netsuite, On Demand, SaaS, salesforce.com, sap, small business suite, smb, sme, software as a service, zoho
By Paul Greenberg on January 27, 2010
Okay my compadres, on Monday you had a strong taste of Brent Leary’s good stuff on small business CRM. Now we move on to Part B of his stuff, closing the loop on the SMB market place. Listen up to his wise analysis. He knows from whence he comes. Here’s the rest.
Social Natives: BatchBlue [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Software | Tagged Bantam Live, BatchBook, Co-Tweet, Facebook, gist, google, HubSpot, Network Hippo, smb, sme, Social CRM, Uncategorized, WeCanDoBiz, YouTube
By Paul Greenberg on January 25, 2010
(Brent Leary, who is both a Social CRM guru and a great friend has graciously done a post on the companies to watch for 2010 when it comes to the small and medium business space. He was clearly trying to outdo me because his post is so big that it has to be split into [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Software | Tagged Act, Avidian, Constant Contact, crm, InfusionSoft, Intuit, Prophet, Sage, salesforce.com, small business, smb, sme, Uncategorized, xobni, zoho
By Paul Greenberg on December 10, 2009
I have to admit that I enjoy going to conferences and summits as an analyst, journalist or paid speaker. I’m treated well by the vendors who bring me, my expenses are covered (and if a speaker, a fee too of course) and I know a lot of the staff who of whichever vendor it is [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged bbd, Business ByDesign, ByD, CRM - Traditional, CRM Strategy, Enterprise 2.0, Industry Analysis, salesforce.com, sap, SAP Business Influencers Summit, sapsummit, smb, sme, Social CRM, Technology Reviews, Thought Leadership
By James Governor on December 10, 2009
I just got back SAP’s Influencer Summit for 2009 in Boston. The company seem to be finally emerging from what can only be described as an annus horribilis. 2009 was not a good year for SAP. Sales are down, perceptions are more negative than they have been in a long time because of potential maintenance [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged BusinessObjects, ByDesign, Cloud, microsoft, On Demand, PaaS, SaaS, sap, smb, Visual Studio
By Prashanth Rai on December 9, 2009
During the last couple of days at the SAP Influencer Summit, There were a lot of interesting discussions / sessions. I will post about them over the next couple of days. To start off, I wanted to just list out…
Posted in Business | Tagged enterprise software, innovation, smb, SOA, Web/Tech
By Phil Wainewright on December 9, 2009
Listen to my conversation with Juan Santana, CEO of Panda Security, a long-established provider of antivirus and other malware protection products and services to the SMB market.
In this podcast, discover how the volume of malware distributed via the Internet has escalated over the past few years and learn why a cloud-based antivirus service may nevertheless [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Software | Tagged antivirus, Cloud, email, malware, McAfee, Panda, Panda Security, security, smb, Symantec
By Tom Foydel on November 20, 2009
Thomas Wailgum writes some good articles and is frankly one of the few writers on the subject of ERP and enterprise software who appears to have some real knowledge of this market. His most recent piece on The Future of ERP is a sound reporting of the happenings of the last year since the world’s asset [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Software | Tagged all-in-one, best of breed, erp, integration, netsuite, SaaS, sap, smb, sme, Web service
By Tom Foydel on November 16, 2009
It is being reported online that Oracle has started a significant RIF (reduction in force) process in their consulting division. ZDnet’s Irregular Enterprise has a post about it today that brings up some good points. As a former Oracle consultant I wanted to weigh in as I think this is a worthwile subject to understand [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Consultants, Consulting, consulting margins, implementation, layoff, netsuite, on-premise, on-premise software, oracle, SaaS, si, small and medium enterprise, smb, software margins, systems integrator, Technology for the Small to Medium Enterprise
