By Michael Fauscette on April 27, 2012
I managed a few minutes out of my schedule last week to stop by the Yammer Tour event in San Francisco. I was in San Francisco doing a keynote for sugarCRM’s user event and luckily the events overlapped. As I…
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged case studies, collaboration, innovation, ROI, socbiz, value, yammer |
By R "Ray" Wang on January 4, 2011
Organizations Seek Measurable Results In Disruptive Tech, Next Gen Business, And Legacy Optimization Projects For 2011 Credits: Hugh MacLeod Enterprise leaders seek pragmatic, creative, and disruptive solutions that achieve both profitability and market differentiation. Cutting through the hype and buzz of the latest consumer tech innovations and disruptive technologies, Constellation Research expects business value to [...]
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By Michael Fauscette on November 27, 2010
According to the latest IDC Social Business survey approximately 41% of businesses surveyed have already implemented an enterprise social software solution. In a market (social platforms) that is growing ~38% CAGR over the next 5 years, quite a few of…
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged e2.0, ROI, SCRM, Social, social business, Social Media, value, Web 2.0 |
By R "Ray" Wang on March 8, 2010
Who Says Support Has To Be Bundled With Maintenance?
About a decade back, vendors would offer support and maintenance as two separate line items on their contracts. Support would run about 5 to 10% the license fee and so would maintenance. Keep in mind, average support and maintenance fees were under 15% back then. Here’s a [...]
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By Dion Hinchcliffe on December 23, 2009
The announcement last week of Amazon’s new EC2 Spot Instances was more than just another move considerably ahead of the rest of the industry by that forward-looking cloud computing leader. Spot Instances also heralds the beginnings of a real trading…
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged agility, Amazon, Business, Cloud Computing, enterprise, Enterprise Computing, Industry Trends, innovation, spot market, tco, Technology / Software, value |
