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6 Ways Cloud ERP Is Revolutionizing How Services Deliver Results

6 Ways Cloud ERP Is Revolutionizing How Services Deliver Results

By Louis Columbus on July 5, 2017

Cloud ERP is the fastest growing sector of the global ERP market with services-based businesses driving the majority of new revenue growth. Legacy Services ERP providers excel at meeting professional & consulting services information needs yet often lack the flexibility and speed to support entirely new services business models. Configure-Price-Quote (CPQ) is quickly emerging as a must-have […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud Computing, cloud computing landscape, Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning, Cloud ERP, Enterprise Cloud Computing, Enterprise resource planning, enterprise software, erp, Financialforce, Louis Columbus' blog, sap, software as a service

How Crowded Is “The Cloud”?

How Crowded Is “The Cloud”?

By Esteban Kolsky on January 19, 2016

A few months ago I asked you to help us (Famous Analyst to the Stars and partner Denis Pombriant and I) with research we were conducting around cloud adoption. I told you our initial thesis was that cloud adoption was – er, well.. complicated.  We are not even talking about cloud architecture (public versus  private […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Financialforce, Forbes, Research Report | 2 Responses

The tyranny of spreadsheets

The tyranny of spreadsheets

By Denis Pombriant on September 30, 2015

As a former sales and marketing guy I am more than familiar with spreadsheets as a not-so-good tool for managing the avalanche of data generated by the front office even before the big data craze. Name a department or function in business and you can easily find someone using a spreadsheet to manage it—often poorly […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged CRM, customer excellence, Financialforce, platform, spreadsheets

Sage and Salesforce: Odd Couple Alliance?

Sage and Salesforce: Odd Couple Alliance?

By Denis Pombriant on April 17, 2015

I have been expecting this announcement for a long time but it still came as a surprise when Keith Block, vice chairman Salesforce, made an off the cuff remark in Boston at the Salesforce World Tour event last week. In February Sage and Salesforce announced that they’d work together with Sage moving some of its […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Act, Cloud Computing, CRM, erp, Financialforce, kenandy, netsuite, platform, Sage, salesforce, salesforce1

FinancialForce Investment

FinancialForce Investment

By Denis Pombriant on March 26, 2015

It takes prodigious amounts of moola to launch a company these days and that’s especially true when trying to insert a new idea into the collective consciousness. Salesforce spent well over $100 million to convince us that SaaS CRM was real, Zuora has raised nearly 2X that amount defining the subscription economy, and cloud ERP […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged benioff, erp, Financialforce, microsoft, netsuite, Salesforce Ventures, salesforce1, sap, TCV

Platform Native

Platform Native

By Denis Pombriant on October 20, 2014

A number of Salesforce AppExchange partners including Apttus, Kenandy and ServiceMax formed an alliance called the Force United Consortium back in April but I hadn’t had the chance to talk to anyone about it. It’s a cool idea and a way to differentiate a partner that makes good use of the Salesforce1 Platform. I got […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged #df14, AppExchange, Apttus, CRM, Dreamforce, Financialforce, Intacct, kenandy, salesforce, salesforce.com, servicemax | 1 Response

Platforms: What FinancialForce, Xactly, and Hubspot Understand

Platforms: What FinancialForce, Xactly, and Hubspot Understand

By Esteban Kolsky on October 6, 2014

Platforms – can’t live with them… pass the potatoes. I know, we all hate platforms. The crux of the problem is explaining what a platform is and how it works, I can write for ages about the details and go into nitpicking details – and never publish.  The closest I got to it was the […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud Computing, Financialforce, financialforce.com, force.com, HubSpot, Platform as a service, salesforce.com, software as a service, Xactly

News Analysis: Salesforce 1 Signals Support For Digital Business at #DF13

News Analysis: Salesforce 1 Signals Support For Digital Business at #DF13

By R "Ray" Wang on November 18, 2013

Salesforce Seeks To Tackle Digital Business At Dreamforce Over 125,000 virtual and physical registrants descend on San Francisco the week of November 17th for Dreamforce 13, a future of technology meets SXSW event.  One day in advance of the largest enterprise software event of its kind, Salesforce.com announces Salesforce 1 (see Figure 1).  The Salesforce […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Apps Strategy, Big Data, BigData, Box, Business Analytics, business disruption, business impact, Business Outcomes, Business Transformation, CDO, CEO, Chief Customer Officer, Chief Digital Officer, Chief information officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Sales Officer, CIO, Cloud, CMO, CoIT, Concur, Constellation Research, CRM, CustExp, customer engagement, Customer Experience, customer experience management, customer relationship management, CXP, Data to Decisions, data visualization, Data2Decisions, df12, df13, Digital Business, Digital Strategy, disruptive, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, DocuSign, Dreamforce, dropbox, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, eVariant, Evernote, Exact Target, FileBoard, Financialforce, force.com, Force.com platform, heroku, hp, innovation, kenandy, linkedin, Marc Benioff, mobile, mobile enterprise, News Analysis, Next generation apps, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, salesforce.com, ScanBizCards, servicemax, socbiz, social business, Social Media, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, TAS group, user conference, vendor events, vendor strategy, workday, Xactly | 1 Response

Why Salesforce Is Winning The Cloud Platform War

Why Salesforce Is Winning The Cloud Platform War

By Louis Columbus on October 17, 2013

The future of any enterprise software vendor is being decided today in their developer community. Alex William’s insightful thoughts on Salesforce Is A Platform Company. Period. underscores how rapidly Salesforce is maturing as a cloud platform.  And the best measure of that progress can be seen in their developer community. (To be clear, Salesforce and the other companies mentioned […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Apttus, Cloud Computing, CRM, Financialforce, force.com, Louis Columbus' blog, SaaS, SaaS Early Adopter Research, salesforce, salesforce.com, servicemax, software as a service | 1 Response

Applications that are Social

Applications that are Social

By Michael Fauscette on September 20, 2012

I’m spending the week at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference (more on that in a post coming shortly) and at the partner keynote on Tuesday I watched a product demo that got me thinking about this concept that I wrote about a…

Posted in Business | Tagged Concur, Concurforce, CRM, df12, Dreamforce, Financialforce, force.com, Salesforce Chatter, salesforce.com, socbiz, Social, social business

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