Robert Desisto

Jim Holincheck and I wrote a research note on the impact Oracle’s, SAP’s and salesforce.com’s recent SaaS acquisitions will have on client organizations. The ink is not even dry on the research note, and Oracle buys Taleo. As Jim and I say in the research, SaaS acquisitions will accelerate and client organizations need to protect [...]

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Category: Applications CRM Cloud ERP     Tags: SaaS;Cloud Computing

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Cloud computing is having a major impact on business operations. We just published a Gartner Special report, The Future of Cloud Business Applications, that assesses the current cloud computing “state of play” in business domains such as marketing, sales, customer service, finance, and human resources to name a few. The special report provides an overview [...]

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Check out the 2011 Sales Force Automation Magic Quadrant (released on July 15th, 2011). Mobility continues to grow in importance for users; therefore, it has also become a more critical component of our evaluation criteria for the sales force automation (SFA) Magic Quadrant. Smartphones and iPads (see “iPads: Customer-Facing Selling Will Drive iPad Use for [...]

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Category: Applications CRM Cloud Software as a Service     Tags: Cloud, CRM, microsoft, Netsuite, oracle, Pivotal, SaaS, Sage software, Sales force automation, sales people, salesforce.com, SAP, sugarcrm, Zoho

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On 1 March 2011, SAP previewed its updated Sales OnDemand solution at CeBIT 2011 in Hanover, Germany. Neither pricing nor an official release date has been determined, but the product will be available for early customer involvement in April 2011. The new offering reflects a trend toward social technology in CRM applications with a people-centric [...]

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Category: Applications CRM Cloud ERP SaaS Software as a Service     Tags: CRM, SaaS; Cloud Computing;, Sales force automation, SAP

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