Robert Desisto

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Salesforce.com’s App-Based Pricing Benefits Some, but Is More Expensive for Others

by Robert Desisto  |  April 18, 2013  |  1 Comment

Salesforce.com changed pricing for Force.com on 4 March 2013, from a per-user, per-month price to a price based on per application, per user, per month. Force.com user-based pricing had basically two options: Enterprise Edition ($50 per user, per month) and Unlimited Edition ($75 per user, per month). The primary differences between the two editions were [...]

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Gartner 2013 CRM Sales Predictions

by Robert Desisto  |  January 2, 2013  |  Comments Off

In 2013, Sales application managers will try to understand the impact of social, mobile, cloud and big data on their sales applications strategy. Our 2013 CRM Sales Predicts provides guidance in all four areas. They key findings in our report include: Internet bandwidth increases and accessibility will accelerate sales force automation deployment movement to the [...]

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Gartner 2013 Software as a Service Predictions

by Robert Desisto  |  December 27, 2012  |  5 Comments

Our 2013 Software as a Service (SaaS) predictions focus on the increasing role Platform as a Service (PaaS) will play with SaaS, new opportunities for SaaS in IT management and emerging geographies such as China. We also offer our predictions on the future of SLAs, and the increasing role of internal CSBs. Key findings from [...]

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The Death of the Laptop

by Robert Desisto  |  October 23, 2012  |  2 Comments

At Gartner US Symposium, I have done 20 one on one meetings with clients in the first two days. In 18 of the meetings clients used iPads. In only 2 of the meetings clients used laptops. I even used my own iPad to go over some decsion frameworks using the Gartner iPad App (if you [...]

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Non Price Book Option Could Help You Save Money On Salesforce.com contracts

by Robert Desisto  |  August 13, 2012  |  Comments Off

Although it wasn’t publicized on its website, salesforce.com enables its customers to purchase its Sales Cloud Professional solution, with add-on Enterprise Edition features at no additional cost. Just wrote a detailed research note, Save Money With Salesforce.com’s Professional and a la Carte Enterprise Features, that helps clients evaluate whether this option makes sense for them.

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Cloud, Mobile, Social and Analytics Dominate 2012 CRM Sales Hype Cycle

by Robert Desisto  |  July 20, 2012  |  1 Comment

In 2011, more than $5 billion was invested in sales applications. Sales organizations are focusing their sales application investments on the differentiation and innovation of application pace layers. This has led to an uptick in analytics, cloud-based offerings and mobile device deployments. Sales performance management and lead management have also gotten more attention, because sales [...]

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2012 Sales Force Automation Magic Quadrant Released

by Robert Desisto  |  July 19, 2012  |  Comments Off

The 2012 Sales Force Automation Magic Quadrant is officially published. We had one new leader emerge, one vendor drop from inclusion and a new product added that was not included in the 2011 Magic Quadrant. The magic quadrant evaluation process had the usual vendor claims, “Why is Vendor “A” have a better position than we [...]

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Why Service Level Agreements Count for Cloud Computing

by Robert Desisto  |  July 11, 2012  |  5 Comments

In the past few weeks there have been major outages by a high profile cloud infrastructure provider and a large SaaS vendor, both of whom have had a reasonably good track records. Unfortunately, much of the attention in the press and even by some analysts has been devoted into what went wrong versus providing advice [...]

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Death of On Premises Vendors Greatly Exaggerated

by Robert Desisto  |  May 25, 2012  |  1 Comment

Sap’s acquisitions of SuccessFactors and now Ariba are examples of rapid consolidation of SaaS providers by large established on premises vendors. Oracle’s acquisition of Rightnow, and Taleo are further cases in point. Conventional wisdom was the cloud would be so disruptive to software industry titans that their long term viability would be questionable. Many forgot [...]

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Comparing On Premises and SaaS Total Cost of Ownership

by Robert Desisto  |  May 4, 2012  |  1 Comment

For the past few years the great debate is whether Software as a Service is less expensive to implement and maintain than on premises applications. My colleague, Fran Karamouzis, and I have created a total cost of ownership model to compare SaaS and on on premises delivery models. Our decision framework allows the user to [...]

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