Entries Tagged as 'microsoft'
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 [...]
Category: Cloud CRM SaaS salesforce automation Software as a Service Tags: CRM, Magic Quadrant, microsoft, oracle, Pivotal, Sage software, Sales force automation, salesforce.com, SAP, sugarcrm, Zoho
by Robert Desisto | April 4, 2012 | Comments Off
My colleague Michael Maoz and I have just published an Impact Appraisal on the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Q2 2012 Service Update. Key elements of the Microsoft’s release are increased mobile options, enhancements to customization for it’s online version, and analytics.
Category: Applications Cloud CRM Customer Service SaaS salesforce automation Software as a Service Tags: CRM, microsoft, salesforce automation
by Robert Desisto | September 16, 2011 | Comments Off
It was assumed that the CRM SaaS market would be a zero sum game. Success of Microsoft would come at the expense of market share leader salesforce.com. However, there is evidence to the contrary. Two specific market events directly go against the prevailing wisdom that Microsoft’s gain would be Salesforce.com’s loss, or vice versa. Salesforce.com [...]
Category: Cloud CRM SaaS salesforce automation Software as a Service Tags: microsoft, oracle, SaaS; Cloud Computing;, salesforce.com
by Robert Desisto | September 8, 2011 | Comments Off
Spurned on by recent press hype, I have been inundated with calls from clients about a supposedly new concept called SaaS Enterprise License Agreements. Despite claims made by some vendors this is not a new concept, even for vendors who are making claims that it is new have been offering it for years. Sometimes vendors [...]
Category: Cloud CRM SaaS Software as a Service Vendor Contracts Tags: Enterprise License Agreements, microsoft, Netsuite, oracle, SaaS; Cloud Computing;, salesforce.com, Successfactors, Workday
by Robert Desisto | July 18, 2011 | Comments Off
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 [...]
Category: Applications Cloud CRM Software as a Service Tags: Cloud, CRM, microsoft, Netsuite, oracle, Pivotal, SaaS, Sage software, Sales force automation, sales people, salesforce.com, SAP, sugarcrm, Zoho
