Salesforce is known as the leader in CRM, but wouldn’t it be great if you could also used it for Marketing Automation? A marketer’s life would be so much easier if he or she can have one solution to capture, store, score and nurture contacts. Lauren Carlson from Software Advice wrote a great article today…
Intacct, a leader in cloud financial management and accounting applications, today announced an exclusive partnership with SCORE, America’s premier source of free and confidential small business advice for entrepreneurs, which will benefit more than a million entrepreneurs that are using SCORE to help start and grow their businesses. In today’s press release, Intacct and SCORE said…
With the recent completed acquisition of Dimdim, announced Thursday Jan 6, salesforce aims to bring real-time messaging and collaboration tools to its Facebook-style enterprise collaboration service Chatter. Founded in 2007, Dimdim provides its users with a cheap alternative for setting up online and remote meetings. That includes real-time messaging, screen sharing and other additional services….
With more than half a billion users, Facebook is practically a goldmine for marketers to advertise their business. Facebook social marketing helps deepen relationships with existing customers, improve ROI, and build communities around the business. With a low advertising budgets, you can effectively choose your audience by location, demographics, and psychographics, as well as A/B…
Gartner, Inc., has positioned Savvis in the leaders quadrant in the Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Web Hosting. The report authored by Gartner analysts Ted Chamberlin and Lydia Leong, was published on Dec. 23 and features several cloud hosting providers such as Amazon, GoGrid, Rackspace, and Terremark. The Gartner report can be accessed at…
Private cloud computing has some advantages over public could for small and midsized companies (SMBs). While public cloud’s advantage includes low upfront cost, with practically infinite scalability, it has a significant downside especially in accountability, security, and lock-in. Like their large enterprise counterparts, SMBs must store and protect critical data – often customer data –…
The “Cloud” has become the biggest buzzword in technology today and it is having a revolutionary impact on small to medium size businesses (SMBs), especially in the way they market their business. In order to optimize their spending, small businesses have to be creative when it comes to marketing resources. Most small businesses cannot afford…
2010 was a big year for Cloud Computing and as the year approaches to an end we take a look and the top Cloud Computing stories of the year that made headlines around the world. Oracle Moves To The Cloud Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corp has not been a big supporter of Cloud Computing…
Rackspace announced today its first managed cloud offering, Cloud Servers with a managed service level. The San Antonio-based company says that this will give them an edge over commodity cloud players like Amazon Web Services. According to Rackspace, the Managed Cloud offering provides businesses with proactive monitoring, troubleshooting, and advice on how to best leverage…
Dreamforce is always Silicon Valley’s liveliest event, but this year’s event was especially great, with lots of shocking announcements and plenty of entertainment. Bill Clinton, Stevie Wonder, Will.I.Am from the BlackEyesPeas, the Bush impersonator and the Microsoft’s customer who didn’t get forced were among the featured guests at the event. For a recap of last…