Microsoft CRM and Varicent, Oracle Siebel's CRM
Varicent Software , which sells incentive compensation and sales performance management products, has announced what company officials are calling "an integrated product" with Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
Devil’s Dictionary for High Tech - Part 1
The Devil’s dictionary is a book created in the early 20th century by American Ambrose Bierce containing sarcastic, ironic and witty re-definitions of words. e.g
PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them...
Read more about Devil’s Dictionary for High Tech - Part 1...SaaS is bad...
I've written quite a bit here about the dangers of adopting single vendor suites in terms of vendor lock in, and about how SaaS applications present a compelling value proposition for businesses as well as a disruptive threat to the existing...
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A couple of months ago, I talked about how important managing employee performance was to the overall success of the business. If anything has changed in those last two months, it is that employee performance is a bigger deal than ever. If you own...
Read more about Employee Performance Made (Much) Easier..."Cloud of Clouds"
2008 Recap In 2008, we saw the early seeds of a "cloud of clouds" emerging. It started in April with Salesforce and Google announcing integration between Google Apps and Salesforce to bridge the gap between Google's productivity applications and...
Read more about "Cloud of Clouds" ...Why Process Matters
I have a job that most people would find either very interesting or very boring. I’ll let you decide which, but essentially my job is to help people quantify the financial benefits of Optimizing their Investment in their people. Which people? ...
Read more about Why Process Matters...My Favorite Blogs & Websites of 2008
Following are the top 20 websites / blogs that I pay most attention to as per FeedDemon. The snapshot on the left was captured in June (for comparison) while the one on right reflects my current reading...
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