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 The first "Ulitzer New Media Power Panel" took place today at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. Streamed live to 60,000 viewers via SYS-CON.TV, the panel was moderated by Jeremy Geelan. Geelan's guests in the first power panel were Ian Thain and Tim Crawford...Nov. 5, 2009 07:45 PM EST Reads: 418 |
 This is a deal that has been around for all of this year, and I know the NYC-based guy charged with pulling the technical pieces together. He has been looking at software platforms for months and separating contenders from pretenders based on the criteria he's established. To my knowle...Nov. 4, 2009 03:15 PM EST Reads: 358 |
 One of the most hotly debated questions among marketers and company executives is “What does it mean to be a social business?”Today Acquia, Inc., the enterprise guide to the Drupal social publishing system provides the answer and also reveals what Social Business Software vendors aren’...Oct. 30, 2009 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 513 |
 Deskforce has signed an agreement with New Zealand based ActionStep to deliver ActionStep's CRM-based hosted solution to the service provider's 30,000 install base and to target new market sectors, via its established network of Managed Service Providers (MSPs). Deskforce is a provider...Oct. 30, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 357 |
 Each year, Deloitte compiles a prestigious list of technology companies pushing the limits of innovation, and this year global Web hosting provider Layered Technologies ranked 60th on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500, achieving a position in the top 12 percent for its impressive growth a...Oct. 29, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 393 |
 Microsoft has cut non-exclusive deals with both Facebook and Twitter for Bing to search their real-time data feeds. Google has followed suit at least with Twitter, but Facebook is the prize because it has like 40 million updates a day from its 300 million users. Not all Facebook update...Oct. 23, 2009 07:30 PM EDT Reads: 994 |
 This alliance will enhance BigMachines' and EDL Consulting's existing solutions. BigMachines enables sales teams, channel partners and resellers to quickly configure products, generate quotes and proposals, manage complex pricing, generate legal contracts, and submit and manage orders....Oct. 23, 2009 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 547 |
 The pace at which content is being added to the web has increased dramatically and so has the value of aggregating the best. How will the content aggregation landscape change in the next few years? What will the impact on content aggregation be as the semantic web starts to really tak...Oct. 23, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 483 |
 Open-Xchange, a provider of open source groupware, and SugarCRM, a provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, today announced a cooperation to integrate data from SugarCRM and Open-Xchange collaboration software. The integration enables users to...Oct. 21, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 448 |
 SplendidCRM continues to evolve with the incorporation of the Silverlight 3 Toolkit to replace the previous flash-based and hand-made charts. “We continue to pioneer the use of XAML-only graphics as a means to promote rapid application development”, noted Paul Rony, President and Foun...Oct. 20, 2009 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,036 |
 The French subsidiary of Condé Nast S.A., one of the world's largest private communications groups (Advance Magazine Publishers Inc.), has selected Ingres, the leading open source database management company and pioneer of The New Economics of IT, to develop a critical application to ...Oct. 20, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 527 |
 Dell, itself a user, is gonna pitch saleforce.com’s on-demand CRM widgetry to American SMBs on its web site under a deal announced Monday. Dell, newly service-minded, will offer to integrate the stuff into customers’ existing set-ups along with Dell servers hawking data migration and p...Oct. 16, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 690 |
 SAP AG has announced that utility companies across the globe are adopting SAP AMI® Integration for Utilities software in 2009. The offering, introduced in May 2009, helps utility companies better integrate their metering processes with their backend systems, providing end-to-end clarit...Oct. 14, 2009 03:11 AM EDT Reads: 572 |
 Trimble announced today that Oracle has developed an extension which allows Oracle Field Service Applications (part of Oracle E-Business Suite) users to add Trimble's GeoManager solution to create an enterprise-level intelligent scheduling and dispatching platform for field service org...Oct. 12, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 470 |
 Twitter is supposedly talking to Microsoft and Google – no, silly, in two separate rooms – about data mining. Twitter wants to sell a full feed from its service that could be integrated into the results of their search engines. Twitter is now up to 54 million monthly users. Reportedly ...Oct. 9, 2009 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 576 |
 Amazon Payments LLC, an Amazon.com company, has announced the availability of the Amazon Mobile Payments Service (Amazon MPS), providing developers, merchants and distributors of mobile applications an easy way to process payments from mobile devices and extend Amazon’s 1-Click checkou...Oct. 5, 2009 03:03 AM EDT Reads: 417 |
 The first of four new Atomic PR offices planned opened this month in London with an initial staff of five, and will serve as the hub for Atomic's European operations. The office's starting client portfolio includes global security leader ArcSight, global smart grid technology provider ...Sep. 30, 2009 07:30 PM EDT Reads: 488 |
 Avenue100 Media Solutions, a digital marketing company, has announced the continued expansion of its engineering and marketing teams to propel its continued industry and revenue growth. Growing its team and revenue more than 30 percent in the past year, Avenue100 will also be moving it...Sep. 29, 2009 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 755 |
 San Jose, Calif. –Sept. 28, 2009 – Seasoned trial attorney and litigator Robert M. Vantress announced today the formation of Vantress Law Group, a new San Jose boutique firm that is focused on complex litigation matters including intellectual property, computer and Internet, employment...Sep. 28, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 681 |
 Silicon Valley IP Attorney Robert Vantress launched today his law blog on Ulitzer. Robert's blog entries will be published Intellectual Property in Silicon Valley. Robert was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and now devote his law practice to subjects of interest to those ...Sep. 27, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 554 |
 IBM is buying the business of RedPill Solutions, a privately held company in Singapore that sells advanced customer analytics services to businesses in financial services, telecommunications, technology and hospitality. Financial details were not disclosed. It should help it compete fo...Sep. 25, 2009 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 697 |
 Well, well, well, a little bird points to IBM as gumming up the works with the European Commission so Oracle and Sun can’t close their deal.
Oracle of course picked up Sun after IBM’s negotiations with Sun failed and Oracle made IBM the intended target of the proposed acquisition in...Sep. 25, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,966 |
 Brickfish, the social media platform, has announced its expansion into the business of licensing its patent-pending and award-winning social media tools to the broader online publishing community. These partnerships will enable other Web publishers, large or small, to leverage Brickfis...Sep. 21, 2009 08:25 AM EDT Reads: 670 |
 n-Track Software announces today the release of version 6.0.6 of the n-Track Studio music recording and editing software www.ntrack.com The update, free to existing v6.x users, adds support for the latest version of the VST plugin standard, developed by Steinberg and widely used by 3rd...Sep. 18, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 618 |
 CloudTrigger in partnership with Advanced Image Direct have created a new Customer Relationship Management solution, Cloud2Mail that enables SalesForce.com users to send real mail with just a click of a button, it's as easy as sending email. CloudTrigger LLC (San Diego, CA) in conjunct...Sep. 18, 2009 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 533 |
 The Canadian Marketing Association, Calgary Chapter (CMA Calgary) will host a luncheon event "The Seven Deadly Sins of Social Media Marketing" featuring prominent author, speaker, and marketing consultant Darren Barefoot on Wednesday September 30, 2009 at the Fairmont Palliser Hotel.Sep. 16, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,051 |
 Salesforce.com Journal
Ray DePena launched today Salesforce.com Journal on Ulitzer. De Pena worked at IBM for the past 13 years in various senior global roles in programs, marketing, and business development. He holds an M.B.A. from New York University’s Stern School of Business, an...Sep. 15, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,079 |
 With 3PAR, TrafficBroker has gone from a complex and poorly performing environment to a highly agile and efficient virtual datacenter running on a single, consolidated 3PAR InServ® Storage Server. TrafficBroker's unique performance-based payment terms for their customers give the marke...Sep. 14, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,035 |
 Cordys Process Factory offers easy exchange of situational business apps for customers and partners Cordys, a leading provider of software for business process innovation has launched Cordys Process Factory Marketplace, where anyone can find or publish MashApps or s... Sep. 12, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 847 |
 A CRM solution can have an enormously positive effect on your business's bottom line, but a lot can go wrong during a rollout if you haven't planned properly. Follow these 10 steps to help ensure that your CRM implementation is a success, from the planning stages to post-deployment imp...Sep. 11, 2009 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,961 |
 The right SFA solution can be an enormous benefit to your company's sales reps, as it can help them automate operations, eliminate errors, and forecast revenues. But, as is the case with any technology, you need to consider several important factors to make sure you end up with a solut...Sep. 11, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,985 |
 Download this side-by-side comparison guide that breaks down the industry's top 15 CRM players (including Salesforce.com, RightNow Technologies, NetSuite, Microsoft, Entellium, SugarCRM and Oracle) so you can quickly and easily compare the features and costs of each. Sep. 11, 2009 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,870 |
 Considering an IP PBX or VoIP phone system? Download the VoIP News Buyer's Guide to help you make an informed decision. The IP PBX Buyer's Guide analyzes: key requirements, basic features, vendor offerings, pros & cons, and more. . . Learn what an IP PBX System can do for you and under...Sep. 11, 2009 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,806 |
 Compare leading VoIP Phone System and IP PBX companies like Avaya, Fonality, Nortel, Siemens and more, all in one place. VoIP News has prepared a detailed comparison of small and medium business phone and IP PBX systems. The guide examines: Installation & Features, Management & Adminis...Sep. 11, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,043 |
 According to the PRSA, the social media revolution has created a highly-competitive environment in which the PR, interactive marketing, and advertising communities must constantly vie for consumers' attention through these rapidly-changing platforms. As a result, social media must now ...Sep. 10, 2009 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,097 |
 Callidus Software has unveiled its Callidus Commissions Manager solution. Commissions Manager is a 100% native Force.com solution that delivers a compelling, easy-to-use application that can be rapidly deployed and can help companies drive adoption of Salesforce CRM. The solution enab...Sep. 9, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 538 |
 SugarCRM, a provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, has announced the availability of Sugar Community Edition on Amazon EC2 to provide CRM developers with an easy-to-deploy development environment in the cloud. Sugar Community Edition is avai...Sep. 9, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 820 |
 Personal Branding Journal launched today on Ulitzer. The latest Ulitzer topic is created by Wiliam Arruda and edited by Dr. Hubert Rampersad. The latest Ulitzer topic also offers news, articles and blog entries by: Susan Guarneri, Chris Perry, John Ryan, Ambal Balakrishnan, Newt Barret...Sep. 7, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,569 |
 Lee Novak, a Sales Management Executive for 25 years, uses a proven people-first, client-first philosophy. He has a reputation for building teams that not only are high-performance groups but also that do business the right way, at the right time and for the right reasons. He received ...Sep. 6, 2009 09:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,004 |
 Business leader, best-selling author and Hall of Fame speaker Scott McKain joined Ulitzer with his blog syndication at http://mckainviewpoint.ulitzer.com. Scott McKain is the Co-founder and Principal of The Value Added Institute, a think-tank that examines the role of the customer expe...Aug. 26, 2009 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,895 |
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