How Much Do You Think It Will Cost?
“How much do you think it will cost?” This is often a common question a manufacturer will ask themselves when developing new products and something that we as a manufacturing solutions provider we can help answer. When I go and see companies that aren’t using IFS solutions, one of the issues that they raise is the fact […]
Why Cloud Customer Success Is New Top Priority For Salesforce, Microsoft, Workday, SAP And Oracle
By: Bob Evans CLOUD WARS — As competition among top cloud vendors intensifies, customer success is rapidly emerging as a strategic differentiator far more important than snazzy technology. It seems dazzlingly obvious: we all want our customers to be successful, right? But the enterprise-tech industry hasn’t always earned a sterling reputation for delivering that type […]
4 Key Takeaways from IoT World 2018
By: Katharine Levarevich IoT World 2018 in Santa Clara united thousands of organizations and attendees, hundreds of speakers and exhibitors and dozens of IoT startups. It’s one of those yearly events where you can meet all cross-industry giants at one place – Microsoft, SAP, Avnet, Boeing, UPS, MasterCard, Bank of America, T Mobile, Google, […]
IBM Exec: We Have Ways to Stand Out in the Cloud Wars
By: Eric Jhonsa Though Amazon.com (AMZN – Get Report) , Microsoft (MSFT – Get Report) and Alphabet/Google’s (GOOGL – Get Report) public cloud platforms have been collectively taking a lot of share from smaller rivals, IBM (IBM – Get Report) insists it can hold its own. The 2018 version of research firm’s Gartner’s cloud infrastructure […]
IBM’s head of Watson likes Elon Musk but ‘hates’ A.I. scaremongering
By: Ryan Browne David Kenny, IBM’s senior vice president of Watson and Cloud, said artificial intelligence is already proving to be beneficial. He suggested that doomsday warnings from the likes of Tesla CEO Elon Musk were overblown. Warnings of artificial intelligence (AI) posing a threat to humanity are “not helpful,” a top executive at IBM […]
FinancialForce Announces Global Sales and Implementation Partnership with Appirio
FinancialForce, a leading customer-centric ERP cloud vendor built on the Salesforce Platform, announced a global sales and implementation partnership with Appirio, a Wipro company. This will help enable companies competing in the new services economy to leverage FinancialForce cloud technology to respond more rapidly to customer demands. The burgeoning new services economy demands a shift […]
How To Shortlist And Select An ERP Solution Like A Boss
Now that you’ve decided to implement an ERP solution within your business’ IT ecosystem, you will soon be facing the proposition of identifying one vendor out of a pool of many. But be aware: The decision to go ahead with a vendor can take a long time when it’s an enterprise resource planning product you’re […]
Why Cloud Customer Success Is New Top Priority For Salesforce, Microsoft, Workday, SAP And Oracle
By: Bob Evans CLOUD WARS — As competition among top cloud vendors intensifies, customer success is rapidly emerging as a strategic differentiator far more important than snazzy technology. It seems dazzlingly obvious: we all want our customers to be successful, right? But the enterprise-tech industry hasn’t always earned a sterling reputation for delivering that type […]
5G service is coming – and so are health concerns over the towers that support it
The wireless industry is in a race to roll out 5G service. The network is supposed to be up to 100 times faster than current data speeds, but it requires cellphone tower equipment to be closer to users than before. Wireless companies in the U.S. say they’ll have to install about 300,000 new antennas – […]
MORGAN STANLEY: Salesforce poised to clear ‘low bar’ in Tuesday’s earnings, with 37% stock gains by 2020 likely (CRM)
Salesforce is set to report its first quarter earnings on Tuesday, but Wall Street isn’t sweating it. Instead, analysts are curious how Salesforce will be impacted in the long-run, thanks to its $6.8 billion MuleSoft acquisition, which officially closed May 2. Morgan Stanley has high hopes, and sees a good chance of Salesforce meeting its […]