Pack Your Company DNA in The ERP Suitcase and Conquer The World!

ERP – a powerful tool for internationalization of companies! Startups often have an international approach from the very beginning when building their value chain. This was not the case 20 years ago, when the established growth-model was “Establish initially a solid domestic presence, followed by a cautious export to neighboring countries, and if successful then […]

Oracle doesn’t want Java EE any more

By:  Paul Krill Oracle wants to end its leadership in the development of enterprise Java and is looking for an open source foundation to take on the role. The company said today that the upcoming Java EE (Enterprise Edition) 8 presents an opportunity to rethink how the platform is developed. Although development is done via […]

Employer Surveillance Now Common and Accepted

By Andre Spicer Every technical innovation has brought with it a new way of watching over workers. CCTV allowed nosy managers to keep an eye on the shop when they were not around. Software systems have been used to track the number of keystrokes an administrator makes a minute, how often they move their mouse […]

Sentle Launches New Cloud Based CRM

New Loughborough University Enterprise Park based business Sentle are set to make an impact with their CRM which offers everything you expect and more in a brand-new cloud based CRM with a refreshing focus on the customer. Launched on 2nd August, the new Customer Relationship Management system is designed by experts in the world of […]

Salesforce certification: Your guide to a lucrative Salesforce career

By:  Sharon Florentine Salesforce certification can be a one-way ticket to a lucrative career. Salesforce is fully entrenched as the CRM platform of choice at many organizations, making it one of the fastest-growing, most in-demand skill sets today. From software developers, solutions architects and designers to project managers and marketing and sales professionals, Salesforce certification […]

NetSuite Partners Explore Consulting and Bi101 Join Forces

Leading NetSuite Solution Provider Partners Explore Consulting (Bellevue, WA) and Bi101 (Livermore, CA) announced today that they will join forces and operate under the Explore Consulting brand starting May 1, 2017. By combining these practices, Explore Consulting will leverage some key NetSuite resources from Bi101 and begin offering a broadened set of service offerings to […]

7 hot new IT jobs — and why they just might stick

By:  Paul Heltzel Unusual job titles aren’t new in the IT world. Before the Twitter ninja and social media rockstar, before the webmaster was hired to conjure up HTML sorcery, there was the software evangelist, an IT job title that merged the worlds of sales and religion. In the early ’80s an Apple executive coined […]

Cloudera Reports $79.6M in First Quarter Revenue After IPO

By:  Sean Michael Kerner Big Data vendor Cloudera had its Initial Public Offering (IPO) on April 28 and on June 8 reported its first quarterly earnings as a public company. For the quarter, Cloudera reported revenue of $79.6 million, which is a 41 percent year-over-year increase. Cloudera didn’t generate a profit on that revenue, instead […]

8 CRM Trends and Predictions

By:  Drew Robb What’s going on in CRM? What are the big trends that appeared in 2016 and what can we expect in 2017? 1. Old Guard Losing Ground The latest stats from Gartner show the continuation of a trend — the old guard losing ground. Once upon a time, Siebel was the big name […]

Salesforce Updates Its Next-Gen Customer Service Cloud

By:  Shirley Siluk Just named to Forbes’ list of “The World’s Most Innovative Companies” for the seventh year in a row, Salesforce recently updated its cloud-based CRM (customer relationship management) offering to make it easier for businesses to quickly launch customer communities, knowledge bases, and other advanced services. The next generation of Salesforce Service Cloud […]