By Michael Fauscette on February 11, 2014
I got a little frustrated last week, with several ongoing projects with multiple deliverables and supporting content I found myself constantly playing "who’s got the most current version of the file" and "where is that doc I need to read…
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By Michael Fauscette on January 30, 2014
For the past couple of years I’ve focused more on marketing and customer service than on sales, but last Fall, Salesforce asked me to put together a presentation on the future of sales for Dreamforce. Just like the other 2 functions, sales is also feeling the pressure of change driven by the 3rd platform technologies […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on January 23, 2014
HootSuite Prepares For Enterprise Growth On January 22nd, 2014, Hootsuite announced its acquisition of analytics provider uberVU for an undisclosed sum. The Bucharest, Romania and Cambridge, MA based software company brings 42 employees and over 200 customers to HootSuite. Key insights for customers and prospects include: uberVu provides Hootsuite with enterprise class analytics. uberVU’s technology […]
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By Michael Fauscette on January 8, 2014
In part one and two of this series I spent a fair bit of time discussing the drivers for building a sense and respond, data driven business. The concept, I think, is pretty obvious when you put it into the…
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By Michael Fauscette on December 20, 2013
Here’s another installment from my video recording session with the eCornell team, this time looking at customer experience and meeting customer expectations. I’ve written and talked about this for some time, so none of it should be particularly new. In…
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By R "Ray" Wang on November 18, 2013
Salesforce Seeks To Tackle Digital Business At Dreamforce Over 125,000 virtual and physical registrants descend on San Francisco the week of November 17th for Dreamforce 13, a future of technology meets SXSW event. One day in advance of the largest enterprise software event of its kind, Salesforce.com announces Salesforce 1 (see Figure 1). The Salesforce […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on November 12, 2013
Age Is Not The Deciding Factor In Five Generations Of Workers When discussing the future of work, most folks immediately jump to the discussion of millennials, generation Y, generation X, baby boomers, post war, etc. However, the shift to digital business finds a different type of five generations. This segmentation describes how digitally proficient people […]
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By Michael Fauscette on October 31, 2013
Most companies have a number of enterprise systems, whether that’s financial, human resources, payroll, warehouse management, customer service or any number of other transaction based software products. The point of those systems is to provide a way to automate and create repeatable process around the business workflows and execute transactions. For Industrial Age businesses creating […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on October 21, 2013
tibbr Continues To Show Momentum In Customer Adoption And Addition Of Key Enterprise Social Features On October 14th to 17th 2013, the Tibbr enterprise social crowd mingled with the core Tibco faithful at this year’s TUCON 2013 user conference in Las Vegas. (An analysis of the broader Tibco announcements can be found from my colleague […]
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By Michael Fauscette on June 17, 2013
In part one of this series we looked at the ESN vendors and how they are evolving to help companies increase productivity and facilitate new ways of working. For this post we’ll focus on how the ESN’s are being used and in part three we’ll look at enterprise adoption and some of the results of […]
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