Beacon technology was supposed to revolutionize the way that businesses interacted with their customers, but so far it hasn’t lived up to the hype. That’s not to say that Apple’s iBeacon standard, Google’s competing open source beacon technology Eddystone and…
Salesforce Making its CRM software “smarter” is a theme Salesforce has been hitting pretty hard. Last summer it paid $390 million for data science startup RelateIQ, a purchase that RelateIQ cofounder and CEO Steve Loughlin promised in a blog post…
By Holly Rudolph Thank goodness it’s…Tuesday? Maybe, if you’re trying to close a sale — and you’re in Australia. Tuesday stood out as the best day of the week for closing a sale Down Under when Pipedrive, a developer of…
It’s impossible to imagine making good business decisions without the right information to back up the decision making process. Business intelligence (BI) tools help by making it easy to extract and understand the information that you need from the mass…
Open source ERP accounts for a tiny portion of the overall ERP market, which is dominated by a handful of commercial products offered by well-known enterprise software vendors such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and Sage. Although there are plenty of…
The CRM marketplace is odd. While it’s dominated by some well-established heavyweights, it is also swarming with hundreds of upstart startups and more established, yet little-known, vendors. What explains the unusual makeup of this market? Five big boys account for…
By Mark Lorion, Apperian Enterprise mobile apps can be transformational for every department and across every industry. But to make an impact, apps need to be adopted. Whether an organization has a custom-built app, a third party app or a…
If the number of sessions at Microsoft’s inaugural Ignite conference is any indication, the company is placing a huge bet on Office 365’s success. Of the 674 recordings available for viewing, 81 — or 12 percent of the total —…
Online app stores have exploded onto the technology scene over the last half a dozen years. More recently enterprise app stores have become a thing. As a result, millions of people download and install applications onto their mobile devices, laptops…
By Cesar Fernandez, PMG Business management guru Tom Peters once said, “Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing, layout, processes and procedures.” Although this may be true, so many companies have a tendency to over engineer systems,…