Category Data Management

Outtask Acquires Aspen’s ASP Hosting Division

Business service provider Outtask, Inc., is acquiring Aspen’s ASP hosting division’s customer base. As the ASP hosting entity for Aspen’s customers, the Alexandria, Va.-based Outtask will provide these companies with customer relations management applications from Siebel and financial applications from…

The Lesser of Two Evils

In an effort to prevent future layoffs and maintain company longevity, 36 percent of the employees at Acxiom® Corporation voluntarily participated in a unique cost-saving operation — pay cuts in exchange for stock options. The fact that Acxiom has been…

Let Your Data Do the Walking

Believe it or not, there are mobile sales professionals who still rely on the same tools that Willie Loman used decades ago–rolodexes and shoeboxes stuffed full of business cards. But paper-based systems are an inefficient way to track customer contacts,…