Key Themes from SAP TechEd 2011–How Do They Relate to SMBs?

Posted on September 21, 2011 by lauriemccabe

As the name implies, SAP TechEd offers technical education, such as hands-on workshops, deep-dive lectures and sessions with SAP technical experts about all things SAP. That said, TechEd isn’t for everyone, and it’s no wonder that most of the 6,500+ attendees at SAP TechEd 2011, held the week of September 12 in Las Vegas, were [...]

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Dell Cloud Business Applications: One Stop Shop for SMBs?

Posted on September 9, 2011 by lauriemccabe

Last week at Dreamforce 2011 , Dell announced Dell Cloud Business Applications, a new integrated, single sign-on approach to business solutions aimed at small and medium businesses (SMBs) with 50 to 500 employees. In the first release, Dell Cloud Business Applications include Salesforce CRM, Boomi technology to integrate Salesforce with financial applications (either on-premise and [...]

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Take the Poll: Is Salesforce.com becoming too complex for your SMB?

Posted on September 7, 2011 by lauriemccabe

In the post, Is Salesforce Outgrowing SMBs? I discussed Salesforce.com’s new social enterprise vision, and questioned how it will work for SMBs. If you are part of a small or medium business, I’d like your thoughts!

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Is Salesforce.com Outgrowing SMBs?

Posted on September 7, 2011 by lauriemccabe

Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff is a great visionary with a big appetite for change. From packaged software to the cloud, from CRM to platform-as-a-service, he’s painted a color by number picture for businesses to emulate. But does his latest work, “the social enterprise” come with an easy enough guide for small businesses to paint it? The [...]

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Reflections on Dreamforce 2011: Now the Cloud Can Ride the Waves

Posted on September 6, 2011 by lauriemccabe

This year, Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce event–with a record-setting 45,000 attendees–got me thinking about the early days before the cloud was the cloud, how far its come, and how perfectly poised it is to ride the waves now driving technology adoption–mobile and social solutions. Traveling in the Way Back Machine In a galaxy long ago and far [...]

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