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Sunday - May 11, 2008
In a challenging economy, you must find new ways to make marketing work more effectively, get more out of marketing investments, and measure and account for marketing decisions. In short, you must make changes. Doing the same things in an uncertain economic environment and expecting the same results is, at worst, a definition of marketing insanity. At best, it is a flawed strategy. How can your company be one of those success stories that market and grow their business during challenging economic times? [More...]
Saturday - May 10, 2008
Typically, new technologies tend to promise more than they deliver. That has not been the case with Web services, which are being integrated into just about every new e-commerce application. "Support for Web services has come from application vendors, application development tool suppliers and middleware vendors," said Jason Bloomberg, a managing partner with market research firm ZapThink. [More...]
Wednesday - May 7, 2008
SAP will offer new business process and rules management capabilities for its NetWeaver service-oriented architecture platform. NetWeaver Business Process Management and NetWeaver Business Rules Management will allow companies to build or change business processes and rules without coding. [More...]
Monday - May 5, 2008
"Too much information is a dangerous thing" -- how often have we all heard that expression? Maybe it should be "too much inaccurate information is a catastrophic thing." Never has so much data been collected and stored within organizations. Smart organizations want to make use of this data, not only to keep the organization going, but also to gain competitive advantage. [More...]
Saturday - May 3, 2008
Teller-line capture. Customer relationship management software. Real-time alerts. Threat detection and recovery, branch automation, in all its flavors, is here to stay, and community bankers are increasingly embracing it. Atlantic Southern Bank, decided to automate the way it reviewed its financial numbers by signing on with Banker's Dashboard. The results were immediate. [More...]
Thursday - May 1, 2008
While demand generation professionals consistently turn to a wide variety of direct marketing software and e-mail marketing tools in search of sales leads, current research by Aberdeen points to a significant spend associated with a more human element: outsourced B2B teleservices, provided by a large array of vendors offering different models of phone-based support by outside agencies. [More...]
Thursday - May 1, 2008
It's a phrase that we hear all too frequently: "We're moving off our mainframe." Yet virtually anyone who has ever had a mainframe continues to utilize it in some fashion. These robust and highly functional legacy systems contain years and years of data, and when you're talking about abandoning them altogether, you're also talking about a huge chunk of change. The truth is the mainframe is not disappearing. [More...]
Wednesday - April 30, 2008
SAP disappointed investors Wednesday when it delayed the rollout of its new Business ByDesign software product and reported weaker-than-expected first-quarter results. At 11:31 a.m., shares of SAP were down about $2.26 or 4.38 percent at about $49.21, while the DAX index was at 6,884.42 points, down 0.88 points or 0.01 percent. [More...]
Monday - April 28, 2008
Combining in-memory data management, visual analytics, social networking and rich Internet applications, Software as a Service and open source software development, companies such as Advizor Solutions, Fractal Edge, Greenplum, LucidEra and others are filling what was an open niche in the BI marketplace, Gartner's BI research team has found. [More...]
Thursday - April 24, 2008
With the rapid advance of SaaS offerings, data warehouse or business intelligence appliances, and BI capabilities embedded within enterprise applications, companies are now faced with a variety of new deployment options for BI. Traditional on-premise software installations still prevail as the dominant method for BI deployment, but alternative approaches are rapidly taking root and gaining attention within the maturing BI marketplace. [More...]
Wednesday - April 23, 2008
It's official. With the general availability of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, Microsoft is now formally a player -- a big one -- in the online CRM space. The general availability release seems almost anticlimactic, given that so many of its features and functions are the same as those in Dynamics CRM 4.0. [More...]

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