Enterprise Apps

ReachForce, an on-demand provider of marketing databases, is making the jump into a related software niche. Last month, it made available on a limited basis Fountainhead, an on-demand marketing predictive campaign engine customized for the Salesforce.com portfolio of products. Next month, according ...

More than half of all consumers say a negative online experience leads to online and offline abandonment. With the click of a mouse, a customer who has invested time and effort researching your products and services online, and who may have purchased something from your site or store in the past, wi...

An Ottawa-based provider of CRM for small and medium-sized businesses, The Long Reach Corporation has a surprisingly far-flung customer base, with clients in the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan. That is likely due to the special niche it fills for SMBs, a corporate co...

StayinFront has shifted its CRM application to .Net architecture in what is the first major overhaul of its flagship product in two years. The new product, StayinFront CRM 10, migrated from a client-server model to a platform that allows it to integrate with other software applications more easily a...

Genius.com has released Genius Team -- a new edition of SalesGenius, the marketing and sales application it debuted last year. The new team application automates many of the tasks in SalesGenius and provides a venue for greater administrative control, according to Felicity Wohltman, vice president o...

Oracle has released its latest semiannual upgrade of its Siebel CRM On Demand product. Unlike previous releases that focused on smaller changes and tweaks, Release 14 incorporates substantial improvements to its architecture and integration capabilities. In fact, it is the product's most significant...

Determining the right combination of people, processes and technologies is critical to the effectiveness of the virtual call center -- a call center that functions in every respect as a single logical entity with agents that are physically distributed across multiple locations. An integral piece to ...

With its sex appeal, direct conduit to YouTube and ability to store videos and music -- advantages hardly conducive to productivity in a work environment -- it would not seem likely that many businesses would want to incorporate the iPhone into their operations. Then there is the not small matter o...

Last week, the train officially pulled into the station; we got a call from Tranquility Base -- choose your metaphor. Salesforce.com announced availability of Summer '07 which included final delivery of the long-awaited Apex programming language -- the last piece of the developer platform. From here...

Avaya is extending its mobile applications to give users of Nokia Eseries business devices the ability to switch back and forth between private WiFi and public cellular networks. The application enhances a company's productivity and cost savings, Steve Hardy, Avaya director of product marketing, tol...

Salesforce.com has introduced its Summer '07 release, dubbing it a "Platform as a Service" product because of the presence of the developer code Apex in the application. While Apex has been released before, this is the first time it has been live for customers in a production environment. The multip...

Epicor has released its first major overhaul of its CRM application since the company shifted its product line to the .NET platform. At that time, in 2002, Epicor introduced new CRM functionality that played upon the benefits of moving away from a client-server environment. This release focuses more...

NetSuite is the first of the Software as a Service vendors to introduce support for Apple's vaunted iPhone. Called "SuitePhone," it provides native support for Safari, the iPhone's browser, as well as NetSuite's own product line and its role-based dashboards. Using SuitePhone, users can remotely acc...

How good is the match between Software AG and its recent acquisition webMethods? Was is strictly a geographical sales force synergy? Or will webMethods become the de facto R&D arm of Software AG while the parent firm's legacy cash flow sustains the movement toward service-oriented architecture? ...

Interactive Intelligence has released its second-generation session initiation protocol Interaction Gateway, an appliance that enables connections between traditional T1 and E1 trunk lines and Voice over Internet Protocol networks. The new version includes support for global protocols, fax support ...