There has been a lot of buzz about Apple's latest brainchild, the iCloud. The purpose of the iCloud is to bring your information together across all Apple devices. Download a song on your iPod and it is automatically synched with your Mac, iPa

I can't help but take notice of the recent string of cloud failures we've been hearing about this year. Blogger went down for about 20 hours last month and Microsoft's BPOS hosted bundle also reported a significant amount of downtime. Perhaps

Salesforce.com is the recognized 800-pound gorilla in cloud CRM software. However, while they may own "CRM" on the stock exchange, they do not own the market. Salesforce's tool is fairly intuitive with deep Sales Force Automation (SFA) functio

Marketing automation software is still considered a relative newcomer in the enterprise software space. However, there are new entrants popping up regularly, leading to a lot of activity and buzz in the market. With the growth in this space, t

In the world of enterprise software, we just love three-letter acronyms. The latest one of note is RPM or Revenue Performance Management. RPM refers to a strategy that goes beyond automating marketing campaigns to managing visibility into reve