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10 Web Analytics Resources Focusing in Particular on Segmentation in Google Analytics

We Are Cloud — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:30:42 +0100

We've put together a list of resources about segmentation in web analytics - with a particular focus on Google Analytics.

Find the list here!

The Changing Face Of IT: Five Trends To Watch

Floyd Tucker — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:07:42 +0100

At the TechRepublic Live 2010 event earlier this month, I gave a presentation called “The Changing Face of IT” in which I outlined five key trends that are changing the way IT is delivered, administered, and staffed. Here’s a summary of that presentation.

1. The consumerization of IT

We have been discussing the consumerization of IT on TechRepublic since 2007 when The Wall Street Journal published tips to help business professionals Read More...

Create and manage a media list online

Matt Mansfield — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:57:40 +0100

A new blog post: http://ow.ly/2it2J

Survey: SAP Confident of SaaS and Cloud Uptake

DS Community Team — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:59:10 +0100

Nearly two-thirds of SAP customers will use the firm's software-as-a-service (SaaS) products in the future, according to a survey by the UK & Ireland SAP User Group.

Three-quarters of respondents also indicated that SAP has been too slow in bringing its SaaS suite to market.

Just 17 per cent of respondents are using SaaS/cloud-based tools to run critical business applications, suggesting that SAP has a long way to go to win over users.

However, the firm can be confRead More...

Salesforce.com exec: People expecting more from the cloud

Floyd Tucker — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:54:01 +0100

A Salesforce.com executive has stated that cloud computing users are expecting more and more from the applications they employ.

Parker Harris, executive vice president of Salesforce.com, said that one decade ago, the goal was to come up with business services that had the same simple level of usability as Amazon, reports PC Mag.

He said expectations have shifted over the course of time, with users wanting features such as connections to other services and social medRead More...

What is Business Intelligence? and much more

We Are Cloud — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:26:12 +0100

Just though I would do a little simple post with some short descriptions to help people understand why and how they might use our product, Bime.

What is BI?

Business Intelligence is the use of data to better inform decision makers within Read More...

30 Business Performance Indicators You Can (and should) Measure

We Are Cloud — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0100

It's all good and well using a BI solution to measure your business performance, but before you start blindly measuring anything and everything, what are some of the specific KPIs or metrics that you could focus on? Find out here!

SuccessFactors Revenue Close To $200M

Brent Wilson — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:31:40 +0100

While Salesforce.com's the unquestioned SaaS revenue leader, Taleo, RightNow, NetSuite and SuccessFactors are all closing in on annual run rates of $200 million. With SuccessFactors this week reporting 27% quarterly revenue growth to $46.8 million, these and other high-growth SaaS vendors have proven they've got industrial-strength enterprise chops.

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Email M – SaaS Email marketing with Free Trial

Joel Christ — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:47:11 +0100

Email marketing is an effective way to grow your business online and it shows successful path to get more clients to your business. In this competitive online business world everyone need to promote their business in some way. There are plenty of promotional methods available to expose your business online. But all those ways are not that much affordable to get into.

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Novell Scores Cloud Coup in China

Floyd Tucker — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:56:56 +0100

Novell and Tencent, reportedly China's biggest Internet service portal, have set up a research lab in Shenzhen, China, to jointly develop an Internet Data Center (IDC) cloud computing platform.

Tencent, which is supposed to have 480 million active users and 568.6 million IM accounts, is going to use SUSE Linux and PlateSpin Orchestrate as its auto-deployment system.

It's also suppose to use Novell's intelligent workload management solutions, including PlateSpin Workload ManagRead More...

SaaS Project Management Provider Daptiv is Purchased By Parallax Capital Partners

DS Community Team — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:15:42 +0100

Laguna Hills-based Parallax Capital Partners, an investment group which acquires and operates software companies, said today that it has acquired Seattle-based Daptiv, a provider of online software-as-a-service for project and portfolio management. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Parallax said that Daptiv operates a profitable business with recurring Read More...

Free Guide to My 6-Step Online Software Evaluation Process

Matt Mansfield — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:47:15 +0100

Download your guide to my "6-Step Online Software Evaluation Process": http://bit.ly/bQrFs4

Cloud Security: Perception Is Reality

Roy Hovey — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:12:05 +0100

Is the cloud insecure? Maybe. But that's not the first question IT should ask.

I believe if you set it up correctly, the cloud can be as secure as anything else," says the CTO of a financial services startup. "But we don't want to have to waste time communicating to potential customers that the public cloud is secure. It's a conversation you don't want to have."

As a result, this CTO's company, which had deployed its applications on top of Amazon's Web service offering, iRead More...

Compensating Your SaaS Sales Team

Floyd Tucker — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:00:06 +0100

Interesting post found on Linkedin awhile back - I’m curious as to how people feel about it, and if anyone has used any other compensation mechanisms that either worked or didn’t, so please chime in!

On many occasions, I’ve heard people discuss the issues regarding compensation strategy for a SaaS sales team. The one thing I rarely hear, however, is either how folks are dealing with it in the real world or proposals/frameworks that attempt to solve many of the saRead More...

Google's Apps for Government Certified Under Federal Information Security Management Act

Brent Wilson — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:19:35 +0100

Cloud computing will save the U.S. government quite a bit of money and improve its efficiency, no doubt, but until government officials are convinced of its security, the migration to this new computing paradigm is likely to be a slow one. As the delayed deployment of the Los Angeles police department’s new Google (GOOG) email system illustrates, the threat of unkRead More...

Visualization to celebrate Facebook's 500 million users

We Are Cloud — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:00:42 +0100

Following the social network's 500 million user milestone which they hit last week, we've created a dashboard showing various relationships between countries present on Facebook, the number of users and the percentage of the population that hold an account.

The Read More...

Top 25 Features of AJ Help Desk – Hosted Help Desk Solution (SaaS)

Joel Christ — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:59:59 +0100

Everyone knows the importance of customer support. Now with the use of advanced tool, you can improve the operation efficiency of your support desk. AJ Help Desk is one of the best script to make effective customer support for all kind of business. AJ Help Desk Script now available in SaaS concept too. you can get effective SaaS services from AJ Help Desk-hosted help desk solutions. Here I just gonna mentions some important features of AJ Help DeskRead More...

AudioBox.fm Hits iPhone, Lets You Stream Your Music Collection From The Cloud

Floyd Tucker — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:48:17 +0100

AudioBox.fm, the cloud-based music service that lets users upload their music collection and access it anywhere, has added the iPhone/iPod touch to its list of supported devices through a native application.

Previously, iPhone users could only access AudioBox via Mobile Safari, a bit of a kludge since the QuickTime Player plugin effectively tRead More...

Rackspace's Bold Move To Open The Cloud

Floyd Tucker — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:36:41 +0100

Rackspace's OpenStack could signal a new race to open up cloud computing technology

Rackspace's recent OpenStack announcement is a strong, if familiar, open source play. Given Rackspace's place in the market, open-sourcing its cloud code provides strong differentiation from Amazon, which has become the de facto standard for storage and compute services in the cloud.

And with NASA contributing the code that runs its own Nebula cloud platform, OpenStack has the potential to cRead More...

SaaS Revenue to Grow Five Times Faster Than Traditional Packaged Software

DS Community Team — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:27:26 +0100

A recent International Data Corporation (IDC) study shows that the Software as a Service (SaaS) market had worldwide revenues of $13.1 billion in 2009. IDC forecasts the market to reach $40.5 billion by 2014, representing a compound annual growth rate of 25.3%. By 2012, IDC expects that less than 15% of net-new software firms coming to market will ship a packaged product (on CD). By 2014, about 34% of all new business software purchases will be consumRead More...