By: David Johnston, President, Surgesoft

The concept of Sales 2.0 being the future of selling is fraught with a number of unresolved issues and tenets that while not nullifying its influence, certainly add caveats to the claim. To quote Selling Power magazine, Sales 2.0 will bring "productivity-enhancing technologies that transform selling from an art to a science". In no way do I deny the positive impact that customer-focused technologies will have on the selling process, I do believe that their adoption and ability to influence buying decisions will take time and require structural changes in the relationships between buyers and sellers.

Pacific Timesheet has announced that it has significantly enhanced its support for California labor rules such as meal penalty rules and split shift premium rules.

InteQ announced that InfraDesk, the company's software-as-a-service ITIL service desk solution has been shortlisted by The Know List Awards for 'Best Value - ROI' Award. To qualify for this award, the company was required to articulate how InfraDesk provided value specifically as it related to the overall return on investment (ROI) to the business.

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From my post on Pixily.com's blog: http://blog.pixily.com/blog/2010/01/08/top-free-and-low-priced-sales-and-marketing-saas-tools-for-small-businesses/

TAKE Supply Chain, a developer of supply chain management software, announced today that it has rolle dout a new, software-as-a-service version of its products called OneSCM. The firm said that the new, multi-tenant software platform is targeted at manufacturers and distributors, providing such functions as purchase order and online supplier management, tracking of part numbers, shipments, and bar label printing. The firm said the software is its first, multi-tenant software-as-a-service offering, whichi t will be enhancing over the next several quarters. The firm previously delivered its software as traditional, enterprise software. Pricing on the new offering was not disclosed. TAKE Supply Chain was formerly known as ClearOrbit.

Cyberwatch Security Communication leader in the System and Software Integration for IP Video and Physical Security Systems introduces Managed High Definition Video Security Services for Physical Access Control Applications. The original developer of Cyberwatch managed software service solution Hamid Marshall from Cyberwatch implemented a solution based on the industry standard Digital Video Recorder systems at the commencement of this service in 2007. Rapid ascend of Mega Pixel cameras provided an opportunity to expand on those concepts and provide remote and managed services for the Mega Pixel camera systems. In this framework edge recorders were deployed at the sites of the camera installations and archived video files are transferred to the cloud storage with fast file transfer protocol in scheduled time slots in order to optimized the bandwidth allocation of the networks.

KSS Inc. today introduced RackPrice SaaS, a hosted version of the company’s fuel price management software for fuel wholesalers.