In the past, the measurement of sales performance was tied primarily to the revenues generated by sales orders. It was simple to calculate total sales from the internal financial systems and compensation was often based upon commissions. 
Over the last several years, the sales environment and markets have changed dramatically. There has been increased complexity in the sales channels, customer requirements and the sales roles. Salespeople are being asked to sell multiple products and services to customers who have grown larger either through acquisition or consolidation of divisions and represent a bigger proportion of the total sales for them and the company.
Aria Systems, Inc., the only provider of enterprise class Billing and Customer Management Software as a Service (SaaS), announces the opening of its new office in San Mateo, CA. The expansion is due to growing demand for Aria’s services and represents the latest in a series of milestones in 2009. Despite the economic downturn, Aria has grown and thrived in 2009. Aria consistently wins against on premise and on-demand competitors and is being selected as more companies expand and additional industries consider using Billing in the Cloud.
MyBrainshark supports PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and PDF documents, as well as most popular video and image formats. These documents can be up to 100MB in size. Once you have uploaded a document, you can either add audio tracks by uploading additional MP3 files or you can call Brainshark and record the presentation over the phone.
- Microsoft Office Web Apps offers many of the same applications as Microsoft Office 2007, including PowerPoint, Word and Excel, but does not include OneNote, Access and Outlook.
- Web Apps is based off of Microsoft's free cloud-based storage offering, Windows Live SkyDrive.
- Businesses will be able to offer Web Apps through their SharePoint servers or through a Microsoft Office Subscription Service.
- The platform compete directly with Google Apps, document, spreadsheet and presentation solution.
Service-now.com, a provider of IT service automation has announced that Tulare County, California has successfully reorganized disparate IT organizations, ITSM processes and tools in a bid to help conserve public funds and improve IT service delivery to county employees and residents.
World renown printer giant, Fuji Xerox, has deployed Salesforce.com CRM to assist its staff and partners with better customer engagement.
There have been a lot of these types of articles circling around the web on various blogs etc., this article is informative and eye opening, it left me thinking.....
Astoria Software, provider of an Enterprise solution for SaaS/On-Demand XML Component Content Management, has announced the September 2009 release of Astoria On-Demand.
SaaS-Based 15desks Serves as a Lifetime Academic Hub, Connecting the Learning, Teaching, Creating - and Becoming - People Do Throughout Their Lives