How to Plan & Execute Performance Testing for CRM on HANA Migration
“You might have read the news: SAP’s own CRM system now runs productively on the SAP HANA platform and the earlier blogs SAP Runs SAP CRM on HANA & How to Migrate a Productive CRM System ...
What’s Driving Marketing’s Renaissance?
Marketing is taking CRM by storm. While we've all been fixated on social media, many companies -- both vendors and end customers -- have been acting more broadly by acquiring and extending marketing...
Salesforce Cranks Up Chatter for Social Intelligence
Salesforce.com has upgraded Salesforce Chatter with a new feature that collects and aggregates unstructured data -- or perhaps better put, social intelligence -- onto one page for easy reference....
5 Things That Kill CRM ROI Dead
Back in the old days -- like around 2003 -- the rate of what was termed "CRM failure" was unacceptably high. You often heard it bandied about that 70 percent of implementations were failures. That...
Colosa Builds Better BPM Into SugarCRM
SugarCRM and Colosa are getting set to debut a new Sugar module based on a visual tool that lets users design business process workflows inside SugarCRM. They'll be able to control the way tasks...
Marketo Winds Up for Risky IPO
Marketing automation company Marketo filed paperwork with the SEC on Tuesday to launch an initial public offering valued at $75 million. The company has not yet proposed a stock price. It does...
How to Migrate a Productive CRM System to the SAP HANA™ Platform
Peter Boegler, IT Solution Architect, explains how SAP’s IT organization managed to migrate one of the world’s largest CRM systems to the SAP HANA platform in only 2.5 months in this blog.
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Race Against the Machine
Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee of the MIT Center for Digital Business and the Sloan School of Management have written an interesting book for our times -- our economic times -- with an appealing...
Finance Companies Bristle at Public Airing of Consumer Complaints
The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau announced last week that it has expanded the Consumer Complaint Database it launched last summer, increasing the number of complaints about credit card companies...
CallCopy Lets Managers See What Customers Are Saying
CallCopy recently unveiled cc: Discover 5.1, an upgrade to its flagship workforce optimization suite. Many of the changes incorporated in this version were made at the behest of customers who provided...
