Archive for the ‘Enterprise IT’ Category

Using the Cloud Scheduler in Salesforce.com for Easy Meeting Coordination

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

Salesforce.com has come out with a great tool that will help make scheduling meetings with your customers and co-workers a breeze. This tools can help with CRM user adoption of your sales force automation system or customer service automation system. (more…)

The Salesforce.com Lead to Opportunity Sales Process

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

Online CRM programs, like Salesforce.com, provide for the ability to manage your sales process from the lead stage through to a closed sale that is won (or one that is lost). This is an overview of this lead-to-sales process for Salesforce automation. I don’t claim this is the best way for all companies to work, though it works well for many companies. This example of work flow automation I provide as only one way of how to use lead tracking software. (more…)

Benefits of Salesforce Content and Delivery

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

A few weeks ago I provided a high level look at Salesforce Content. Salesforce recently added Salesforce Content and Content Delivery to all editions of Salesforce.

Now let’s dig deeper into what make Content and Content Delivery so useful. (more…)

Salesforce for Twitter

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

We’re excited about Salesforce for Twitter. We first saw it at Dreamforce a few months ago and recently spent some time using the product.

The product has a lot of potential for helping companies better understand their Twitter community and use Twitter to improve customer service while reducing customer service costs. (more…)

2010 Technology Trends

Friday, January 1st, 2010
  1. More mobile applications – the iPhone started a revolution which is just getting going even though it has already changed the world. And finally it looks like other companies may have figured out how to build a smart phone people actually like to use. (more…)

No More Mediocre IT

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

Mediocrity is the norm in IT. Stuff breaks or stops working, users call the help desk, and then it gets fixed. Or it never really works right to start with but we get used to it.

Consider how confusing and problem-prone Microsoft Outlook is, while at the same time its the standard for a corporate email client. (more…)

Report from Dreamforce (Salesforce.com Conference)

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

Along with 18,000 others….I just came back from Salesforce’s annual love fest which they call Dreamforce.

The highlights of the conference were (more…)

Why You Don’t Want to Backup Your Own Data

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

From InfoWorld

Advantages of Cloud Computing

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Just as the internet changed the world, cloud computing will too. Cloud computing is a paradigm shift for the way Information Technology is delivered to businesses that allows businesses to decrease their IT costs while they improve productivity and efficiency. (more…)

The 11 Categories of Cloud Computing

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Breaking cloud computing into categories makes it easier to understand how you can use it in your business and less confusing. (more…)