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Features

Sales Analytics: Forecasting Success Through Improved Data Visibility

A few weeks ago I posted a link to a Sales Analytics Survey by Aberdeen Research. Today the analyst, Peter Ostrow, was kind enough... 

Business Intelligence for the Mid-Market Survey

Industry analyst firm Wise Analytics has launched an online survey on BI for the Mid-Market. There are no vendor sponsors for this... 

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Events

User Group Meeting Down Under

The next Sydney user group meeting will take place July 2nd. Date: Wednesday 2 July Time: 4:00pm to 6:00pm (followed by drinks and... 

Santa Clara User Group Meeting: June 17th

I just noticed the Santa Clara User Group will be having our friends from Lucid Era in to present as well as a great guy you should... 

Networking and CRM Essentials

June is host to two Salesforce.com Networking and CRM Essentials events including one in Calgary Alberta, Canada, and another in Mexico.... 

Upcoming CRM Success Tour Dates

Update: I had to remove the original links as they were not posting properly. As much as I love Wordpress it still throws a curve ball... 

Vancouver Salesforce.com User Group June Meeting

The Vancouver Salesforce.com user group is holding its next learning session Wednesday June 4th at 5:30 PM. For details, including... 

Salesforce.com integration webinar: CODA Financials

Hear from CODA Financials and salesforce.com about CODA 2go, the new on-demand accounting application, and how they plan to break SaaS... 

Salesforce.com News

Structure ‘08, found a good breakdown

This piece from Mycustomer.com editor Stuart Lauchlan deserves mention, even if it is a day or five old.  Stu appears to have been... 

SFDC’s newest evaluation

If you know anyone who’s in to tech research and can get ahold of Research and Market’s product evaluation for you, do... 

More data, accurate results, new offering from LucidEra

LucidEra is one of those Salesforce-participating companies out in the cloud that does something that I just irrationally enjoy, analytics. What... 

The Cloud: “Ecosystem” a good word?

I know it’s a few days old at this point but two guys over at InformationWeek have done what I believe is an awesome job with... 

Anything you can do, I can do better: More on MS Dynamics

Well, it looks like people can’t refer to Microsoft’s CRM offering without referring to Salesforce on their blogs and in... 

I find your lack of faith disturbing: Microsoft Dynamics

Sorry about the heading, I just couldn’t think of a more evil quote off the top of my head. So bad news for Salesforce.com today... 

SFBlogged

The endless open-source march

I can’t really say I’d ever throw my hat into the open-source arena of fandom.  There’s just something about a polished... 

Scobelizer interviews Marc Benioff, covers force.com

Seems I missed this one due to my vacation Click here to view a interesting video interview with Salesforce.com’s CEO.  Read More →

New white paper: 7 domains of a successful CRM roll-out

A new post on Successforce.com sprouted up yesterday detailing key lessons Salesforce.com’s professional services team has... 

Salesforce Ouroboros

Here’s a little example of quick team adaptation hinging entirely on Salesforce CRM. Apparently this blogger was visiting a small...