Dan Farber has an excellent series called Super Techies. He most recently interviewed Marc Benioff and here are some VERY interesting tidbits that he uncovered.
Started a company in high school called Liberty Software making games for the TRS 80, Apple II and the Commodore 64
He started as an intern at Apple programming applications in assemby
Started [...]
This is the second part to the tutorial I presented last week about Automatically filling in the Account Name when entering the Opportunity Name. This tutorial will go into a little detail about the structure of a Salesforce URL and I’ll explain the code that we used last time.
Waste Management Inc. (WM) is suing SAP after spending more than $100 million on a failed ERP implementation. In 2005, SAP agreed to implement a mySAP solution for container management and waste logistics. SAP’s Safe Passage Program was also designed to help transition customers off of old end-of-life applications (like Siebel and JD Edwards). What’s [...]
As we know, the traditional on premise software giants like Microsoft, Oracle, SAP are now stepping up with hosted versions of their application. This allows customers to choose a flavour that they prefer. For example, let’s look at Microsoft Dynamics CRM. If a customer prefers to kick it old school they can buy [...]
As a best practice, Saleseforce.com recommends that you prefix your opportunity names with the corresponding account name. Let’s say you have a sales opportunity for 50 widgets under the ABC Company account. The opportunity should be named:
“ABC Company - 50 Widgets”
This just makes it easier when you see an opportunity in a report or the [...]
To add to fuel to an ongoing discussion of whether SaaS will replace IT, here’s some more food for thought.
In this article published by the Washington Post, Forrestor Research interviewed 1000 IT Decision Makers and here’s what they found.
16% of respondents say they have already deployed SaaS or are currently piloting such an [...]
This is another entry to our ongoing series of SaaS company profiles. To view more profiles click on The Players.
Zoho is an online productivity suite owned by AdventNet in India. Founded in 1996, AdventNet built a solid business selling network management tools to the telecomm industry. In 2003, the dot com bust left many [...]
