SuiteWorld reveals cloud computing ERP’s mainstream moment

NetSuite bloomed this week, in part because of a very well produced user meeting, SuiteWorld, held in San Jose but also because there can no longer be any doubt that the market for ERP technology is turning to the Cloud.

What was once …

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New compensation system for non sales types manages MBOs and can improve individual and company performance

NetSuite was not the only company having a party in greater San Francisco last week.  DocuSign held an event as did Xactly and though I couldn’t get to DocuSign I did pay a visit …

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This is important.  According to a story in the New York Times today, the Chinese Army is back in the business of hacking into American computer systems to steal intellectual property and government security secrets.  After a three month lull that coincided with a tongue lashing by the Obama administration …

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There are two questions that emerging companies in the CRM space field when they face the analysts — when are you going public and why don’t you build out a full CRM capability?

The first question is easily and deftly handled by most executives and it must be. An IPO …

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Just caught this….

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In “IT’s Ethical Dilemma” I wrote about the challenge of having a new product and selling the old one.  If the new product offers benefits of better, faster, and cheaper — and what new product doesn’t? — then how is it ethical to sell the older, less performant, and probably

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Have you seen this?  I’ve noticed lately that Twitter is suggesting I follow people who I thought I had been following for years.  Seems the links break but why?  It also seems like the incidence of broken links is rising.  Something like this makes it difficult to treat social media, …

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ZDNet headlined that the US Senate passed the legislation to require Internet commerce companies to collect state sales taxes and I think it’s about time.  The line against the bill has more to do with political doctrine than with sound financial management.

Who likes taxes?  I don’t.  But it doesn’t …

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