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Fri, Nov 6, 2009 12:03 EST

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Posted by: Thomas Wailgum in News Topic: ApplicationsBlog: Enterprise Software Unplugged
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I know what you're thinking: Puh-lease, Tom. iPhones are very cool, and it's great for me, personally, and we do let some of our employees get their corporate e-mail over their iPhone. But giving
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Posted by: Bill Wood in Best Practices Topic: IT Organization Management
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Retool, retool quickly! Most companies want to use CRM applications as a way to “supercharge” their sales forces. They want to gain some advantage with customer retention and
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Posted by: Thomas Wailgum in News Topic: ApplicationsBlog: Enterprise Software Unplugged
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As a buyer of enterprise software, what do you really want from your vendor's leadership? I've asked and explored this question before, in various ways and formats during the years at CIO. After
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Posted by: Thomas Wailgum in News Topic: ApplicationsBlog: Enterprise Software Unplugged
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For many enterprise software buyers, a nagging feeling that the deck has always been stacked in favor of the vendors selling the software became all the more noticeable last fall. Market crashes tend
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Posted by: Thomas Wailgum in News Topic: ApplicationsBlog: Enterprise Software Unplugged
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It's funny what a global economic recession will do to seemingly-invincible and well-heeled software vendors. (Not funny "hah hah," mind you. But funny "ohhhh" or "wow, look
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Posted by: Thomas Wailgum in News Topic: ApplicationsBlog: Enterprise Software Unplugged
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Most publicly-traded companies' earnings calls can be pretty boring affairs: Optimistic CEOs and by-the-numbers CFOs offering up bland responses to analysts questions, all in an effort to say nothing
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Posted by: Thomas Wailgum in News Topic: ApplicationsBlog: Enterprise Software Unplugged
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The blog world and Twittersphere lit up over this past weekend with the news* that Siemens, the German electronics and engineering giant and long (repeat: LONG)-time customer of SAP, was ditching
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