Posts Tagged with ‘CRM’

Once upon a time, in a career far, far away, I worked in marketing communications for a Fortune 500 company. CRM software, such as it was then, consisted mainly of managing your business cards and taking some notes, so it’s an industry I’ve stayed interested in as it’s grown and evolved.
The host of the Blogtropol.us Lounge at Web 2.0 Expo was The Conversation Group, and I got to meet their Director, Integrated Media Campaigns, Denise Vardakas, who filled me on [...]

Update: NetSuite goes live on the NYSE today (Thurs Dec 20) with a raised price of $26 per share.
An IPO’s a-comin’! And the technological debutante having its public market premiere is none other than NetSuite.
Yes, the maker of software-by-subscription for a range of needs, including accounting, CRM (customer relationship management), and e-commerce, NetSuite is celebrating almost 10 years in business by tossing some stocks out to investors the world over – Dutch auction style. The New York Times [...]

There is a new online application suite being released that offers a complete solution for the small to medium business. It's called LongJump, and it is being brought to you by the folks behind Relationals. LongJump contacted Profy and set up an interview with LongJump CEO and founder Pankaj Malviya. I will admit, I was expecting the usual dry interview and run of the mill Web 2.0 application, but I was pleasantly surprised.
LongJump offers a wide array of web applications [...]

Sometimes I get irritated by the enormous number of Web 2.0 websites that are only intended for entertainment. While for many-many of us Internet is actually about business and business tools are sometimes under-estimated. And I have just been informed of a really interesting enterprise solution that is definitely a good example of how Web 2.0 can serve corporate customers.
Relenta is a customer relationship management (CRM) tool that is targeted at small- and medium-sized businesses. It is a completely [...]

As we saw yesterday, a “free plus ad supported” model makes most sense for consumer oriented activities; where the presence of a “non-free” offering means that most first time viewers will choose to stay away or opt for other free offerings instead. For businesses, however, the ad-supported approach may not make sense; a subscription style offering may be far better. Following the success of Salesforce.com and other web based services, a number of Web 2.0 businesses are exploring the subscription [...]