Salesforce is announcing in London this morning that Chatter (more here) is available as mobile applications… kind of. In true Marc Benioff fashion, salesforce is pre-announcing a host of mobile apps that will launch between now and early 2011 for iPhone/iPad, BlackBerry and Android devices. Specifically salesforce is advising that:
Following on from Rowan Simpson’s post, and continuing on from some press I’ve been getting since the Christchurch earthquake, I was interviewed on Nine to Noon on National Radio this morning. Kathryn Ryan wanted to talk o someone on the ground about the way things are shaking down (pun intended)
My previous earthquake post garnered a fair amount of feedback, some supportive some not so much. That’s all good – discussion and robust debate is always good. I’ve reflected on it a bit and have to admit I was perhaps looking at the issues through my own context, and ignoring
For those who didn’t realize, I live in Canterbury, a region of New Zealand that last weekend suffered a fairly major earthquake. I am a shareholder in a company that owns a fairly large commercial building, and part own a number of businesses that are tenants of that building –
News today that Saasu (more on them here), the online accounting software vendor, and Acclipse, the accounting practice management software vendor, have formed a deep partnership to market an end to end system that allows accountants and businesses to work off the same data. This follows on from MYOB’s moves
Another in my recurring theme of PR disasters. Over on Twitter a strategist for BBH sent me a request to DM me. I responded saying that my email address is everywhere online and she just needed to find that and email me. After telling me she couldn’t find my address
SaaS applications give the ability to build very specific vertical applications that tie together several different functional areas to really meet the needs of a particular class of business. Intacct today announced an example of this “long tail” approach in action.
Normally I’m not overly interested in the press releases that come from vendors regularly boasting about a customer they’ve stolen from their competitors, however one I received today is kind of interesting. I’ve written before about both NetSuite and FinancialForce in the past. Briefly NetSuite is the big-boy in mid
I received notification today that there is a planned outage for Xero soon that will see them roll out of some changes to allow for an accountant’s ledger. The changes that the cloud will bring to accounting are a real interest area for me so I spent some time talking
Later this month VMware will host its annual conference, VMWorld. Will we see VMware make a strong move to open source as one commentator predicts? Bear in mind that VMware faces some existing threats from open source products and need to make a bold statement
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