SaaS: Salesforce Circle of Success

In an effort to expand outside the CRM space, Salesforce.com is beginning to push vertical applications.  In February, just a few weeks after introducing a generic platform for on-demand solutions called Apex, Salesforce announced plans for the Salesforce Wealth Management Edition.

The Wealth Management Edition (WME) vertical is the first of a group of vertical applications [...]

SaaS: Can SMBs be Convinced?

SaaS is scaring away SMB customers.  On the one hand, SMBs are intrigued with the business proposition offered by on-demand solutions provided as a service, but when asked directly about SaaS, there is a feeling of suspicion and hesitancy.  Much of the fear people have is just the term SaaS. These are the results of [...]

Data Deluge: 25% of Enterprise Data is Inaccurate

Not only are company data archives overflowing, the data is dirty.  Gartner says that 25 percent of Fortune 1000 company critical data collected over the next two years will be inaccurate, incomplete or duplicated.  Gartner thinks that three quarters of large enterprises are experiencing dirty data problems and that it won’t be at least until [...]