Feb 7 2011

Focus.com “Experts” Discussion: Answers To “Why Do Companies Leave Salesforce.com?”

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 This week one of the highlighted questions posed in the CRM community of Focus.com is “Has anyone dropped SalesForce.com and migrated to another CRM platform?  And if so, to who and why?” Continue reading


Aug 17 2010

Bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica… Facts.

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One of the, shall we say, more “creatively aggresive” players in the CRM market has taken aim at Sage’s product offerings for some time now (why not go after the leader, right?), filling the ether with a great deal of mis-information and downright propaganda…  Here are Sage Software’s responses to some of those tall tales: Continue reading


Oct 1 2009

Building a Powerful SMB Collaboration Platform Using (Almost) Free Microsoft Tools

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Continuing with my theme of ‘free’ (or close enough) from my last post, now I continue looking at a couple of nifty tools that Microsoft offers that we think can offer a real value for many of our small business clients.

While we don’t typically think of Microsoft and ‘free’ in the same sentence, due to competitive pressures from Google Apps, Zoho, and open source software, the Windows giant is working hard to remain relevant in a ‘cloud’ based world.

Following is an overview of two Microsoft products that on their own are rather revolutionary, but combined should result in some powerful results for those who are ready to think outside their daily box. Continue reading


Sep 20 2009

Access Your Files from Anywhere – Free!

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Microsoft has been working on a new ‘cloud’ service called Live Mesh.  Live Mesh provides a simple way for you to remotely access you computer(s) and important files from anywhere you have internet access.  And better yet, it is free. Continue reading