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Eric Harrington Does your CEO Work the Help Desk?

In any organization, there are two primary groups that talk with customers: Sales and Support.

Sales typically

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Added by Eric Harrington on July 28, 2010 at 12:27pm — No Comments

Shailesh Gogate IMPROVING USER EXPERIENCE OF FINANCIAL PORTALS

IS CUSTOMER STICKINESS YOUR CONCERN?
The business of money is indeed evolving through technological innovations, with consumers finding themselves flooded with umpteen options to manage their funds. From being an information hub (real time dope on the global stock market, market analysis, investment ideas), to knowledge sharing (online financial advisors, finance-related seminars, webinars and articles), to empowering users with a vast array of tradi

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Added by Shailesh Gogate on June 28, 2010 at 1:55am — No Comments

Shailesh Gogate MEANINGFUL USABILITY IN HEALTHCARE APPLICATIONS

Pervasive. Interoperable. Secure. Intuitive. Scalable. User-centric. Simple!

At a glance, one may remotely be able to connect these terms to the healthcare industry. But even in a melancholy economy, the dynamics of healthcare consumerism are simply hard to ignore. The healthcare industry is at the crossroads of an IT revolution that will dramatically change the way healthcare professionals operate and address critical areas of patient care, with a w

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Added by Shailesh Gogate on June 18, 2010 at 7:07am — 1 Comment

Chaitra Vedullapalli Smart Partnering: It is all about DIALOG, GIVING and PATIENCE

It is all about DIALOG, GIVING and PATIENCE

You can only do so much alone. Your network is your accelerator for growth. Smart partnerships is a key differentiator and very hard to replicate easily. Read more : http://chaitrav.com/2010/03/smart-partnering-it-is-all-about-dialog-giving-and-patience/

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Added by Chaitra Vedullapalli on March 9, 2010 at 2:12am — 1 Comment

Chaitra Vedullapalli 5 IT Spending Areas in 2010 by SMB’s

Just finished writing my blog on 5 IT spending areas in 2010 for SMB's. I hope this helps all of you.

Share your thoughts on my blog.

http://chaitrav.com/2010/02/5-it-spending-areas-in-2010-by-smb%e2%80%99s/

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Added by Chaitra Vedullapalli on February 8, 2010 at 1:00am — No Comments

Dr. Petri I. Salonen Gartner Produces Vital Enterprise Level Guide For Cloud Virgins

Interesting new data from Gartner Group in respec to cloud computing. Gartner Produces Vital Enterprise Level Guide For Cloud Virgins Continue

Added by Dr. Petri I. Salonen on December 21, 2009 at 5:57pm — No Comments

Chaitra Vedullapalli Windows 7 Webcast - Exclusive for IAMCP Partners - Register Now

This is a business webcast will specifically focus on: • The Windows 7 Value Proposition – How to best position Windows 7 with your customers • The Market Opportunity for Windows 7 • The Partner opportunity – Go-To-Market solutions for your customers • The Competitive advantage of Windows 7 • Live Q&A with Visser This is an incredible opportunity for YOU to take advantage of being an IAMCP Partner. Attend this free webcast, get your questions answered and stay ahead of competition! Learn m… Continue

Added by Chaitra Vedullapalli on October 23, 2009 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Dr. Petri I. Salonen Mea Clouda: SaaS Vendors Can Win Over Customers with Honesty: can onpremise applications provide 99,5% or better uptime?

I like this article that explains that all SaaS vendors have an opportunity to build trust with their clients by being open and transparent when an outage happens. No IT system is failsafe, and I would even argue that some onpremise solutions do not provide 99.5 or higher uptime. I have not seen one yet. Mea Clouda: SaaS Vendors Can Win… Continue

Added by Dr. Petri I. Salonen on October 14, 2009 at 1:54pm — No Comments

Dr. Petri I. Salonen Nigel Pendse Sharply Criticises Traditional BI Providers at the 2009 Palo Open: do you agree with him?

Nigel Pendse gave a keynote and gave his opinion about traditional BI vendors. I happened to collaborate with Nigel in the past, he knows his stuff and focuses on the BI field. Nigel Pendse Sharply Criticises Traditional BI Providers at the 2009 Palo Open Continue

Added by Dr. Petri I. Salonen on October 14, 2009 at 10:56am — No Comments

Dr. Petri I. Salonen Is Cloud Computing Secure? Prove It

This article is a good discussion of issues around cloud computing security and what private clouds can do for an organization. Compliance and other regulatory issues is something that organizations have to think about as well. Read on.... Continue

Added by Dr. Petri I. Salonen on October 13, 2009 at 7:52pm — No Comments

Dr. Petri I. Salonen Coders at Work: Recommended reading for people in software business

I have to say that I was very excited to run into a new book by Peter Seibel " Coders at work" that provides reflection of known developers and their thinking when developing software. Continue

Added by Dr. Petri I. Salonen on October 12, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Dr. Petri I. Salonen Announcing the topic of my new upcoming book from Talentum

It is time to reveal the name of my new upcoming book. We have agreed it to be ” Rohkeasti maailmalle – onnistu liike-elämässä ja ihmisenä”. If one translates it to English, it is close to following: “Bravely out into the wide world - become successful in business and as a person”. My first book “Onnistu suuressa maailmassa - opas globaaleille kilpakentille” (Become successful in the big world – guide to global competitive markets) came out to book stores in January 2008 and I feel that this new… Continue

Added by Dr. Petri I. Salonen on October 12, 2009 at 2:27pm — No Comments

Chaitra Vedullapalli Microsoft Partnering - Have u finished it - CSAT requirement for Gold Certified Partner deadline approaching

Partner CSAT requirement deadline is just around the corner for Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Have you finished yet? Read the article from Eric Ligman to complete this requirement asap : http://blogs.msdn.com/mssmallbiz/archive/2009/09/03/9890934.aspx Send me your questions if you have any. Continue

Added by Chaitra Vedullapalli on October 1, 2009 at 4:56pm — No Comments

Bob Brogan You Proposed a Corporate University: “Are You Nuts?”

Here is a quick story for you. A mid-market human resource executive schedules an agenda item for the next month’s senior management and board meeting. The proposal is to create a Corporate University to address meeting the company’s performance objectives. The initial reactions to this agenda item from the CEO, CFO and COO ranged from “are you nuts?”… “in today’s economic climate”…. ”expensive”….”limited appeal and utility”…. “no short-term benefits”….. to ”looks like it’s time to look for new… Continue

Added by Bob Brogan on September 29, 2009 at 3:31pm — 1 Comment

Dr. Petri I. Salonen PDC09 - The Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles Convention Center November 17-19, 2009

PDC09 is getting closer and there is lots of new stuff coming in to the PDC-site so if you have an interest in this, I would put this site as one of the ones you follow. Continue

Added by Dr. Petri I. Salonen on September 21, 2009 at 10:17am — No Comments

Dr. Petri I. Salonen US ISV Developer Evangelism Team : Best Practices for Your Software Available for Free

The ISV Developer Community provides free resources for Best Practices US ISV Developer Evangelism Team : Best Practices for Your Software Available for Free Continue

Added by Dr. Petri I. Salonen on September 10, 2009 at 2:49pm — No Comments

Dr. Petri I. Salonen Dirty vendor tricks | Applications - InfoWorld article of software business

Having been in the software industry for 20+ years, this article kind of made me laugh.. Is the software industry so desparate, and if it is.. are you one of these vendors...? Dirty vendor tricks | Applications - InfoWorld Continue

Added by Dr. Petri I. Salonen on September 10, 2009 at 2:44pm — No Comments

Dr. Petri I. Salonen 'Oslo': Microsoft's Modeling Strategy will be more clear at PDC09

"Oslo" codename for Microsoft's modeling strategy will be more clear at PDC09 in November. Creating software tools for the domain-specific modeling space is not easy, not even for large software companies. Microsoft PDC09 will be key to gain an understanding of how Oslo modeling platform looks like now and in the future. 'Oslo': Microsoft's Modelin… Continue

Added by Dr. Petri I. Salonen on September 9, 2009 at 9:55am — No Comments

Dr. Petri I. Salonen Four Steps to Organize Your Network for Powerful Pinging

I like the blog entry by Keith Ferrazzi (author of Never eat alone etc.) about how to nurture your social network network. Social networking is not rocket science, but you have to be very consistent in doing it! Continue

Added by Dr. Petri I. Salonen on September 9, 2009 at 9:51am — No Comments

Dr. Petri I. Salonen Convergence: Model-Based Software, Systems And Control Engineering

I love this presentation from Dr. Janos Sztipanovits from E. Bronson Ingram Distinguished Professor of Engineering and professor of Electrical Engineering. What is very interesting in this speech (held at OOPSLA 2008 in Nasville, TN) . His topic "Convergence: Model-Based Software, Systems and Control Engineering gives a good view t… Continue

Added by Dr. Petri I. Salonen on September 2, 2009 at 8:49am — No Comments

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