Thought Leaders In Sales 2.0: Dave Fitzgerald, EVP Of Sales And Marketing, Brainshark (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Sudhindra Chada A New Series on Sales 2.0 This is the first interview in a new series on sales 2.0, a topic that I have addressed regularly over the past several years. With the growth of SaaS and the rise of companies such as Salesforce.com and appssavvy, it’s time

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Donald Ferguson, CTO of CA Technologies (Part 6)

DF: Continuing with that thought, if we go buy an app from a packaged app vendor, we try and buy so that it runs on the one of the internal platforms that we use on our internal IT. If it’s a product, we have to make sure it works across platforms, so when we use

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Large Enterprises: To Be Or Not To Be In The Clouds?

By guest author Shaloo Shalini and Saurabh Mallik As a niche technology chaser, I have been working closely with several cloud-based technologies in the past three years. It amazes me to see the ease and agility with which startups and small and medium enterprises deal with the question of adopting cloud-based technologies. Contrast this with the

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The 1M1M Deal Radar 2010: Plimus ,Fremont, California

Deal Radar continues its comprehensive coverage of e-commerce solutions with Plimus, a hosted e-business platform that clients use to market, sell, and distribute digital goods online. It comprises a hosted e-commerce application, which the company believes is particularly suited to enabling independent companies to quickly get their products and services available for purchase online across

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Can You Do It All? BlackLine CEO Therese Tucker (Part 1)

Therese Tucker is the CEO and founder of BlackLine Systems, an account reconciliation and financial close software provider. Prior to that she served as CTO at SunGard Treasury Systems. Therese was comfortably retired from SunGard – and had two school-age children at home – when she decided to merge her two talents, technology and finance,

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Catching Up On Readings: A Nation Of (Virtual) Shopkeepers

In describing England as “a nation of shopkeepers,” Napoleon meant to highlight that nation’s unpreparedness for war against France. But England’s larger tax base and ability to supply iron, wood, and cloth more efficiently than France proved to be to Napoleon’s disadvantage. Fast forward to the twenty-first century, and we see that the joining of

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Seed Capital From The Government: SBA’s Sean Greene (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Sramana: Let me ask you a specific question along those lines as a follow-up about education. Education is an area where we’re seeing a lot of interest among entrepreneurs. It’s clear that education is a big problem that needs to be solved by a

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Donald Ferguson, CTO of CA Technologies (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest authors Shaloo Shalini and Bhavana Sharma SM: That must be having a huge impact on the IT organization as well, right? You don’t need all these different capabilities. I guess you can dramatically reduce the size of the IT organization with that decision alone.