Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Marty Beard, CEO of LiveOps (Part 1)

We’ve featured LiveOps on the blog before, when I interviewed then CEO Maynard Webb for my Entrepreneur Journeys series. Now, the company has a new CEO, Marty Beard, and has gone through many other interesting changes over the years. Sramana Mitra: Hi, Marty. We are speaking with LiveOps for a second time. I spoke with

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Social CRM and Crowd Sourcing

There are many trends hitting large enterprises at the moment right in their bellies. Within the broad sphere of cloud computing, with the adoption of the social Web, one of these trends is crowd sourcing. The business function that is most acutely impacted by this trend is CRM. All the way from marketing to sales

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: Acumatica, Bethesda, Maryland

According to CIO.com, enterprise resource planning software (ERP) is designed to integrate the functions of a company’s various departments into a single unified software program running off of one database to facilitate the sharing of information. Such integration cuts down on errors and saves time, particularly in regards to patients’ medical histories. Since the advent

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Nati Shalom, CTO Of GigaSpaces (Part 1)

This is the first part of the interview with Nati Shalom, CTO and founder of GigaSpaces, where he and Sramana discuss role of Microsoft, improvisations in the sales cycles, standards, analytics and new market and opportunities for entrepreneurs in the cloud. This part explores the general adoption of cloud computing from Nati’s point of view.