1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: iOffice Corp, Houston, Texas

There will be a need for companies that provide facility management services as long as people need to go to work. Companies like the Houston, Texas–based iOffice Corp are valuable not only because organizations have to provide comfortable, functional workplaces for their employees, but because iOffice in particular makes it easy and affordable for them to do so. >>>

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 to customer support, the social CRM trend is becoming an avalanche, and for some industries the implications bear particularly serious consequences.

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dan Raju, CIO Of TradeKing (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Well, if you are interested, you are much very welcome to do that with us as well. We have an entrepreneur community, and it is full of entrepreneurs who do things like these. >>>

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dan Raju, CIO Of TradeKing (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Absolutely! So, my follow-on question as I was listening to you as you talked about opening up your API is, What kinds of tools would you like to see third-party developers offer? Do entrepreneurs develop on your platform to provide value? If you were an entrepreneur and if you were to use TradeKing’s API to bring a product to market, where would you look? >>>

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dan Raju, CIO Of TradeKing (Part 5)

Dan Raju: So, as I was saying, You have an extremely big change in the way customers are consuming services and that change began with the influx of mobility technologies to the site, which has completely disrupted the space. The second thing has to do with customers themselves, and they are requesting an entirely different way of interacting with online financial services in particular and in retail in general. Customers are looking for more, and they need specific components of a company’s services. In most cases, the customer does not really care about all the things my site provides. >>>

What’s Next For Salesforce.com?

SaaS customer relationship management (CRM) vendors Salesforce.com and RightNow recently reported second quarter results that beat estimates. Salesforce.com has been on an acquisition spree, acquiring eight companies over the year. What will be its next move? Let’s take a closer look. >>>

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dan Raju, CIO Of TradeKing (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: All right, so, let’s move to your second point.

Dan Raju: Our second point of value is very simple, as it is for everyone else, and that point is infrastructure as a service. Infrastructure as a service has been great for us as a company that was very small and has grown tremendously big in the past five years. >>>

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Dan Raju, CIO Of TradeKing (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Rajdeep Ramsay

Sramana Mitra: Before we talk about budgeting capabilities and such, I think it would help readers to understand better if you gave a use case of a particular instance?

Dan Raju: Absolutely! So, for example, most of us in technology do two things. We say, I am going to spend X amount of dollars today, and based upon these criteria, this is what my expense is going to be over the next three to five years depending on how budgeting is done in a particular company. So there are two factors to this, right? There is saying, I am spending this amount of capital, and then there are what my operational expenses for the next couple of years are going to be. >>>