A couple of months ago SAP bought SuccessFactors and a week or two later Salesforce bought Rypple. We blogged about SuccessFactors here and we mentioned that we had discontinued it in favour of Rypple. We like Rypple, and we’ve implemented it’s more modern look-and-feel with some relief. With SuccessFactors we did …Read More
Seven great reasons to invest in a Virtual PABX solution!
July 8th 2011 3.40pm At 10 minutes into my 28 minute wait to make a support call to Telstra concerning my residential phone line – I figured I’d write a blog post. Fortunately our business uses an IP-based Virtual PABX system from a supplier called SpeakEzy. Here’s an admission before I start …Read More
Dylan versus Meatloaf: $35 million Wufoo compared to $2.5 billion SuccessFactors?
Statues made of matchsticks, crumble into one another. (Bob Dylan: Love Minus Zero/No Limit) As I started to write this a week or so ago – I was listening to the radio. It was Bob Dylan’s 70th birthday. He’s just left Sydney, a visit marked by his usual joyful interplay …Read More
Salesforce is still the answer, so don’t go looking for the next big thing
I’m pretty sure the term Early-Adopter was first popularised by Geoffrey Moore’s great book Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers. So – how do you qualify for the ”Early Adopter“club? It’s all somewhat relative. Nearly 30 years ago, in October 1981, I bought a ticket to …Read More
Hey You – Get off of our Cloud!!
Hey You – Get off of our Cloud!! – thoughts on changing cloud solutions as the business grows Ah yes…memories. Passed my driving test in 1979, jumped into my Dad’s beaten up Austin Allegro for my first solo drive. Cranked up the tinny AM radio and on came The Rolling …Read More
The Eejit’s Guide to Heroku
My daughters gave chase, but it was futile. I was gone, they weren’t going to catch me. I galloped up and down the three floors of our terrace house, then made aeroplane shapes as I burst shirtless through the back door onto Bank Lane and up Union St. I had …Read More