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SAP to Offer On-Demand CRM
After months of hinting, SAP AG will announce Feb. 2 its long-awaited platform for on-demand CRM software, at dual events in Palo Alto, Calif., and New York. But the competition for on-demand customers is fierce. Smaller niche players like Salesforce.com, NetSuite and RightNow Technologies have all been in the on-demand game for half a decade—and…
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NetSuite Nabs MBS Partners
NetSuite announced Jan. 26 that it had poached five Microsoft Business Solution partners to its software-as-a-service way of life as part of its Microsoft Switch program. The NetSuite program offers Microsoft Dynamics VARs selling products such as Great Plains, Solomon, Navision, and CRM a 35 percent margin, a 50 percent discount on NetSuite for internal…
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F5 Delivers Next-Gen Traffic Management
F5 Networks on Monday continued its leapfrog game with competitors in the application delivery arena when it introduced a new 10G-bps hardware platform, a next-generation global link controller, and support for monitoring and managing traffic from loosely coupled Web services applications. F5’s news, coming on the heels of competitor Foundry Networks’ launch of its next-generation…
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Analysts: VARs Must Hurry to Seize SMB Opportunity
VARs have about 12 months to position themselves to sell to the small and midsize business space before awareness and competition make the sector a free for all. That’s the message to VARs from Andre Peiro, founder and chief executive officer of the Small Business Technology Institute, a nonprofit organization educating small business (fewer than…
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Analyst: Four Technologies Ripe for the SMB Market
The small to midsize business market may not be ready to grasp technology the way enterprise and midsize businesses have, but there are routes to the space that are more open than others, said Andrea Peiro, a small business maven. “Small business owners are unsophisticated about using technology, but they are not unsophisticated about their…
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Web + Partners is Redmond’s Chosen Route to the SMB
Microsoft’s Small Business + site, launched last week, is the latest step in the software giant’s strategy to engage small to midsize businesses on the Web and connect them to partners. The site, a suite of free, personalized online resources and technical support, and Microsoft Small Business Center are designed to draw interested customers and…
