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Cloud Computing/SaaS: The Subscription Economy and Customer-Focused Selling

By Dick Weisinger

Salesforce.com deserves credit for being an early pioneer in  the SaaS market.  Now, a little more than a decade since Salesforce.com opened its doors, the SaaS market is estimated to be a $12 billion one, and it is growing at a…

Big Data: Banks See the Opportunity of Data Analytics

By Dick Weisinger

Big Data is likely to have profound impact on every industry.  Banking and finance is one sector that is likely to feel the effects sooner than others. Jim Marous, Financial Marketing Consultant, wrote that “there are very few places where more…

ERP: You Win Some, You Lose Some. Technology Successes and Failures

By Dick Weisinger

ERP has a reputation for being able to bring about revolutionary transformation for some businesses, and in some cases it has.  But there have been notable exceptions, and when something goes wrong with an ERP implementation, things can be painful.…

Big Data: Venture Funds Flow into Analytics Startups

By Dick Weisinger

With the big hype around Big-Data-related technologies continues, it is not surprising that venture capital money is flowing into the technology at a feverish pace. In 2011, Thomson Reuters estimates that US venture companies invested a total of $2.47 billion into…

PLM: Changing with Technology to Stay Relevant

By Dick Weisinger

Traditional business software sellers are under siege as new technologies like Cloud Computing and Social Media continue to build momentum.  PLM is no exception and we are beginning to see changes in PLM functionality and the way in which it…