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SalesForce.com Tops Q3 Forecast, Keeps Outlook
Hats off to Benioff and company at SalesForce.com for beating the quarterly estimates and also for keeping guidance for the year. Analysts are grappling with whether the SaaS model is immune from slowing in a down economy and the simple...
Posted on November 21, 2008 5:59 AM
Brian Ross Joins Acredo Technologies
Hosted communications provider Acredo Technologies recently hired Mike Ross to bolster the company's sales. Acredo is headed up by Mike Ross a veteran of the communications space having worked for Dialogic, Rhetorex, Aculab and many others.Mike's son Brian worked with...
Posted on September 6, 2008 6:02 PM
Open Source Communications War
Behold the open source communications wars. In this corner weighing in at millions of downloads is Digium... A Huntsville, Alabama purveyor of all things Asterisk... From training to support to hardware, you name it.In the other corner with decades of...
Posted on August 18, 2008 11:44 AM
SaaS -- The Tide is Turning The Wrong Way
Without listing them all as their are too many, the recent outages of services from Amazon, Google and many others have people worrying about switching to hosted applications and moreover, some jobs may be at risk over decisions to go...
Posted on August 17, 2008 11:18 AM
Conjecture: Covad to Acquire Small PBX Player
In an effort to compete with PAETEC/Allworx, we can possibly expect Covad to make an acquisition before the year is over of a small PBX player which competes with Allworx. I have heard talk of this and numerous comments which...
Posted on July 30, 2008 10:28 AM
Contact Center and Service Provider Similarities
I have been seeing an interesting trend in the communications space. In the last 2-3 years, more and more companies who used to focus on service providers have expanded their focus into the call center space. Acme Packet and NextPoint...
Posted on July 17, 2008 2:50 PM
Google Docs Outage
Should SaaS Vendors Be More Accountable?Google had an outage in its office application division today. One wonders how they haven't had something similar happen with their search engine but the docs and spreadsheets were affected. I would imagine if both...
Posted on July 8, 2008 2:38 PM
Switchvox AA300
Greg Galitzine broke the news regarding the new Digium Switchvox AA300, a new appliance dedicated to companies with about 150 users. The box also supports 45 simultaneous calls, 10 recorded and 15 simultaneous conference calls. Tom Keating speculates about...
Posted on June 9, 2008 12:03 PM
Google Gears Powers MySpace
There is a fascinating transformation always taking place in computing. Mainframe computing relied on dumb terminals and then as clients became smarter, we started to migrate to client/server environments. Over time, news ways of working appeared and disappeared and more...
Posted on May 28, 2008 2:15 PM
Salesforce.com Grows 50%
If you have any doubts about the growth of CRM and the growth of SaaS models, I advise you to consider the fact that Salesforce.com just announced earnings up 52% for the quarter -- year-over-year. Here are some financial stats...
Posted on May 24, 2008 8:42 AM
EsnaTech Grows the Google Ecosystem
One of the latest trends I have noticed is integrating disparate solutions into Google's suite of applications. Just this month in fact, two companies in the communications and CRM spaces have decided working with Google more closely makes a great...
Posted on April 17, 2008 8:29 PM
Why Skype Should be Sold to Google
There are now rumors circulating that Google will buy Skype. These rumors are not new -- I wrote about this as recently as November 20 of 2007. But they did die down for a while and have been renewed. I...
Posted on April 16, 2008 8:08 PM
SalesForce.com Satisfaction Ratings
I was just reading an article from TMCnet's David Sims where he talks about SalesForce.com satisfaction ratings and I was blown away. Why? the company recently surveyed over 4,000 of their users and 94% said they definitely or probably will...
Posted on April 8, 2008 6:16 AM
Starface Looks for US IP-PBX Growth
I recently came across a software-based IP-PBX company from Germany that I have never written about before. Vertico Software GmBH makes a product called Starface which comes in a variety of flavors, from software to an appliance or hosted solution....
Posted on April 6, 2008 5:21 PM
Tech Data Carries Cbeyond
My equipment vendor contacts tell me Cbeyond has great quality of service on their SIP trunks when compared to others and this is not a surprise as they also supply the broadband pipe. So in order to get their excellent...
Posted on March 19, 2008 4:52 PM
Microsoft's SaaS Push
There are rumors suggesting Microsoft will soon unveil its hosted/on demand/Software as a Service strategy where many of its applications will be provided via the Internet. If Google is the strongest competitor in this space -- and they are... The...
Posted on March 1, 2008 4:14 PM
Dell Chooses Fonality
Fonality has some huge news to share with us here at Internet Telephony Conference & Expo. The company was just picked to be the small business communications offering by Dell. What is perhaps most amazing regarding this news is the...
Posted on January 23, 2008 12:00 AM
IPitomy: Branica's Latest Creation
Nick Branica is one of the few living legends in telecom having been responsible for the voicemail vendor Key Voice Technologies. This company was purchased in the nineties by Comdial and is credited by many for allowing Comdial to stay...
Posted on January 3, 2008 5:24 PM
Packet8: Slow and Steady Wins the Race
What is not to like about a company that keeps growing its customer base yet stays just under the radar so it isn't sued into oblivion? 8x8's Packet8 service continues to grow nicely and has just reached the 10,000 user...
Posted on January 2, 2008 6:20 PM
Covad Acquired by Platinum Equity
Covad was recently sold to private equity and this could be a good thing. The company made a big splash in the business VoIP segment years back but more recently Covad seemed to stop focusing on offering converged services and...
Posted on October 29, 2007 9:55 AM
Acredo
I recently had the opportunity to speak with Erin Bolton, marketing manager of Acredo Technologies Inc, about IP communications, the company’s customer base and the upcoming ITEXPO. Acredo Technologies delivers hosted IP phone service to the small business market...
Posted on August 21, 2007 3:00 AM
Packet Island
I recently had the opportunity to ask Packet Island President Praveen Kumar about VoIP, the IP Communications space and more. Packet Island provides the a micro-appliance based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that enables service providers and VARs to deliver managed...
Posted on August 15, 2007 6:35 PM
Oracle
The Oracle machine seems to keep rolling along day after day, week after week. Not only does the company continue to acquire best of breed companies and add them to their product/service offering they are also busy spending time educating...
Posted on June 6, 2007 6:25 PM
Oracle CRM
Oracle obviously knows a thing or two about CRM and with their recent acquisition of Siebel Systems they are even more firmly entrenched in the space than ever. The company has a recent white paper designed to help users get...
Posted on April 13, 2007 4:39 PM
Natural Convergence
About ten years ago I was waiting to be seated at a restaurant when a man came to the area in which I was waiting and started to open the vending machines. He had a few empty sacks with him...
Posted on January 3, 2007 4:27 PM
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