SugarCRM and Microsoft have worked together for years now – and we’re actually seeing more than 60% of Sugar deployments on the MS stack. But today’s announcement around Sugar Community Edition now on Microsoft’s Web Gallery opens up a lot of cool opportunities for developers of all kinds. Microsoft has been making it easier and … Continue reading »
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Microsoft Azure: Building Custom Extensions vs. Altering the Architecture
Making a CRM solution fit your business processes, and not visa versa, has been a cornerstone of CRM implementations for well over 10 years, but the concept of leveraging an application’s base functionality as a platform into other capabilities has really taken off with cloud computing. There’s a strong difference between a SaaS vendor providing … Continue reading »
The Open Cloud Manifesto: Why Won’t Salesforce.com Join the Party?
We here at SugarCRM have been touting the idea of an Open Cloud for a while now. So, we were not surprised when the Open Cloud manifesto appeared this week. Spearheaded by IBM and a number of other large tech firms, the document basically says that cloud computing must remain as open as possible to … Continue reading »
Sometimes the More Things Change…
The folks over at Microsoft CRM have been making some announcements this week. And most of the stuff, in my opinion, is a step in the right direction. The free add-ons are a handful of strong features that I can see a lot of people using. The notion of creating a value-based ecosystem is not … Continue reading »
Microsoft’s and Sun’s Take on the Cloud
I’ve been reading up on Sun Microsystem’s latest offering in the cloud computing space, and taken in the context of Martin’s recent post on Microsoft’s take on the cloud, found some points that nicely compliment each other. Cloud computing still has a long way to go before it reaches the enterprise mainstream, but it’s obvious … Continue reading »
SXSW Panel Shows Microsoft Gets Cloud Computing
I just followed a long Twitter channel and some press and blog reports from a panel on Cloud Computing held at the South by Southwest festival in Austin Texas. (How cloud computing can find its way into what has traditionally been an indie music festival shows just how amorphous a concept cloud really is.) The … Continue reading »
Ubuntu vs. Azure: Underscoring the Importance of Developers
I’ve been blogging a lot lately about cloud computing and the role developers will play in their ability to make these emerging platforms more consumable. So when I saw that Ubuntu announced this week that cloud computing will be a cornerstone of its next release in October, it caught my attention. Ubuntu makes a compelling … Continue reading »
A Quick Note on SugarCRM, Open Source and Internationalization
I keep promising myself I am NOT going to spend too much time in the blogosphere and actually get everything done that I need to do before SugarCon kicks off on Monday. But of course – I find myself spending most of the morning going through blog comments, and skimming over my Google alerts. In … Continue reading »
Will Yang’s Departure Bring Microsoft Back to Yahoo?
Just saw that Jeffry Yang will step-down as CEO of Yahoo – after what some observers see as two major failures as leader of the internet search pioneer. The general notion is that the departure means that a more operations-based chief will take charge, and help streamline Yahoo’s lines of business. But I also think … Continue reading »
The Credit Crunch and CRM – More of a Direct Connection than I Thought…
So I was reading Larry Dignan’s blog today about Microsoft offering zero percent financing for its CRM and ERP systems and at first thought to myself – “ha ha, what a cute marketing ploy, I get it.” But upon looking further, it appears this isn’t being done with tongue planted firmly in cheek at all. … Continue reading »
