Cloud Database
Data Hoarders: Worse Than Cats and Takeout Boxes
Photo courtesy of Grap
A few days ago a friend of mine told me her office is getting rid of Salesforce. When I asked her to explain why, the long and short of it came down to data hoarding. Some of her office’s sales associates were refusing to use Salesforce because they didn’t want lead and contact information available to the company; the idea being that this tactic created better job security. Whether or not this is a solid plan for sales reps is another blog topic altogether, but the idea of data hoarding made me realize another benefit the cloud brings to companies that I hadn’t realized before.
Top Five Cloud Predictions for 2011
Thus far in 2011 there have been an array of predictions lists released. However, all of these lists are irrelevant because THIS is the only list that TrackVia CEO, Matt McAdams, wrote. Therefore, this is the only one that will nail every item.
Here's the complete list, which was published as a guest article on Jump to the Cloud:
Salesforce's Chatter Super Bowl Ad – Not Making My Life Any Easier
Photo courtesy of www.chatter.com
In the year I’ve worked for TrackVia, describing my job and company to the general public has been an ongoing challenge. Here’s how a typical conversation goes:
Me: “I work for a company that provides an online database and business application platform.”
General Public: “…”
Me: “We’re a cloud company, do you know what the cloud is?”
General Public: “No. Wait, yes. Like in those commercials, ‘to the cloud,’ right?”
