From Payroll to Profit
The most valuable business products today follow a simple theme of improving business-to-business communication using the software as a service model. In a world of “time is money” saving it is the million dollar business for companies using these products and the entrepreneurs providing them. People-centric products, services and revenues will continue to drive innovation and trends for the foreseeable future.
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Revealing the Little Black Dress
Corporate boards have always been looking with interest for CRM because customer relationship management seemed to be the dream come true for several business essentials:
CRM still meets the basics above, but the old model has lost its shine. We're currently facing the anatomy of the enterprise octopus.
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Imagine Solve360
Solve360 is all about teamwork; specifically, the work that happens every day in service focused businesses of all stripes. With Solve360 everyone seems to get more done and you’re back in control. Working together and staying vitally important to your clients is what it’s all about
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Leading The Evolution
The Web Is The New Desktop Over the past couple of years, it’s become commonplace to leave a browser and tabbed sites/apps running all day. As SaaS (Software as a Service) continues gaining acceptance, there will be a gradual shift in usage patterns until, perhaps a couple of years out, we all discover we’re spending more time working from the browser than installed apps running off a local hard drive. For Solve360 users, this shift has already begun: with reliable, abundant bandwidth available at low cost, faith that solid security models are in place, and the knowledge that their data is safer on our network drives than their LAN or local disk, they can work all day long in Solve360.
Solve360 erases the lingering interface artifacts of the last generation of Web apps, making the usage experience virtually indistinguishable from a best-of-breed installed application. We’ve accomplished this by AJAX-enabling the entire front end of the application and optimizing the back end databases and servers to dramatically increase overall speed and usability; functionally, it means instantaneous response to user inputs with no wait time for pages to refresh or data to be served up across the network.
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Web 2.0 - Real Or Hype?
Organizations looking for better tools to help them run their operations face a daunting challenge sifting through the chatter in the Web applications marketplace. Blogs are buzzing with predictions of how the nascent Web 2.0 revolution will change the way the Internet works, the IT media is dutifully covering the resurrection of ASP as SaaS (Software as a Service) and anointing SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) as the Second Coming of IT. Off on the edges of the radar screen, gangs of bright Silicon Valley engineers and entrepreneurs gather at the technology equivalent of potluck dinners to plot the future of the Online Universe and introduce fresh new buzzwords into the lexicon. Legions of VCs, looking to be the first investor in the next FaceBook or Google, are fueling the frenzy by lobbing $5-million care packages into startups. Meanwhile, a mainstream media that has no idea what’s going on is eagerly churning out anecdotal stories as proof of emerging trends.
How is a small team or organization intent on making intelligent IT decisions to make sense of it all? What’s real, what’s hype, and what’s merely the evolution and refinement of tried and true ideas and processes? Perhaps more critical, how can a small business determine what companies have, or are likely to have, real products and services that represent a best-practice implementation of the New World Web paradigm?