Online, Mobile & IT

  • What's Your Customer Cloud Strategy?

    Twelve Customer Requirements to Include as Your Firm Migrates to Cloud Computing

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    A “customer cloud” is the virtual project space where your customers can securely access, keep track of, and manage the assets they’ve bought from you as well as any related projects in which they’re engaged.
    Feb. 9, 2012
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  • America's First Responders Need Your Help!

    Support Legislation that Would Allocate the D Block Spectrum to Public Safety!

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    A white paper published by the Public Safety Alliance describing why the U.S. Congress should support legislation to allocate wireless spectrum to public safety.
    Sep. 1, 2011
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  • Why Apple's iCloud Service Will Be Successful

    iCloud Service Provides Much-Needed Seamless Synchronization of Digital Media and Applications

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    Apple’s iCloud offering is misunderstood. It’s not a streaming audio/video service. It’s a “keep my life in synch across my devices” service.
    Jun. 30, 2011
    Strategies
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  • Living and Working in "the Cloud"

    How Digital Services are Reshaping Our Lives

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    Are you addicted to digital services, mobile apps, cloud computing, SaaS, social media, and digital media? Here are some things to think about before it’s too late!
    Jun. 2, 2011
    Strategies
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  • SDL BeGlobal 1.1

    Real-Time, Automated Translation for Knowledgebase Content

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    SDL BeGlobal 1.1 from SDL plc is a content translation platform that provides cloud-based, automated, real-time translation between 85 pairs of source and target languages. Learn how you might use the product to localize your customer service content.
    May. 12, 2011
    Technologies
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  • Five Reasons to Put Your Business in the Cloud

    How SaaS Is Changing Ecommerce and the Software Industry, and What You Should Do About It

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    SaaS has democratized advanced capabilities that had been available only to top tier sites, signaling a revolution in how software is consumed. Learn why SaaS is so hot. Prepare your checklist for finding the right SaaS for your company.
    Apr. 14, 2011
    Strategies
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  • Nature's Scitable: Going Mobile

    Why Scitable Chose a Mobile Web Strategy Over a Mobile App Strategy for Its First Mobile Initiative

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    What’s the best mobile strategy to embrace if you want to reach mobile users around the world and get optimized search placement? Here’s what Nature Education’s Scitable division did.
    Mar. 31, 2011
    Strategies
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  • WikiLeaks Will Catalyze a Huge Data Security Backlash

    Patty's Pioneers' Predictions for 2011

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    Reactions to WikiLeaks will cause massive capital investment in information security causing a significant stimulus to the IT industry in 2011. 2011 will also herald the beginning of major decline in freedom on the Web
    Jan. 6, 2011
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  • Mobile Web and Video Clog the Internet; Tablet Glut

    A Few 2011 Predictions

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    2011 sees the introduction of over 50 new tablets. Winners will be: Apple, RIM (Playbook), Samsung, and Motorola. FCC’s recent action on Net Neutrality will be overturned. Streaming video will clog Internet pipes.
    Jan. 6, 2011
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  • Designing/Refining Your Mobile Strategy

    Fourteen Approaches to Consider as You Reach Out to Customers Using Mobile Devices

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    Mobile phones will soon surpass computers as the most prevalent way to do business online. Your business needs a mobile strategy. Here’s how to think about it.
    Dec. 23, 2010
    Strategies
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  • Oracle to Acquire ATG

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    Big news in ecommerce last week. On November 2, Oracle announced its intention to acquire ATG. Who will be the winners and losers of this deal?
    Nov. 11, 2010
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  • Customers.com Handbook

    A Handbook for Your Customers.com® Initiatives—Parts 1 to 4

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    In Customers.com Classic, we described the successful Internet Strategies of sixteen different best practices organizations. Those firms are still ahead of the pack in executing customer-centric strategies that keep customers loyal and empowered. There are eight core competencies that these early leaders adopted. Now, 12 years later, those same core competencies still stand the test of time.
    Sep. 16, 2010
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  • Demandware eCommerce Platform Winter '10

    Metrics-Driven Merchandising and a Comprehensive Sample Store Strengthen an Attractive SaaS Ecommerce Platform

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    This in-depth evaluation of Demandware eCommerce, with its hosted multi-tenant deployment, reveals very good merchandising, and analytic functionality, but not-so-good assisted-service.
    Mar. 25, 2010
    Technologies
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  • 2009 Ecommerce Product and Supplier Update

    A Very Good Year in Ecommerce

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    Get the details about customer growth, product activity, and company performance for the six leading ecommerce platform suppliers in 2009.
    Feb. 25, 2010
    Technologies
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  • Venda Enterprise

    Excellent Merchandising and Customer Service with SaaS Deployment for Retailers

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    Our in-depth evaluation of Venda Enterprise, the ecommerce platform from privately-held and NY, NY-based Venda, Inc. designed for rapid, SaaS deployment by merchandisers and used by 140 retailers in North America and Europe.
    Feb. 11, 2010
    Technologies
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  • Elastic Path Commerce 6.2

    Robust Ecommerce Framework Based on Open Source Components

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    This is our in-depth evaluation of Elastic Path Commerce offering, Elastic Path Commerce, an open source-based platform geared for heavy customization and deep integration.
    Jan. 14, 2010
    Technologies
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  • IBM's Enterprise Content Management Strategy: Bigger than ERP?

    Broader and Deeper; Redefines Both Content and Management

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    IBM's Enterprise Content Management (ECM) strategy is big—very big. And that’s good news for customers.
    Nov. 25, 2009
    Technologies
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  • Google Android vs. Apple iPhone

    Whose Application Ecosystem Will Win?

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    Google Android vs. Apple iPhone: Which mobile phone platform and ecosystem will attract more customers and applications? What should your company’s strategy be?
    Oct. 30, 2009
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  • Search Product and Company Update 2H2008

    Surprisingly Successful Second Half Caps Economic Challenge of 2008

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    Despite the U.S. recession, the search vendors on my watch list performed quite well during the first half.
    Apr. 16, 2009
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  • FiftyOne: Enabling International Customers to Buy from U.S. E-Tailers

    E-Commerce Services that Extend Your Reach into Canada and Europe

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    FiftyOne, from E4X, Inc., is a software and services offering that extends your existing ecommerce system with comprehensive support for checkout, fulfillment, and customer service to make it easy for international customers to do business you.
    Mar. 26, 2009
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