Category: News

Sage doles out kudos

Sage Software announced today the 2006 Business Partner of the Year recipients and “million dollar achievers” for its channel partner community. Business Partner of the Year honors are given to top ranking business partners for each of Sage Software’s mid-market product lines and solutions groups: accounting solutions; construction and real estate; specialized business solutions; non-profit […]

Checkered Flag flies again

The checkered flag flies again, thanks to a dealer. Dealer.com, a provider of eMarketing solutions in the automotive industry, today announced the relaunch of revitalized CheckeredFlag.com, a reoutfitting that took less than three weeks. Dealer.com employed its own “SmartSite technology” to rebuild the pages. Checkered Flag Motor Car Corporation is a family-owned and -operated dealership […]

The B-word

There’s something about that magic word “billion” that generates a buzz. Today, it’s a report released from Access Market International Partners Inc. Entitled “Mid-Market CRM: Vendor Strategies for a New Frontier,” the report deploys the B-word in AMI’s forecast for CRM solutions by America’s mid-sized business market this year. The report takes a look at […]

Skura and Novartis team up

A partnership has been announced between Skura Corporation, a closed-loop marketing solutions provider for the life sciences industry, and Novartis Pharmaceuticals Canada. The agreement kicks off what the companies hope is “an innovative initiative to dramatically improve the work-life balance of their Canadian Oncology sales force.” Under terms of the arrangement, SFX Viewer running on […]

SAS high on success

Not quite sure if SAS is punch drunk or slap happy, but the fact is that they’ve now got two new official kudos to claim. SAS representatives today announced that, “in a double-punch,” the firm has been recognized by IT market research and advisory firm IDC as the largest predictive analytics vendor in the worldwide […]

Gates gets GETS

Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc., an Alcatel company, has announced that Gates Corporation (no relation, but in fact a division of US $4 billion-valued UK-based Tomkins PLC), has implemented the Genesys Enterprise Telephony Software (a.k.a. GETS) platform. Gates bills itself as the only non-tire producing rubber company with sales and manufacturing operations in all of the […]

04’s sign? Capricorn!

Ireland-based CRM specialist Capricorn Ventis Limited has announced the signing of an agreement with field sales software specialist O4 Corporation to deliver O4 software in Ireland. CVL hopes to pitch O4 to companies in the consumer packaged goods markets using CRM packages such as Siebel, Sage and Microsoft – a large market, then. O4’s field […]

Voice gets louder

Voice Print International has acquired privately held firm Syntora, Inc., a provider of agent performance optimization solutions for contact centers. Voice Print International is a developer of integrated interaction recording and workforce optimization solutions. Voice Print sees the acquisition as an opportunity to enhance its Activ! Performance Suite of contact center solutions, improving the degree […]

Green Beacon stands alone

Watertown, Mass.-based Green Beacon Solutions, a CRM, ERP and marketing automation services provider (and partner of Microsoft and Onyx), has announced the acquisition of competitor MSC eConsulting. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. A small firm no more, the legend of Green Beacon began in 2001 with US $3,000 in start-up capital. Today, the […]

NetSuite offers lifetime fixed price

Never mind “sticker shock.” The Chump’s about to go into cardiac arrest over the offer put forth from NetSuite. The on-demand business software suite provider has announced a package for those jumping ship from Salesforce.com: Switch now and get a lifetime subscription price fixed at the price of your most recent invoice. As a bonus, […]