THINKstrategies announced today Qubole has been named a winner of the Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Award. This program promotes the measurable business benefits delivered by today’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions.

The BoSS Awards is an ongoing program administered by THINKstrategies’ Cloud Computing Showplace to recognize SaaS companies that are delivering measurable business benefits to specific user organizations. These benefits can include increased sales, lower costs, higher customer satisfaction, faster operations and greater profitability.

Qubole  is a self-service big data analytics company that provides a fast, easy and reliable path to turn big data into valuable business insights. Qubole’s cloud-based platform simplifies the challenges of managing infrastructure to process huge volumes of structured and unstructured data. With Qubole deployed in an Amazon Web Services, Google Compute and/or Microsoft Azure Cloud, enterprises put big data processing in the hands of their users without having to build … Read More »

The latest Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage has generated a new round of debate regarding the reliability of cloud services.

Yet, AWS’s growth hasn’t slowed. Instead, a growing number of large and small organizations are using AWS offerings because of the measurable business benefits they can attain.

Read THINKstrategies’ views in SearchAWS about why enterprises will continue to rely on AWS despite the occasional disruption.

In the past, traditional consultancies depended on large-scale IT and software development projects that could take years to complete for the bulk of their consulting revenues.

In today’s on-demand world, corporate executives and end users want quicker results at a far lower cost with much less risk. Acquiring a fast-growing cloud consultancy can inject new energy and provide new insights.

Read THINKstrategies’ perspectives about how these changing customer expectations are driving the latest round of Cloud consultancy acquisitions in E-Commerce Times.

Salesforce.com unveiled its Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities, the IoT Cloud, and new Health Cloud at Dreamforce 2015. See what I had to say about these new offerings at the event in this video interview with TechTarget’s SearchCRM.

Contact us if you’d like to discuss how these announcements impact your business.

Channel Data Management Provider’s SaaS Applications and Managed Services Gives Companies Multi-Tier Channel Visibility via the Cloud

THINKstrategies announced today Zyme has been named a winner of the Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Award. This program promotes the measurable business benefits delivered by today’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions.

The BoSS Awards is an ongoing program administered by THINKstrategies’ Cloud Computing Showplace to recognize SaaS companies that are delivering measurable business benefits to specific user organizations. These benefits can include increased sales, lower costs, higher customer satisfaction, faster operations and greater profitability.

Zyme offers cloud-based SaaS applications and managed services for multi-tier channel visibility. Zyme’s Channel Data Management (CDM) platform helps manufacturers make better business decisions with verified channel sales and inventory data from distributors, retailers and resellers in 200 countries. Zyme’s applications, purchased by manufacturers and accessed by channel partners, support critical business processes including revenue … Read More »

Last week’s Dreamforce conference brought together two former software industry adversaries to offer a new set of cloud-based services that promise to enable businesses and other institutions to capitalize on the flood of new data expected to be produced by the Internet of Things (IoT).

Salesforce.com has been promoting the idea of the “Internet of the Customer” for a couple of years. It employed its unparalleled aspirational marketing skills to paint a picture of a better world for the people (customers) who sit behind the things, if the companies that serve them tap the data to build better products and deliver better services. Microsoft has also been promoting the virtues of a more mobile and connected world that requires greater collaboration and productivity software tools along with greater database systems and information services.

Salesforce used Dreamforce to unveil a new IoT Cloud … Read More »

Today’s rejuvenated Cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) solutions are nothing more than glorified Web-based customer records management systems unless they are properly integrated with back-end systems to ensure that customers get the products and services they expect.

This is especially critical in a brave new world in which the Internet of Things (IoT)  will expand exponentially the ways companies are expected to engage with their customers.

In an era in which customer loyalty is a fleeting commodity and customer churn is intolerable, it isn’t too soon to think about the next Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) wave.

THINKstrategies believes Customer Lifetime Value Management (CLVM) in the Cloud inevitably will supplant the market focus on CRM to ensure a seamless customer journey.

Click here to read our views in E-Commerce Times about why it is imperative for corporate decision-makers to take a more holistic approach … Read More »

The ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) may be the most confusing idea conjured up by the tech industry since the advent of the ‘cloud.’ But a recent survey clearly shows that the first round of IoT deployments are already generating meaningful business results, which will encourage others to get onboard the IoT train.

I’ve been warning IT executives and other professionals to get ready for their responsibilities to dramatically change for a couple of years. Rather than ‘just’ being responsible for managing hardware systems and business applications, IoT puts IT in the middle of the product/service development process. It also makes IT responsible for ensuring the timely delivery and maintenance of products and services. And, as a result, IT is now directly impacted by the success or failure of new products and services in the marketplace.

The good news is that a majority … Read More »

The Internet of Things (IoT) market has been struggling to get untangled, despite the hype regarding unprecedented business opportunities. GE’s latest initiative to capitalize on those IoT opportunities might be the catalyst many corporate executives have been waiting for to advance their own goals. GE has been in the vanguard of efforts to fortify the Web — to build a new, more scalable and secure Industrial Internet.

Read THINKstrategies’ perspectives in E-Commerce Times regarding GE’s recently announced Predix Cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that promises to help enterprises capture and analyze IoT data.