• SaaS Summit flier released…

     

    I received an email this morning with the flier for the May 19th 2nd annual SaaS summit. It looks like a good line up with presenters from the following; Salesforce.com ActionThis OneNet Results Group Fronde PlanHQ Telecom X Change…

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  • Xero in Christchurch

     

    Xero (and their PR figurehead, Olympian Hamish Carter) will be in Christchurch next week. Those is the garden city should check them out; Event details: What: Introduction to Xero session with Hamish Carter and Grant Cartwright When: Monday 17th…

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  • This one’s straight from the “what the..” category

     

    From computerworld this morning Telecom chief executive Paul Reynolds has joined the board of XConnect Global Networks, which provides VoIP and IP-based services From the Xconnect website XConnect’s award winning services enable over 400 VoIP service providers and carriers…

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  • Another SaaS offering – Digital Assets Management

     

    This morning I took part in a phone conference with Widen.com, a US based provider of digital assets management (DAM) solutions via SaaS. I got hold of Widen while researching for a conference presentation later in the year and…

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  • SaaSu rolls out new updates…

     

    SaaS accounting vendor SaaSu, rolled out a new update recently with some interesting and useful new features. Some highlights are as follows; Saasu Catch – That new little box in the top left corner has more power than your…

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  • Are CIOs a dying breed?

     

    Excellent article in CIO about the prognosis for the role of CIO. Read it in full here, but some good quotes with my responses; The true CIO is a strategic thinker focused on business issues and needs, and does…

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  • NZI report on broadband for New Zealand

     

    As a follow up to last years report, and in light of recent developments, the New Zealand Institute has released a report entitled “Assesing New Zealand’s current broadband path: The need for change”. As is to be expected, the…

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  • Oracle brings 2.0 goodness to CRM

     

    Oracle’s latest release of it’s CRM product brings social networking functionality into enterprise CRM. Phil has some relevant comments and says; The lead component of Oracle CRM’s new social capabilities is a new feature called ‘Sticky Notes’. This allows…

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  • Hmm – I hope she takes her family…

     

    I don’t normally comment much on politics but this one I couldn’t resist. Seems a bunch of soon-to-retire MPs are taking a taxpayer funded trip to Europe (junket you say?). One of those MPs is Katherine Rich who only…

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  • IT Departments – they’re gone but not

     

    (cross posting from MiramarMike: Enterprise 2.0 New Zealand Style)  This’ll be my last posting for a while regarding the future of IT Departments as I think I’ve said all I need to say – they’re history! Wellll, not really.…

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