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Archive for October, 2007
SaaS Lists and Early Predictions
Every day I see a new list of things to think about related to software as a service and enterprise 2.0. Here are a few of the more interesting lists I’ve seen recently:
5 Tenants of SaaS Integration
9 Things You Need to Know About SaaS
Top 10 Challenges Facing Enterprise Mashups
Top 10 Management Fears about Enterprise 2.0
And it seems […]
Colin White Weighs In
Industry analyst Colin White’s recent article on the acquisition of Business Objects Objects by SAP includes some great points on the impact on innovation in the traditional business intelligence market. He concludes:
“To summarize, business intelligence customers are looking for an integrated and lower-cost BI platform that is easy to deploy and use, and that also supports […]
Upcoming Salesforce.com User Groups
LucidEra is sponsoring this Thursday’s Salesforce.com User Group in Vancouver. We’ll also be in Boston on Tuesday. If you haven’t attended one of these meetings yet, they’re a great opportunity to network with other Salesforce administrators and users in your area and to learn about what’s coming in the Winter ‘08 Release. They’re also a […]
Accelerate Sales Effectiveness in a Sales 2.0 World
Here are the slides from last week’s LucidEra webinar with CSO Insights. Attendees will also receive their recent survey results. If you missed the event and would like more information, feel free to contact us for more information. We’ll also be at the Sales 2.0 Conference in San Francisco again tomorrow if you’d like to learn more about […]
Navigating AppExchange Analytics
With over 50 applications in the analytics category on the AppExchange, I am still often asked to provide an overview of the different applications and vendors. While there is a recorded webinar that reviews the different partners and a whitepaper on the topic of on-demand analytics, with so much choice for salesforce.com customers, it’s first and […]
5 Star Review for LucidEra
LucidEra Revenue Cycle Analysis received another 5-star customer review today on the salesforce.com AppExchange:
If you’re looking to get more out of your CRM investment be sure to take a LucidEra test-drive or register for our 10 Days to Insight trial on your data. You can also visit us at this week’s Sales 2.0 Conference.
Getting to Know LucidDB
LucidEra co-founder John Sichi has written a good summary on his blog of why the column-store approach is the perfect fit for our on-demand business analytics architecture. This post focuses on the key advantage of support for custom fields with no artificial limits and no performance penalty for adding more.
You can learn more about the […]
10 Days to Insight
I’ve been spending quite a bit of time since Dreamforce working with our customer success team and salesforce.com customers who have registered for our 10 Days to Insight trial. It’s an amazing moment when someone first sees what kind of business insight and visibility is possible with a system built from the ground up to deliver […]
LucidEra Spotlight on the B-Eye Network
Tune in to this interview with LucidEra CEO Ken Rudin to learn all about LucidEra, the opportunity for on-demand business intelligence, the LucidEra platform and applications, and our customers. As Ken says in the interview with Ron Powell,
“We are in a very exciting time right now. With the on-demand movement things are happening very quickly…The […]
LucidEra at the Orange County User Group Meeting
If you’re in the Irvine California area, you have a chance for a double shot of LucidEra tomorrow:
Attend our complimentary webinar in the morning - Accelerating Sales Effectiveness in a Sales 2.0 World
Join us at the Orange County User Group Meeting in the afternoon
At 3pm Wednesday October 24th we’ll be providing an introduction to LucidEra […]
Ken Rudin is the CEO of LucidEra. He co-founded the on-demand business intelligence company in 2005. Ken is a veteran of the rapidly growing software as a service industry with over 7 years of experience as an executive with leading on-demand software vendors. These include roles at Salesforce.com, at Netsuite (as an advisor), and at Siebel's on-demand division.
Darren Cunningham is the Director of Product Marketing at LucidEra. Prior to joining LucidEra he was the Category Director for salesforce.com AppExchange Analytics and Data Management. Before joining the on-demand world, he spent over 7 years at Business Objects.
Nate Bride is a Senior Account Executive at LucidEra. Nate has over 14 years experience in building, training, and running sales teams. Most recently, Nate was the VP of Sales at Abso, a leading provider of talent management solutions. Prior to Abso, Nate ran Sales Effectiveness at Salesforce.com. Nate is married with two young daughters and lives one hour from Lake Tahoe.