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OnLive ‘Cloud Gaming Service’ Opens Beta Sign-ups

When you sign up for OnLive Beta, you tell us some general information about your ISP, your computer configuration and your location. We use this information to organize Beta testers into test groups so that our engineering team can focus at different times on testing different situations. If you are a potential fit for a particular test group, we’ll send you an invitation email, asking you to run a detailed Performance Test on your network connection
and your computer configuration. The results of the Performance Test will then feed back up to OnLive, and if you are a fit for a test group at some point during Beta, we’ll let you install the OnLive plug-in into your browser. Then, we’ll ask you to spend some time playing…um, I mean…testing
games OnLive.

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Salesforce Launches $9 Per Month Lightweight Contact Manager For Small Businesses

For $9 per user per month, Contact Manager Edition will store and manage all contacts and accounts in the cloud. The product will integrate with any email system, including Microsoft Outlook, Gmail, Yahoo. The system will track all emails, keeping a record of customer interactions and will run pre-configured and customized reports on contacts and accounts. Of course, this tracking system can be customized to track data that is most important to an user’s needs.

Interestingly, the Contact Manager Edition will come automatically with integration with Google Apps, the search giant’s cloud based productivity suite that is steadily gaining enterprise customers and already has a foothold among small businesses. community. All applications within Google Apps, including Gmail, Calendar, Docs, etc, will be integrated with the lightweight CRM. Not only is this an interesting partnership, but the strength of Salesforce’s CRM combined with the steady growth of Google Apps certainly puts pressure on Microsoft.

 


I've heard numerous times (as well as observed) that most clients use their CRM for little more than contact management. Whether that's right or wrong that seems to be the reality for large numbers of people. At $9/month the pricing is starting to become realistic for small businesses.

There are some restrictions with this Salesforce edition -- not the least of which is a 2 user maximum.

Web-based  Contact Manager
  • 1–2 users
  • Store contacts
  • Track customers
  • Run activity reports
  • Manage tasks and meetings
  • Works with any email application,
    including Outlook & Gmail
  • 99.9% availability

Link to sign up site:

http://www.salesforce.com/crm/editions-pricing.jsp

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Netsuite for iPhone available in the iTunes App Store

Netsuite is one of the first ERP applications that I have noticed in the App store. Most of the functionality is read only viewing of trends and data.

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NetSuite claims using their SaaS online accounting suite saves an average of $10,000 annual electricity

By switching to NetSuite, you’ll help the environment and save money. In fact, a recent impact study by Greenspace showed that NetSuite customers reduce their annual electricity bills by an average of $10,000.

Anyone beside me ready to request a copy of that study? How on earth does one save ON AVERAGE $10,000 annual electricity by switching to a hosted online accounting application??!!

Some NetSuite Pricing:

---NetSuite license pricing starts at $299 or $499 per month plus $79 or $99 per User

---Advanced Inventory module can be added on to your NetSuite account for $299 per month

---Advanced Financials module can be added on to your NetSuite account for $299 per month

---Advanced Billing module can be added on to your NetSuite account for $399 per month

---Incentive Compensation / Commission module can be added on to your NetSuite account for $299 per month

---Advanced Project Accounting module can be added on to your NetSuite account for $399 per month

---Add the SiteBuilder module to NetSuite for $299 per month (fully customizable Web Design, SEO Optimization, Multi-Currency shopping, Shopping Comparison feeds to Google Base, Shopping.com, Shopzilla, Nextag and more ....)

---Add Advanced Analytics to NetSuite for $299 per month to take advantage of full circle Marketing Campaigns with outbound email promotions tied to Web Store Analytics and ROI per campaign

Source:
http://www.horizonassociates.net/Product-Datasheets

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Filed under  //   Accounting Software   cloud computing   ERP   greenspace   hosted applications   microsoft   netsuite   sage   sap  

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