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Moving towards your career goals based on your passion
I am a true believer in making your selections in your career based on your passion. Let me explain why. Every day should be a learning experience so having to deal with something that you are not passionate about might take you into places where you do not want to be. I wanted to share…
Read MoreLearnings of using software tools to run your business – Part 3
In my previous blog entry I gave the overall view how our Dynamics CRM 2013 account/contact entities have been used and what kind of Dynamics CRM 2013 custom fields I have used with those entities. In this blog entry I will describe the process how we integrate to SharePoint 2013 Online (part of Office 365).…
Read MoreLearnings of using software tools to run your business – Part 2
In my previous blog I concluded that we typically make our solutions to hard to use and non-intuitive for our users. I also told that I have over engineered many solutions and I guess I could blaim my accounting degree for that. I just wanted to make sure we collect everything that we might need…
Read MoreLearnings of using software tools to run your business – Part 1
I have quite a few years behind me running companies and also helping out companies to grow the business with some key learnings. One of the key questions that has puzzled me all these years is how to make solutions to support information workers and not the other way around. Solutions are unfortunately still built based on what…
Read MoreIs your software SaaS solution channel friendly?
Every software vendor needs to think about the question whether its SaaS-solution is channel friendly. And I am not talking about channel friendly from a financial perspective, but also from the perspective how your channel partners can administer its end users customers and deploy the solutions. One of the biggest challenges that many software vendors…
Read MoreVelocity of Business Models
It is amazing to see how the velocity of business models is changing the entire cloud landscape. I read an InformationWeek article this morning about Gartner’s Magic Quadrant 2014 for cloud, its winners and losers and how for example Rackspace business model has change drastically the past year or so. Rackspace used to be the poster child in hosting…
Read MoreThe importance of ecosystems
If you work in the software industry, I am sure that you have heard people using the word “ecosystem”. A good example of an ecosystem is that of Microsoft that spans globally and has more than 500k partners of different types and with different focus. If you want to focus on Microsoft ecosystem, you have…
Read MoreIs the cloud killing your business?
Cloud adoption is accelerating and it is also in the process killing many businesses. I read today an interesting blog entry “Are Cloud Vendors Cutting Out the Channel” and this article explains in great detail what is happening on the marketplace in respect to channel partners including value-added resellers (VARs) and MSPs. I remember vividly when…
Read MoreApp Ecosystem and APIs
I am a big proponent of APIs (application programming interfaces). Many of you might think that I must have a sick sense of humor, but I am seriously excited about this topic. We have finally moved to a new era where software development is moving away from trying to build colossal solutions that take years…
Read MoreWill your app developer be able to support your app use?
I believe in the new app ecosystem. I can see the change happening in front of my eyes and I can see this in many ways. I can buy and install value-added apps for our Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Online solution without having to call anybody and most of these solutions can be tried out…
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