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11/17/2017

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09/12/2017

Oracle's Numbers

E-commerceTimes News Oracle's Numbers - Oracle will announce its Q1 revenue and profit numbers after market clo... https://t.co/gcIhGrfxQt

Oracle will announce its Q1 revenue and profit numbers after market close on Wednesday. There's more than a little excitement about what might be revealed, specifically if the company can continue its rise, thanks to its cloud products. The anticipated answer is yes, but there's potential for a surp...

09/09/2017

Biggest Obstacle to Business Success: Multicloud Management

E-commerceTimes News Biggest Obstacle to Business Success: Multicloud Management https://t.co/KTR0KAcd4p

The rise of Microsoft Azure as a major competitor to AWS has become a mixed blessing for IT managers. Many were pleased to see Microsoft finally become a cloud-first company and build Azure into a viable alternative, but they now are faced with a new set of challenges to make the most of multiple cl...

09/08/2017

Taking Business Communication in Stride

E-commerceTimes News Taking Business Communication in Stride https://t.co/UN90ezPzQR

Atlassian has announced the development of Stride, a new Slack-like workplace tool designed to streamline the communication process for business users. Stride enables teams to take action via both a smart text-based messaging service and a fully featured video and audio service. The latter functiona...

09/07/2017

6 Reasons You Need CPQ

E-commerceTimes News 6 Reasons You Need CPQ - Many businesses still don't use configure, price, quote software ... https://t.co/moGsHWPNou

Many businesses still don't use configure, price, quote software in their routine sales processes. Maybe they don't need it, but for businesses that still cling to spreadsheet-based approaches to track things like price lists and product catalogs, chances are good that they're dealing with more over...

09/06/2017

Enterprise SaaS Market Skyrockets: Report

E-commerceTimes News Enterprise SaaS Market Skyrockets: Report https://t.co/PH3NKZONKc

The enterprise SaaS market grew 31 percent year over year, totaling almost $15 billion in revenue in Q2 2017, according to Synergy Research. Collaboration was the highest growth segment. Microsoft is the clear leader in overall enterprise SaaS revenues, having overtaken Salesforce a year ago. Micros...

09/01/2017

How Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Can Stand Up to E-Commerce

E-commerceTimes News How Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Can Stand Up to E-Commerce https://t.co/5qoSKXiNGP

Brick-and-mortar retailers have been finding it difficult to offer pricing that's competitive with e-commerce sites, which have the advantage of massive scope and scale, according to a report Frost & Sullivan's Stratecast service released Wednesday. E-commerce will account for nearly 18 percent of t...

08/31/2017

Apple, Accenture Team on iOS Enterprise Apps

E-commerceTimes News Apple, Accenture Team on iOS Enterprise Apps https://t.co/CH0SH4rzjq

Apple and Accenture on Tuesday announced a new partnership to develop iOS tools and services to help enterprises connect with their customers through iPads and iPhones. Accenture will create a dedicated iOS practice within Accenture Digital Studios, staffed by a range of visual and experience design...

08/30/2017

Ten Billion

E-commerceTimes News Ten Billion - Salesforce announced the partial attainment of one of its long-range goals i... https://t.co/ioLlF9X38Q

Salesforce announced the partial attainment of one of its long-range goals in its Q2 earnings announcement last week: It eclipsed its goal of a $10 billion run rate. This will be followed by similar announcements over the next year -- first $10 billion year, etc. -- and why not? The company should c...

08/29/2017

Amazon Takes 1st Steps Toward Whole Foods Pricing Makeover

E-commerceTimes News Amazon Takes 1st Steps Toward Whole Foods Pricing Makeover https://t.co/ONJisWoxjn

Amazon kicked off the completion of its acquisition of Whole Foods Market with steep price cuts on some products. Among those now available at lower prices are Whole Trade bananas, organic avocados, organic large brown eggs, responsibly-farmed salmon and tilapia, organic baby kale and baby lettuce,…

08/26/2017

Consumer Healthcare: Growing Importance of Patient Education and Communications Solutions

E-commerceTimes News Consumer Healthcare: Growing Importance of Patient Education and Communications Solutions https://t.co/l7WVxLohyl

As the healthcare industry shifts to value-based care models, patient education and communication solutions increasingly have become an investment priority for care providers and payers. Consumers have many means, whether digital or analog, to acquire medical knowledge and personal health informatio...

08/25/2017

Ad Tech's Future Beyond Facebook and Google

E-commerceTimes News Ad Tech's Future Beyond Facebook and Google https://t.co/Hsd6PMRLpf

Advertising technology, or ad tech, is a relatively new business segment. Both Google and Facebook have been very successful with this new advertising model. Going forward, will ad tech be important and rapidly expand to a wider segment, or will it be limited to the way certain companies show value…

08/24/2017

Tech Leaders Urge UN to Ban AI-Based Lethal Weapons

E-commerceTimes News Tech Leaders Urge UN to Ban AI-Based Lethal Weapons https://t.co/WsD4mcZgqN

A group of the world's top technology leaders have published an open letter urging the United Nations to ban the use of AI in weapons systems, amid growing concerns that autonomous killer robots could wind up taking control. The group of 116 companies, most of which specialize in robotics or AI, arg...

08/23/2017

Kari's Law: A 911 Fix That Will Make the US Safer

E-commerceTimes News Kari's Law: A 911 Fix That Will Make the US Safer https://t.co/8m5r6bzCDZ

The 911 emergency number was created back in the day when telephones were connected by wires, before cellphones or Voice over Internet Protocol in the home, and before Multi-Line Telephone Systems in the enterprise. In the early days, anyone could dial 911 for police, fire or medical emergencies. Wh...

08/22/2017

Has Marketing Automation Started Making Sense?

E-commerceTimes News Has Marketing Automation Started Making Sense? https://t.co/JZuXsaTcnT

B2B marketing automation has a long way to go, suggest the results of a recent survey of more than 350 marketing professionals in the United States and Europe. Act-On Software commissioned Econsultancy to conduct the research for its State of B2B Marketing report released last week. Only 51 percent…

08/19/2017

Oracle Unveils Exadata Database as a Service

E-commerceTimes News Oracle Unveils Exadata Database as a Service https://t.co/uiCmGS9Sqq

Oracle earlier this week announced the availability of its Exadata platform on its next-generation cloud infrastructure, which essentially means the company is providing Exadata as a Service. The Oracle Cloud infrastructure is a comprehensive set of integrated, subscription-based services that let b...

08/18/2017

What's Up With Google Docs

E-commerceTimes News What's Up With Google Docs - Google on Wednesday introduced a number of collaborative feat... https://t.co/Upt3LKb4a2

Google on Wednesday introduced a number of collaborative features to its office productivity tools. The latest versions of Google Docs, Sheets and Slides will include new editing functionality that will enable office teams to work together in real time on the most up-to-date versions of their files....

08/17/2017

The War Room: Experiential Security Planning

E-commerceTimes News The War Room: Experiential Security Planning https://t.co/3jOPceMQOi

Ask any security practitioner about ransomware nowadays, and chances are good you'll get an earful. Recent outbreaks like Petya and WannaCry have left organizations around the world reeling, and statistics show that ransomware is on the rise. For example, 62 percent of participants surveyed for ISAC...

08/10/2017

Most Businesses Want Agility but Few Have It

E-commerceTimes News Most Businesses Want Agility but Few Have It https://t.co/2q60c3SkZL

Although many organizations recognize that agility enables better responses to changing business conditions, few have taken the necessary steps to reach that goal, a new study from CA Technologies suggests. Although two-thirds of the respondents to the firm's recent survey saw value in business agil...

08/08/2017

It's a Whole New World With Alexa

E-commerceTimes News It's a Whole New World With Alexa - Voice computing is replacing the graphical user interf... https://t.co/v8uN9slOP4

Voice computing is replacing the graphical user interface, Shawn DuBravac, chief economist of the Consumer Technology Association, said early this year at CES. Digital assistants will be integrated into many household objects, he noted. About 5 million voice-activated digital voice products had been...

08/05/2017

Excellent Customer Service Requires Emotional Intelligence

E-commerceTimes News Excellent Customer Service Requires Emotional Intelligence https://t.co/0w0yJ2nY9T

Staff engagement is a key component in a telco's ability to positively impact customers, according to InMoment. The company recently conducted a survey of 11,000 North American customers of Internet, mobile and TV services and found that telecommunications companies' customers just plain hate them.…

08/04/2017

Businesses Leverage Instagram Stories to New Heights

E-commerceTimes News Businesses Leverage Instagram Stories to New Heights https://t.co/cjd9HYGCHR

Instagram's Stories feature, which launched one year ago, has achieved widespread engagement among businesses that want to raise their brand awareness and expand their e-commerce pe*******on, the company said. The tool, launched in August 2016, allows users to create digital slide shows out of photo...

08/03/2017

Comcast, Google Can Publish Users' Email Contents

E-commerceTimes News Comcast, Google Can Publish Users' Email Contents https://t.co/6NwBS1GrIU

Comcast's Terms of Service for its Xfinity Internet service gives it, its agents, suppliers and affiliates the right to "reproduce, publish, distribute and display" the content worldwide. It also lets third parties copy, republish or distribute material posted or transmitted using Xfinity Internet.…

08/02/2017

New Service Promises Help Winning Government Contracts

E-commerceTimes News New Service Promises Help Winning Government Contracts https://t.co/LbyDD6gH9J

Onvia on Tuesday launched a new service for companies selling to the public sector. The service provides access to detailed materials associated with a given solicitation, including all submitted proposals, the awarded bid, the final contract, and the agency's scoring criteria. Onvia "helps clients…

08/01/2017

InsideView Launches Expert Consulting Service for B2B Marketers

E-commerceTimes News InsideView Launches Expert Consulting Service for B2B Marketers https://t.co/5yGhXFWaTG

InsideView has announced a consulting service to help B2B marketers implement account-based marketing. Expert Service, the first in the firm's planned series of InsideView Expert Services, delivers target market analytics and helps customers build a view of their total addressable market using a dat...

07/30/2017

Amazon's B2B Business Blows Past 1M Customer Mark

E-commerceTimes News Amazon's B2B Business Blows Past 1M Customer Mark https://t.co/AxmsVcp4i6

Amazon Business, launched in April 2015, this week announced that it had reached the 1 million customer milestone. "This is rapid growth," said Ray Wang, principal analyst at Constellation Research. It's attributable in part to a crossover effect from the large number of B2C customers Amazon has, he...

07/29/2017

Russian Head of $4B Bitcoin Exchange Charged in Massive Money Laundering Scheme

E-commerceTimes News Russian Head of $4B Bitcoin Exchange Charged in Massive Money Laundering Scheme https://t.co/xsdZwr95Dd

A grand jury in the Northern District of California indicted a Russian man for running a massive money laundering operation through the BTC-e bitcoin exchange, a group of federal officials announced Wednesday. The exchange allegedly received up to $4 billion in proceeds from various criminal activit...

07/28/2017

Changing B2B Marketplace Calls for New Sales Skills

E-commerceTimes News Changing B2B Marketplace Calls for New Sales Skills https://t.co/kRoJsm4z5F

There are three key moments when salespeople can maximize the value in a customer relationship instead of allowing it to leak out, according to Corporate Visions, which announced a new sales skills program on Thursday. Those three turning points occur during deal negotiations, when securing customer...

07/26/2017

Zoho Launches All-in-One Business Suite for SMBs

E-commerceTimes News Zoho Launches All-in-One Business Suite for SMBs https://t.co/ueRG9PYVhz

Zoho has launched Zoho One, an all-in-one business suite comprised of more than 35 integrated Web applications and an equal number of mobile apps. The suite offers single sign-on with centralized administration and provisioning. Each user has one secure account and access to the entire suite. An adm...

07/25/2017

t.co

E-commerceTimes News Elon Musk: Luddite? - It's hard to believe that the founder of Tesla Motors and SpaceX cou... https://t.co/Nwgyh79f4g

07/21/2017

3 Keys to Customer Satisfaction: Speed, Efficiency, Knowledge

E-commerceTimes News 3 Keys to Customer Satisfaction: Speed, Efficiency, Knowledge https://t.co/wN5ucY13XC

Customers want fast service or support from knowledgeable people where, when and how they prefer to receive it, based on results of a study the CMO Council published Tuesday. Together with SAP Hybris, the CMO Council last year conducted an online survey of 2,000 respondents, equally divided between…

07/20/2017

A New Service Model

E-commerceTimes News A New Service Model - People concerned about automation killing jobs might look at Helpshi... https://t.co/CRCEPcnjQE

People concerned about automation killing jobs might look at Helpshift's strategy and similar automation approaches. By enabling businesses to build help or support into mobile apps, these new models are re-inventing support to get the job done. Sure, they provide automated support in lieu of conven...

07/19/2017

Major Tech Firms Pressure FCC to Stay the Net Neutrality Course

E-commerceTimes News Major Tech Firms Pressure FCC to Stay the Net Neutrality Course https://t.co/nLBZ8UMibj

The Internet Association, which represents 40 leading technology companies -- including Facebook, Google, Amazon and others -- on Monday filed comments with the FCC, urging it to maintain Net neutrality regulations enacted during the Obama administration. The rules have created a level playing field...

07/18/2017

Free AI Chatbot Goes to Bat for Beleaguered Consumers

E-commerceTimes News Free AI Chatbot Goes to Bat for Beleaguered Consumers https://t.co/4qLwTXJv7g

DoNotPay, an AI-based chatbot app created to help fight parking tickets in the UK, now addresses roughly 1,000 consumer concerns and is available throughout the U.S. as well as across the pond. The app's creator, Stanford student Joshua Browder, announced the expansion last week. Powered by IBM Wats...

07/14/2017

Amazon's Echo Show: The Future Is Here

E-commerceTimes News Amazon's Echo Show: The Future Is Here - Amazon recently launched its Echo Show, which bri... https://t.co/f0Eus7S4m4

Amazon recently launched its Echo Show, which brings a visual screen to its smart speaker device. I wonder whether we're ready to start living in what seems like a futuristic Star Trek world. The Echo Show experience is sort of like having a laptop sitting on your table -- one that uses AI,...