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Cornerstone Names New Chief Product Officer

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Awatramani has previously served at such companies as Adobe, Marketo, Oracle, and Siebel, and was most recently Head of Product and GTM at Adobe; he had joined Adobe after the company acquired Marketo in 2018. Cornerstone said that Awatramani will lead its product strategy, management, and design. READ MORE>>.

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6 Keys To Thriving In This New Era Of Remote Services

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Unless you represent one of the huge brands in the services arena, such as Accenture or Oracle , clients today want to hear why you personally are the right answer for them. Every business service, from logo design to tax preparation, means something different to business owners in different stages of growth.

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9 Transaction Models Shape Your Customer Experience

Startup Professionals Musings

If the shopping process, delivery, and support experiences are not designed-in and delivered consistently, no after-the-fact effort or product feature can compensate for the lack of it. The specifics and need for an overall service experience design were driven home to me in a new book, “ Woo, Wow, and Win ,” by Thomas A.

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Puking On The Emotional Startup Rollercoaster

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Approximately a year later, the company’s revenues had grown significantly and there were no chest bumps after we finalized a multiple six-figure sale to Oracle. Image Credit: Roller Coaster designed by Luis Prado from the Noun Project. after closing a $10,000 deal. For What The Bell Tolls. Share and Enjoy.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP.

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How Roambi Is Making Mobile Work For The Enterprise, with Quinton Alsbury

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Quinton Alsbury: The way the application is designed is fairly agnostic to any particular vertical or operation inside a company. The visualizations themselves are designed around data navigation, and the generic concepts and analytics processes that we know people are doing inside companies. How do customers use your product?

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Interview with John Hanna, FunnelSource

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I'd used every CRM tool out there--Oracle, Siebel, PeopleSoft--you name it, I've used it. I don't know if you're familiar with LucidEra, a company in this area which shut down earlier this year, but we're different in that their application is designed for five executives in a company. They had to pull the plug. Speaking of Force.

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