article thumbnail

Interview with John Hanna, FunnelSource

socalTECH

I'd used every CRM tool out there--Oracle, Siebel, PeopleSoft--you name it, I've used it. You can go from the CEO, all the way to the VP, to the director, to the rep, to the opportunity--all in a single screen--to understand exactly what is happening with the health of your pipeline. It's always in your face, and always on screen.

Oracle 145
article thumbnail

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

socalTECH

We realized that what Apple had done, was introduce a completely new way of interacting with computing devices, using touch, a rich, animated UI, and the size of the screen. That data can come from an existing business intelligence system, like SAP, Oracle, IBM, or Salesforce.com. Or, it can come directly out of a database.

Mobile 170
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How Event Farm Is Making Events A Part Of Your Sales Funnel

SoCal Tech Calendar

If you look at the marketing cloud, at companies like Salesforce, Oracle, and Adobe, they are providing the consumer marketing cloud. We then have applications, running on tablets and screens, where you can interact. You'll walk up, tap on a screen, and it would automatically show a men's line that they are showcasing.

Sales 100
article thumbnail

The Coming Shift in Enterprise Software

Both Sides of the Table

He spent nearly five years at each of Salesforce.com and Oracle and was an Area VP at Salesforce leading sales efforts at some of the largest clients that Salesforce.com has. The idea that your i/o must be a computer log-in screen or even a mobile app is antiquated in a world in which we increasingly like to message either 1–1 or in groups.

Software 105
article thumbnail

What Makes an Entrepreneur? (1/11) – Tenacity

Both Sides of the Table

As an entrepreneur people who aren’t going to respond to you and it’s your responsibility to politely and assertively stay on people’s radar screen. You no longer work for Google, Oracle, Salesforce.com or McKinsey where everybody calls you back.

article thumbnail

Why Early-Stage VCs Should Be Careful About Intros from Bankers

Both Sides of the Table

I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow.

Startup 361
article thumbnail

Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

When I started my first company in 1999 we spent more than $2 million on technology infrastructure including Sun servers & Solaris operating system, Oracle databases, EMC storage, load balancers, app servers, back-up devices, disk mirrors and on and on. It’s the input screens where we enter data or search requests.

Startup 343