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	<title>Steve Sacks &#187; SaaS</title>
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	<description>Technology Executive, Advisor, Entrepreneur, Consultant</description>
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		<title>Coupa coverage on Forbes.com</title>
		<link>http://www.stevesacks.com.au/2010/12/coupa-on-forbes-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 06:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://blogs.forbes.com/davidcarr/2010/12/17/taking-the-amazon-com-approach/#more-108
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		<title>Business Process in the Cloud</title>
		<link>http://www.stevesacks.com.au/2010/02/business-process-in-the-cloud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Salesforce.com is rolling out their Spring &#8216;10 release that includes a whole variety of new capability, as per usual.  One in particular has caught my interest &#8211; the Process Visualiser.   This product enables you to visually represent and map your business process components ranging from forms to activities to approvals to design and simulate the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In The Cloud</title>
		<link>http://www.stevesacks.com.au/2009/11/in-the-cloud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In The Cloud is my new company &#8211; we focus on helping enterprises increase agility and reduce costs through the deployment of software-as-a-service and cloud based applications.  Initially we are providing implementation and development services with Salesforce.com, as well as working with organisations to identify components in their application architecture that may suit development or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cross-Channel Retail</title>
		<link>http://www.stevesacks.com.au/2009/08/cross-channel-retail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SaaS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-commerice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sales effectiveness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have been working with the team at LoyaltyTech, a company that delivers business and technology solutions in the demand chain &#8211; e-commerce, loyalty programs, customer analytics, and social network integration &#8211; paticularly in multi-channel retail environments.    Australian retailers have lagged behind North America and Europe in their adoption of these strategies.   DTDigital recently posted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Signatures and Electronic Vaulting</title>
		<link>http://www.stevesacks.com.au/2009/08/digital-signatures-and-electronic-vaulting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Digital Signatures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OnDemand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service Cloud]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently started working with eOriginal, a digital signature and vault solution that has had great success in North America, particularly in consumer lending but also in government, health and transport/logistics.  This sort of product offfers some fantastic benefits for companies that generate significant numbers of agreements or other documents requiring signature.  In addition to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internet Chat &#8211; Why is Australia behind in adoption?</title>
		<link>http://www.stevesacks.com.au/2009/05/internet-chat-why-is-australia-behind-in-adoption/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevesacks.com.au/2009/05/internet-chat-why-is-australia-behind-in-adoption/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 09:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At dSales we have been looking a lot at web chat technologies and their application as another sales and service channel &#8211; LivePerson is a particularly successful provider that we have been working with especially because of their integration with salesforce.com.   It seems that this chat has not really caught in in Australia like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CRM and Social Media</title>
		<link>http://www.stevesacks.com.au/2009/05/crm-and-social-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 08:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently saw salesforce.com&#8217;s presentation on the Service Cloud, which included discussion of integration with Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.  The concept of monitoring what your customer base is saying about you in the cloud and reacting appropriately is  getting a lot of attention at the moment.
Certainly the ability to find out more about your customer contacts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Workday &#8211; ERP and HCM On-Demand</title>
		<link>http://www.stevesacks.com.au/2009/05/workday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevesacks.com.au/2009/05/workday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 22:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevesacks.com.au/?p=209</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, I started a consulting business providing services to implement large accounting, HR and manufacturing systems, later called ERP.  We started the business focussing on Oracle Applications, and then, when PeopleSoft came to Australia we signed up as their first implementation partner here.  PeopleSoft was started by Dave Duffield, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Multi tenancy for SaaS applications</title>
		<link>http://www.stevesacks.com.au/2009/04/multi-tenancy-for-saas-applications/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevesacks.com.au/2009/04/multi-tenancy-for-saas-applications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SaaS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud Computing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I read an interesting post on the SmothSpan blog about the relative importance of multi-tenant architecture given the ability for cloud scaling.
It also references the Atlassian blog post from today which is really interesting as it makes the case for single tenancy.
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		<title>Cloud Computing = Mainframe Time Share?</title>
		<link>http://www.stevesacks.com.au/2009/03/cloud-computing-mainframe-time-share/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevesacks.com.au/2009/03/cloud-computing-mainframe-time-share/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SaaS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest trend in application delivery is  bit like back to the future &#8211; once upon a time, companies that wanted computer processing power used time share or bureau services to access part of a mainframe&#8217;s processing power unless they could afford the millions of dollars in capital investment required to buy their own mainframe.    [...]]]></description>
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