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July 27, 2009

Gadgets go native - now in 21 languages




One of the original design principles of the CRM gadgets for Sales, was accessibility. Of course we are working to ensure the big 'A' of Accessibility - but I'm speaking here about being able to access and use software on "MY" terms. This means, from the user's perspective - my choice of operating system, my current network conditions, my style and in my language. From the business' perspective - accessibility means - low cost to acquire, little impact on my current business operations and no degradation of IT operations.

In version 1 we supported Linux, Mac and Windows, had on/offline support baked in and allowed you the user to change the style of the gadget with ease. From a business perspective we made the gadgets FREE - and supported any version of Siebel CRM and Oracle CRM OnDemand (our SaaS based offering). For on premise deployments - there were no upgrades or downtime associated with deploying the gadgets.


Today we are pleased to announce the release of the CRM Gadgets for Sales 1.0.5. This release has support for the following 21 languages:

Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Brazilian, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Chinese and Chinese Taiwan.


You can download the gadgets here (Metalink).

They are still free. 有乐趣!

July 30, 2009

The Lean Startup (talk by Eric Ries)


The Lean Start up








Great presentation - but don't just think the advice is good for startups - big business can learn a lot from this as well...

The Lean Startup at Web 2.0 Expo

If you are in software development - spend the time to go through this. Ask yourself the question whether you are Case #1 or Case #2 ? Think agile is for start ups? Really? Hmmm... I wonder what they said about the Waterfall software development model when that was first being introduced to business...

Release early and often.

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