Posts Tagged ‘business software’

“Extra! Extra! Read all about it!”-Salesforce.com and now Microsoft take on Woosabi

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Greenbaum/?p=163

April 18th, 2008 ……Microsoft OnLine CRM …Hunts Salesforce.com………..And Woosabi!! (this is not really in the ZDnet/Microsoft article…but just couldn’t resist it!…Tony@woosabi .com)

“The official GA release of Microsoft’s CRM Online offering is next week, and with it comes a new chapter in the life of Salesforce.com. To date Salesforce.com has lacked a major competitor that could be seen as a worthy opponent in terms of overall size, price, functionality, and marketing chops…Now there’s Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online. And the challenges for Salesforce.com can now begin. The goals of CRM Online are to match or beat Salesforce.com in feature/functionality, absolutely beat it in price, and with the combined power of the Microsoft brand and the ubiquitousness of the Outlook user base, seriously challenge Benioff’s hype machine on the marketing side. And they definitely have a chance at succeeding in all three…….”

We at Woosabi wish both salesforce.com and microsoft dynamics well (I was told to say that bit…..!) in their quest to battle it out in the “big money” PR + Marketing arena. However, to you Small Businesses (SME) and New Start Ups (NSU) that look beneath the “PR Headlines” there are other more affordable, more user-friendly, more SME/NSU focused and less hyped CRM systems out there to help maintain and grow your customers and businesses.

When is a story, a story? (Or is it all PR?)

Friday, February 29th, 2008

www.woosabi.com was given a boost yesterday (in my humble opinion) when an article appeared by sion.barry@mediawales.co.uk in the Western Mail (South Wales, UK edition) highlighting the potential for the “Right” Business Management products for SMEs; it also told of  the success of a software firm www.onsho.co.uk (based in South Wales). Onsho provide bespoke-software management solutions to SMEs and their target growth market is SMEs in Wales; the company has been going a couple of years and has just hit £1million turn over (blinking well done you lot!!.[ writer attempts to hide his envy at this point!!]). However, where is the Public Interest Story here? Well done for hitting a million in 2 years but what is the real intention of this “story”? It could be argued, and it is only my “devil’s advocate” approach here (so don’t get all upset anyone in buisness), that the aim of the article is to get the company’s name higher up in the public profile league…………damn!!…it’s no good (here hit comes…an out-pouring of jealousy + envy…can’t hold it back…!!!)….well done Onsho in getting this profile….and the product seems right for the besp[oke market…..but next time it would be great to learn more about features and benefits of the product/service and less about the Millions….I can’t stand the envy-stress!! ..But well done anyway (no I really mean it…I do…honestly….)