During ZohoDay26, I had the absolute pleasure of sitting down and talking CRM with Julie Lloyd from Acme Brick in beautiful Austin, Texas,. Naturally, the topic of the day was Acme Brick’s fascinating journey into the Zoho ecosystem.
As a CRM analyst and consultant, I've seen countless software deplo...
ZohoDay 2026 is in the books, and it has again been an intense two days of information and discussions, starting off with some impressive statistics. In time for its 30th anniversary, Zoho crossed the milestones of one million paying customers and an eye watering 150 million users. All this whi...
For the longest time, companies have been trapped by enterprise software vendors.
First by shrink-wrapped software packages.
Then by SaaS offerings.
Both situations led to what one even in a SaaS world can call shelfware – although these days the shelf is a virtual one instead of a physical one. Buyers...
CRM at its very origin, was a strategy. With the advent of systems that support the execution of this strategy, the term more and more got shifted to describe a system. This shift can get seen in the words of CRM GodfatherPaul Greenberg. His pre-2009 def...
These days, we are drowning in conflicting information about the value of generative and/or agentic AI. I, myself am researching for good studies that dive into the ROI that is generated by this technology, with limited success. Most information is anecdotal, or comes from success stories, which can...
