Intuit Enhances QuickBase CRM-as-a-Service Entry

With more than one-third of the Fortune 100 tapping QuickBase for CRM, sales management and project management, Intuit thinks it has a winner on its hands.
Salesforce.com isn’t the only game in town when it comes to CRM-as-a-service. In a certain sense, it isn’t even the oldest. The former Siebel Systems Inc. launched its own ASP-oriented […]

New Intuit QuickBase Version Enables Custom Workgroup Applications With Less Work

QuickBase Adds Dynamic Forms, New Charting and Packaged Application Updates
QuickBase, a division of Intuit Inc., announced improvements that make configuring and using QuickBase applications faster and easier than other software alternatives. QuickBase combines workflow, data, communication management functions in a flexible, Web-based solution that provides a wide array of powerful business management applications.
“QuickBase […]

SaaS Moves From Niche To Disruptive Technology

Software-as-a-service applications from Google, Yahoo, and Salesforce.com are driving change in architecture, appearance and business model of enterprise applications, turning the sector from a niche into a multi-billion dollar market. But the business model isn’t without its challenges.
Calling the trend a “disruptive phenomenon,” Merrill Lynch & Co. analyst Kash Rangan said in a report released […]

Intuit’s upgraded QuickBase hastens competition with Microsoft, Google

New features include dynamic forms, dashboards and compatibility with Microsoft Project
June 20, 2006 (Computerworld) — Intuit Inc. announced today that it’s girding its QuickBase Web-hosted collaboration software to compete with offerings from Microsoft Corp. and software-as-a-service start-ups by adding new features such as easy-to-build dynamic forms and dashboards and compatibility with Microsoft Project management software.
Best-known […]

Squeezing the Best Value out of CRM, Part 2

One mistake too many companies make is to reserve the majority of a project’s budget for license fees and implementation. When that happens, other expenditures — such as support for new users, training and changing the use of a system to meet new corporate needs — tend to be
Choosing the right system in the first […]