Gifts for Garden Centres features Jim Shaw's, General Manager Europe at Acquia, advice for driving sales and improving customer engagement in the long term.
Jim Shaw discusses consumers view websites as the "front door" to their online shopping experience, and their effective design has been a rich topic of debate for years.
Jim Shaw, Acquia's General Manager - Europe, urges public sector organisations to recognise the huge savings to be made by supporting the developer community to create cost-effective, Open Source websites.
Acquia's Jim Shaw discusses the cloud and that today’s web applications face very real challenges to deployment. Websites are incredibly content rich, highly dynamic, and subject to massive swings in load because of anything from content gone viral to the death of a celebrity.
SaaS vendors are looking to lock customers in to long term contracts with no exit strategy, says Jim Shaw, who argues that a new model, OpenSaas, could be the answer.
One of cloud’s best kept secrets is the lack of portability for applications delivered using the Software as a Service (SaaS) model. Many resellers help companies sign up for SaaS applications with the belief that it'll be easy for them to migrate to another if they need to. But that runs against the plans of the SaaS vendors, who look for long-term agreements to lock customers in by providing no exit strategy. A new model, called OpenSaas, is the answer.
I posted a news blog earlier this month concerning some high profile adoption of the Drupal open source Content Management System (CMS) -- or to use Drupal's preferred description, "The free and open source software package for publishing, managing and organising a variety of content on a website."
With Drupalcon London coming up this August and with the interest that story received I feel it is justified if we revisit the topic with some comment from the commercially-backed spiral arm of the Drupal galaxy.
... and the name you are looking for here is Acquia.
Social business is no longer a nice to have, but is now a business imperative to improve customer communication and engagement, build loyal partner networks and improve internal collaboration.
We have been blogging, tweeting, connecting and collaborating online for years, but now it’s not just for personal use. The growth in social business can be measured by the amount being spent on software solutions purchased to help enterprises meet their social business strategies. According to Gartner, spending on social software to support sales, marketing, product development and customer service will exceed $1 billion worldwide in 2013.