, the San Francisco-based e-auction titan, announced their next big step into the future: image recognition capabilities will now be available via their mobile app.
Much like Google’s Goggles app, shoppers can now snap photos of items they covet – such as a cute dress or a pair of slippers in a shop window, and eBay will search for the exact or similar items for sale on their site. This means shoppers with a smartphone and a little patience no longer have to wait until they get back to their PC or laptop to compare prices.
Speaking in San Francisco Wednesday, eBay CEO John Donahoe said the company is planning to have the feature available by the end of this year.
It’s not clear yet, however, which of eBay’s apps will get the new feature. eBay isn’t revealing yet whether the image-recognition package will work on all items or just certain things.
One things for sure: my eBay addiction just got worse.
Nice knowin' ya, crazed mob of shoppers!
Stay tuned to get more info about this awesome new development, plus many more, by clicking here!
SugarCRM announced it has extended the capabilities of its mobile apps, deepened its relationship with IBM, and acquired iExtensions CRM.
SugarCRM has extended the capabilities of its social customer relationship management (CRM) software through new integration with applications from a bevy of industry heavyweights — including expansion of the company’s partnership with IBM, as well as SugarCRM’s acquisition of iExtensions CRM from iEnterprises, adding BlackBerry and Droid Mobile applications to its list of offerings. The announcements were made during the annual SugarCon conference last week.
President and CEO Jim Ward was interviewed about Sugar’s newest developments.
BrainSell was given the MVP and 2x 2010 awards at SugarCon 2011, for going above and beyond Sugar’s expectations and more than doubling their business in 2010. Read about it here.
To know more about Sugar’s latest developments and read the entire interview with Jim Ward, click here!
Not sure if you know it, but SalesLogix has a Cloud edition now! It boasts a greatly improved interface, affordable, flexible pricing and a nice mobile application that is fully customizable.
And you can try it for 30 days.
You can still OWN SalesLogix, which makes for a sweet ROI. But if you’re into SaaS, check it out.
SalesLogix Cloud runs $65 per user per month (and the cost decreases with volume), and that comes with LOTS of data storage.
Recently, we’ve had prospects asking if SugarCRM can send text messages. “Ummmm Maybe,” was my response. It’s easy enough to check, I just went to Sugar Exchange and typed in SMS. Sure enough, there are two apps that allow users to text from Sugar.
“And why would you want to do this?” I asked the prospect. They organize poll workers at local elections and if there’s a storm or a change in meeting time, a text would be much more effective than an email, as most of the workers don’t have smart phones with email access. Makes sense.
From the Exchange listing… iZeno SMS module for SugarCRM allow users to send SMS to leads,contacts and accounts from detail view and list view manually or get SMS to be sent out to recipients based on the workflow conditions.
That’s what we love about open source, it allows for 3rd party developers to solve problems!
Microsoft CRM is the new kid on the CRM block, debuting in 2003 and Sage SalesLogix has been a leader in the market for 13 years. There are differences across the board in both applications. For many users, it’s a matter of look and feel. Others are more concerned with functionality.
Some of the larger differences in the two solutions are user adoption, ease of use, architecture, TCO and partner support.
These points and more are addressed in BrainSell’s latest White Paper.
Big development! Sugar has received overwhelming requests for their new iPhone app to work with Sugar Pro. They’ve revised the app to work with both Pro and Enterprise.
Apple has inspired a lot of people lately. Their much hyped release of the iPad has made many people rethink the way they do business. One of those people is Mike Ladd, President & CEO of Euchner-USA.
SalesLogix account details on the iPad
Euchner makes safety switches and automation systems for a variety of industries. Ladd’s salespeople are constantly traveling, so entering notes in a CRM system is imperative to track all of those on site visits. Ladd understands the value of CRM, and he has been disappointed with user adoption. He hopes to change all of that with SalesLogix Web on the iPad.
“There is a tremendous amount of good information in SalesLogix,” said Ladd. However, Euchner has been using SalesLogix LAN version. His salespeople are less inclined to use CRM on the road since SalesLogix can only be accessed through a cumbersome laptop.
“Their notes aren’t good because they save them up for the end of the week,” said Ladd. “They take notes on the back of a business card and then try to replicate them in SalesLogix. A lot gets left out.”
Those days will soon be over. SalesLogix has a few different deployment options now; SAAS, Web and LAN. Euchner is deploying SalesLogix Web in a few weeks. Their LAN instance will now be accessible through a unique URL.
Ladd has had an iPad for a while now and he’s convinced that SalesLogix on the iPad will encourage his sales team to take notes when they’re on site. Ladd expects SalesLogix on the iPad will generate better reporting, streamline the sales process better and save a tremendous amount of time.
“The value of SalesLogix is built for this,” said Ladd about the iPad. “My sales people can look at history notes in SalesLogix and they’ll be better prepared. The iPad is fun to use, and if it’s fun, people will use it more.”
Sage has a mobile strategy and it’s pretty great - Here’s a peek at the Accpac interface, due for release when Accpac v6 comes out this December.
Mobile phones like the iPhone allow you to run web sites in the same manner you run native applications. So you can add an icon to the phone’s home page and then run your web based application.
Sage is working on the “Accpac Mobile Desktop” to launch various data portlets This lets a user see various dashboards in real time from their phone.
Being ever so timely, SugarCRM announced their iPad application at SugarCon this past April. As a devoted Apple fanatic, I have to say, this adds a major cool-factor to Sugar.
The app is fully customizable and it looks pretty ridiculous.
Some big highlights…
Quick view display: shows the most urgent opportunities, important contacts, and upcoming meetings.
Customizable modules screen:Users can drag-and-drop their favorite SugarCRM modules to easily organize the application according to their needs.
Data synchronization:Keep contacts and other information synced between the iPad and the cloud.
Easy drill-down: Quickly access important customer information that is most relevant while on-the-road.
The iPad is awesome, but let’s not forget it’s little brother, iPhone, which is outfitted with similar functionality.
Sugar’s CEO Larry Augustine spoke about the new release at Sugarcon…
“We’re pleased to announce a native application of Sugar on the iPad,” noted Larry Augustin, CEO, SugarCRM. “The ultra-portability and groundbreaking iPad user experience that is made possible for us as a web-based business by Appcelerator fits perfectly with the extensible SugarCRM architecture that can scale across multiple platforms. We believe that our mobile workforce customers will benefit greatly from the enhanced capabilities that this new platform offers.”
Overall, it looks like a very handy little piece of technology.
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