With the dramatic increase in the financial volatility in the past couple of weeks, it appears that the culmination of the Cloud Summit last week could not have been scheduled at a more appropriate time. A good summary of the details, as well as a good quote from Zebra Jeff accompanied by particularly "Presidential" photo of Zebra Jeff (also at left), can be found here at the Collaboration 2.0 blog, authored by Oliver Marks.
On a related note, here are the results from our Cloud Computing survey:
1. Cloud computing will impact your sales model.
-Vast 12.5% -Significant 50% -Moderate 12.5% -Slight 0.0% -Zero 25%
2. Cloud computing necessitates that you articulate a predictive value proposition as a major component of your sales methodology.
-Agree 75% -Disagree 25%
3. In your opinion what are the compelling business reasons for companies to move to cloud-based solutions? (check all that apply)
-Costs less than comparable traditional or SaaS (software as a service) solutions 50% -Noninvasive implementation 75% -Reliability - works the first time, every time 37.5% -Allows you to sell your main product as well as your already proven expertise/methodology for selling those products 37.5%
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