Cloud-Based Application Platform and PaaS by LongJump

Steven Burke of ChannelWeb summarized the major topic at this year’s XChange Tech Innovators conference in Las Vegas. Can you guess? Cloud. Specifically how can the solution provider channel leverage the Cloud as part of their suite of product and service offerings.
Says Burke:
“It’s not too early to call 2010 as the year of the cloud [...]

Be sure to visit our website to read about how American Mitigation Law Group, a loan modification company in Del Mar, California is helping homeowners keep their homes during the mortgage crisis. We spoke with Nick Hasselwander at AMLG about how they are using the LongJump platform and CRM to build a complete mitigation workflow [...]

VAR Program Enables Resellers, Solution Providers and Managed Service Providers to Profit from Recurring Revenues by Delivering Cloud-Based Applications
GARTNER SYMPOSIUM/ITxpo, Orlando, FL, October 19, 2009 – LongJump, a leading provider of software that powers Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), today announced a value added reseller (VAR) program for its LongJump Cloud Applications Platform from the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo. LongJump’s [...]

Tracking some of the buzz from our licensable SaaS platform announcement.
From ComputerWorld’s Mark Everett Hall (which includes an interview with LongJump customer NES’s CTO Izak Joubert)…

Get cloud tools, but forget the cloud
“(Joubert) wanted an application platform that let him quickly create new services without having to update complex database schemas. Joubert evaluated Force.com, App Engine [...]

When selecting business software and applications, it’s important to consider scale. Why is one application better than another for a given problem?

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Recently, there was a news report on how a lot of families are dealing with the (possible) recession by growing their own fruits and vegetables. Makes perfect sense. It cuts down on expensive gas, its self-replenishing, and you can grow what you need. It also is tasty and satisifying. What’s the point?
There is a term in [...]

Before CRMs, contact managers were the norm. They sat like an unattached rolodex on the sales rep’s computer, usually built as a part of their email client. But contact managers put too much sales information on an island, making sharing and management of customer information difficult. They also significantly put your data at risk. A hard [...]

Vator.tv’s Bambi Francisco had a followup interview with CEO Pankaj Malviya and how LongJump was able to reach a point of self-sufficiency and profitability without backing from any venture capital firms.

Pankaj states that when you are bootstrapping on your own, the key is working every customer relationship to its full potential so you can build revenue [...]

Email marketing campaigns can be one of the most cost-effective campaigns you can employ to both drive new business, as well as keep you top-of-mind with your customers. That’s because while educating your customers takes more effort than simple branding, an educated customer is also more likely to spend more and spend it with the [...]

When you are initially starting your business, sales teams can be relied on to keep their customers’ contact and account information in their own way with little interaction with the rest of the business. It’s not uncommon to maintain your customer list in Excel and use Outlook to drive business activities. Or a worst case [...]