February 2010 - Posts

• Crystal Reports and Bar Graphs

  Building a simple bar graph. Are you familiar with, or have you ever tried, building a graph with Crystal Reports? This topic came up in a recent blog by George Jensen , below are a couple of paragraphs: "I have done very little on graphs. Honestly, I Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 24, 2010 2:53 PM by Brianna Tinjum | 0 Comments

• Keep it Simple

  Avoid feature overload. I'm pretty sure that we have all purchased products that have way more features then we will ever need. My digital camera is a perfect example of this, I use maybe 5 features of the 1,000's that are available to me because I'm Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 23, 2010 2:15 PM by Brianna Tinjum | 0 Comments

• Did Your Hear That? It's Your Customer.

  Listening and taking action. In a perfect world we listen to what our customers need/want and then respond accordingly. Unfortunately, the world isn't perfect. Below are a couple paragraphs from an article by Jessica Tsai about a recent study performed Read More... Posted Thursday, February 18, 2010 10:49 AM by Brianna Tinjum | 0 Comments

• Outlook Becoming Social

  Connected to LinkedIn, Facebook and MySpace next? Loading I find this a bit weird, but hey, seems everything is going social now and why not Microsoft Outlook? Most of us use Outlook as our email client because of the integration with SalesLogix and now Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 17, 2010 2:52 PM by Brianna Tinjum | 0 Comments

• Hear Yes More Often

  Improving your "yes" rate. The majority of the time we would rather hear yes then no. Have you ever thought about how you can influence how often you receive yes for an answer? Below are a few paragraphs from an article by Arlene Johnson that explores Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 16, 2010 2:49 PM by Brianna Tinjum | 0 Comments

• Crystal Reports - Shading the Background Color

  Quick and easy. Most SalesLogix users also use Crystal Reports, and if you know what you are doing there are many types of reports that you can build. Below are a couple paragraphs from a blog by George Jensen with instructions for how to shade the background Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 10, 2010 2:14 PM by Brianna Tinjum | 0 Comments

• Migrating to the Cloud

  And the organizational changes that will follow. Ok, so I'm still on the whole cloud computing thing. I can't help it, it's everywhere! That said, have you ever thought of the impact cloud computing will have as more and more organizations migrate technology Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 09, 2010 2:14 PM by Brianna Tinjum | 0 Comments

• Clouds: Public or Private

  The technology world divided. As many of you know, Sage is beginning to offer SalesLogix in the cloud. Currently the offer is to limited customers and partners, but soon it will be available to the general public. Sage is not the only company with an Read More... Posted Thursday, February 04, 2010 2:29 PM by Brianna Tinjum | 0 Comments

• Get More Out of Your Training Sessions

  Hint: Be engaging, not boring. Whether you are training your staff to use a new customization in SalesLogix Windows client, to use new features in SalesLogix Web, or are training your staff on something totally unrelated to SalesLogix, it is important Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 02, 2010 2:52 PM by Brianna Tinjum | 0 Comments