Does anyone remember when the mainstream didn't know what a blog was? Blogging was confined to uber geeks that attended the SXSW Interactive Festival (which I proudly attend religiously). Then, slowly the blogging virus crept up on the rest of the...

Something I've learned recently in business is no matter what product or service you may be selling, people will have their own perception of what it does and how it works. I recently saw a girl try to work an iPod that has never owned one. It was...

Now on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, Pervasive DataCloud Delivers Data Quality, Matching, Connectivity and Transformation Services AUSTIN, Texas – October 27, 2009 - Pervasive Software® Inc. (NASDAQ: PVSW ), a global value leader in data integration...

I read an article by Jay N. Nisberg ( jaynisberg@snet.net ) while on a recent flight. Among other things, he said as a business leader it is your job to study and analyze business problems. He also implied that to perform the in-depth analysis required...

What? No Poll? I have heard from several of you that while they found the weekly polls entertaining they were more interested in what we are doing. As you all know, for the last 18 months we ( Pervasive DataSolutions ) have been focused on delivering...

I am impressed and have new hope for the world today. First, this was the most participation I have had yet in a survey. Admittedly, I ran it longer than many of them, but the responses were an order of magnitude higher. Secondly, the results were amazing...

Now that we are on a two week schedule I get a few more responses to the survey. I do not think 50 to 60 responses constitute a statistically significant sample, but it does give an indication that is worth noting. I asked you how you invoice you customers...

I wanted to know how many of you used business apps from your phone. I found out! 66%, that's how many! That's a lot of you. I am actually not that surprised. I write a weekly blog on my exploits to become software independent. This week my theme...

This week I asked if you were interested in statistics as they related to Twitter. I should have asked if everyone answering the emails were breathing, the results would have been the same, 100%. Everyone seems to be interested in Twitter. But even more...

First of all, sorry for the late post, the holiday and 140TC wreaked havoc with your regularly scheduled programming. But... Wow. That's all I can say. WOW! Two thirds of you DO NOT profile your data. I have to laugh. LOL. I feel bad about laughing...

The good news is that 66% of you do use some form of payment directly from Salesforce.com. But the bad news ia obvious, 33% of you, when taking payments, jump out of Salesforce.com , either call in, or worse, write down the customers credit information...

There is an old movie my wife loves called Dirty Dancing. In the movie there is a scene where Jerry Orbach has to own up to a mistake, he says, "When I am wrong I say I am wrong". The problem is Jerry's character never actually says he is...

I asked, "What tools do you use when working with Twitter?" By far the number one tool listed was Search.Twitter.com . 2nd was TweetDeck ! Let's exclude search because it is an obvious answer. Although I predict the next big Twitter apps...

There seems to be an increase in the number of web apps we use, and I wanted to how you all were looking at the data you created. Ever think about it? We are all working on line, typing in data ( I am using Zoho right now , sorry Microsoft ), where does...

The government says, "Small businesses make up the majority of the US economy" . They are right! You, Twitter and I have confirmed it. Companies that have less than 200 employees for well over half the responses in last week’s survey (76%!)...