Sears Canada today announced one of the largest sales force automation technology rollouts by a Canadian company. Six-hundred-and-twenty-five Sears Canada field support technicians across the country will use mobile devices powered by this technology to do their job better.
IBM Corp. announced several products at its DeveloperWorks Live event in New Orleans in April, specifically unveiling the combination of IBM's Tivoli platform and autonomic computing for self-managing systems as part of its On Demand computing strategy.
Retail-sector CIOs said last week that they still face challenges finding packaged software to meet their needs, particularly in the supply chain areas.
Several corporate users this week said a new sales strategy being implemented by Microsoft Corp. is the right approach if the software vendor wants a better chance of winning customers at the enterprise level.