Migrate from Lotus Notes to Slack

During these years, the 66% of big companies are moving from Lotus Notes to Outlook as e-mail platform. I am affected by this migration and I can only say that my efficiency has not improved, I really cannot change the way to work or share information… it’s almost the same. What is disruptive it is … Read more

Zurmo upgrade 2.8.6-3.0.4

On CPanel, there is an upgrade available for Zurmo. I have tried to execute it and it returns me the following message of error: The following errors were found : Could not complete Zurmo upgrade phase 1 2.7.3-2.8.6 Could not complete Zurmo upgrade 2.7.3-2.8.6 Could not complete Zurmo upgrade phase 1 2.8.6-3.0.4 Could not complete … Read more

Scratch

Ability to code is a skill that today almost everybody recognize as a very valuable skill that soon will be something that will be mandatory. Develop this skill as soon as possible is something interesting for those kids that likes computers, tablets and maths. To have the right environment to introduce programming, a IDE an … Read more

Digital Marketing events in soccer

The soccer teams are running to evolve in their way to reach new supporters and promote new ways of engage with their brands. In May 2015, Real Madrid and Microsoft did it first, they focus on 450 millions of fans. In August 2015, Manchester United and HCL, announced the second major contract at this level, … Read more

Zurmo, creating your own report through SQL

I’m having an issue with the execution time of the scripts in Zurmo so I have created the following SQL statement to extract the data I need: SELECT `contact`.`id` contactid, `contact`.`companyname` companyname, `person`.`firstname` firstname, `person`.`lastname` lastname, `email`.`emailaddress` emailaddress, `address`.`state` state FROM `contact` INNER JOIN `person` ON `person`.`id` = `contact`.`person_id` INNER JOIN `email` ON `email`.`id` = … Read more

Issue exporting Zurmo report, maximum execution time exceeded

I have an issue with Zurmo and I still have not been able to fix it. The issue occurs when I try to export a big report into .CSV file. It returns this error: Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /home/username/public_html/ws/app/protected/core/models/RedBeanModel.php on line 1279 I have done the following steps below … Read more

Automotive industry trends

Automotive Industry is suffering changes, as other industries: Speed of online purchases from other sectors (electronics, trips, retail, food…) is carrying over to car purchases. It’s very difficult to sell cars on-line and this requires to have car dealers around the geography. More and more people research cars on-line as first step for buying, then … Read more

From USA to Europe, through Ireland

So many USA companies follow a common pattern when they want to start to compete in Europe: they basically do it starting their moves in Ireland. The main reasons are : English, as common language so they can communicate well each other and start with UK as main market target. In the main cities there … Read more

Zuora, subscription model as a service

The world is moving from a product based economy to a service based economy. Some companies born in the subscription model, but others need to transform from their existing model to the subscription based model. So, well everybody knows already that Zuora is an emerging competitor in the market, creating and end to end solution … Read more

Scenario planning

Scenario planning of a company, product, solution or organization is a tough work. You have to understand the landscape, competitors, your capabilities, inertia, common patterns, weak signals, anticipation & game-play. I face the situation on solutions (which is less complex) and an start-up company and the concentration to do it well is enormous. To gather … Read more