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How Oracle Thrived in the 2008 Recession, Even with Missed Revenue Opportunities

SBI Growth

The year is 2007. The real estate market is flush. Stocks are booming. Getting a loan has never been easier. Companies are investing in themselves, growing their businesses, and increasing shareholder value. Now fast forward to 2008. The real estate bubble.

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Meet the Spiff Team: Chapter Three

The Spiff Blog

Marcello Albuquerque, Software Engineer. Born in California, Dave grew up in Boise, Idaho before moving to Seattle, Washington for undergraduate studies at the University of Washington in politics and economics. Benjamin Naugle, Software Engineer. Royce Joe, Software Engineer. Marcello was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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The Closer | 66% of sellers would rather clean the bathroom than update their CRM

Groove.co

Thanks to a new study by Beagle Research Group and Oracle , we now know that sellers would rather clean bathrooms and go to the DMV than update their CRM. Forget “No Software.” In fact, less than 20 years ago, Salesforce almost went out of business. Salesforce was almost “No Cloud” as well.

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What makes a stellar B2B sales person?

Artesian Solutions

Andrew graduated from university with a degree in Business Studies and following in his father’s footsteps, sought out a sales role. So, following his two-year graduate stint, and coinciding with the dotcom bubble bursting, Andrew left Oracle, and decided to give sales another go. The path to sales success.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: TCA Champ - Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server?

The ROI Guy

Wednesday, November 08, 2006 TCA Champ - Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server? Two of the leading choices are Microsoft SQL 2005 and Oracle Database 10g. To assure similar comparisons, the study examined potential differences in the application, load and complexity of the database instances. per user for Oracle.

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8 Workplace Training Trends for 2021

Lessonly

Workplace training , mental health resources, e learning software , work-life balance, employee development software and so much more now have a different look and feel. Two separate studies by McKinsey and KPMG found that at least 80% of leaders accelerated the implementation of technology due to Covid-19.

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Should Your Sales Team Go Forever-Remote?

CloserIQ

A comprehensive study on remote work from Stanford University found that remote workers are, on average, 13% more productive than their office-based counterparts. Well known names like Salesforce, Oracle, and Microsoft Dynamics allow sales teams to coordinate the countless variables of thousands of prospects and leads remotely.

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