Storytelling is a big part of today’s life. When somebody has good story telling skills, she gets people around her inspired. Inspiration into the things we do, spending time within the things we find fascinating. That’s what this blog is all about. Storytelling about things.
Selecting vendors and managing vendor relationships can be quite challenging. The big vendors might rely on their name and offer resources that don’t always reflect the expected level. On the other hand, the resources of smaller vendors could be highly skilled but also in high demand, and in the end they will not have enough time to allocate to your project.
We did a lot of work in the cloud during the winter and spring 2014. Seven years ago we started to develop our sales-friendly Virta CRM, and now we wanted to make it compatible with the Microsoft Azure cloud services. This way we would be able to offer Virta CRM to our customers from the public cloud.
It all started in spring 2007. I got a chance to lead a product development team which had the target to implement a CRM system for salespeople. How would we get the salesperson to become interested in using CRM so that she would log all her activities there? How to build an attractive user-interface which would at the same time show all the relevant information? What if the application would be game-like, even addictive.