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Why you should care that Oracle is buying Sun

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

However, today’s news that Oracle is going to buy Sun Microsystems has some very important implications. Sun bought MySQL AB (the company behind MySQL) last year for $1 Billion dollars, and therefore, MySQL AB now becomes a part of Oracle, it’s primary competition. For us, it’s generally much more removed.

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Dreamforce: Four big reasons to attend the Salesforce annual conference

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Attending Dreamforce benefits our company and our customers,” said Rob Banwar, Enterprise Sales Director. According to a Salesforce-based survey , 87% of Dreamforce attendees learned something that helped to accelerate company growth. How Leaders Transform Value with a Data-Driven Company . Come to Dreamforce for the results.

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Bloomerang Appoints Tammy Hammond and Steve Byrnes to the Executive Leadership Team

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She has a passion for helping growing companies scale, and will focus on how Bloomerang can help nonprofits save time so they can focus on what matters most: increasing their impact. As Bloomerang’s CSO, Byrnes will work to accelerate new customer growth for the company.

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LibreOffice vs. OpenOffice.org

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It has been in development as OpenOffice.org since 1999, when Sun Microsystems bought the code from a company called Star Division (remember StarOffice?) (You But then … Oracle bought Sun. It actually has more to it than that, there is a drawing program, a database, a math equation editor and more.

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Donor Management Software Comparison: What’s Right for Your Nonprofit?

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Operations & Leadership 10 Ways To Use A Nonprofit Database 8 min read Read Now DonorPerfect DonorPerfect—a company based in Montreal, Canada—is a software provider that serves a wide range of nonprofits with a specific focus on Canadian markets. Oracle NetSuite Social Impact Oracle is, of course, much more than a CRM.

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Bloomerang Appoints Ann Fellman as Chief Marketing Officer

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Company Adds to Leadership Team to Accelerate Delivery of Solutions for Nonprofits. Bloomerang, the complete donor management solution for thousands of small and medium-sized nonprofits, announced they welcomed Ann Fellman as the company’s Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). It’s a powerful mission that I am excited to help deliver.” .

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Measuring Your Nonprofit’s Success with Business Intelligence 

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Business intelligence vs. donor intelligence Donor intelligence Nonprofits have an advantage over for-profit companies thanks to prospect research services, also referred to as “donor intelligence.” This kind of knowledge is called business intelligence. Nonprofits tend to suffer from a lack of it. Nonprofits just don’t have enough of it.

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