Travel…Everyone has their horror stories from lost luggage, delayed flights and reservation systems that seem to only stall when you travel and never inconvenience anyone else. Very seldom do we hear a story that entails a positive experience. This is one of those stories so be sure and bookmark this page and refer to it often. A …
A couple of months ago I wanted to increase referrals on our industry blog servicevirtualization.com. I had always automatically posted to my profile seeking LinkedIn referrals and got some clicks but my network was becoming saturated with service virtualization content since there is a post almost everyday. One day one of the sales guys wanted to so …
Recently I was questioning some theories on the big social networks. My theory was that every social networking (via a platform) only works if you know how to work it. But, once you figure out how to work it then they change it and you have to modify your methods a bit. The real theory …
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The Service Virtualization team had a great track at CA World 2013. There were over 20 different sessions from our team and from customers. The customer sessions were packed so others could hear how CA LISA was being used at DIRECTV, Qualcomm, BCBSMN, Sprint, Nationwide, First Data and Unionbank. We captivated many on how our …
The Shift Left Tour was an 11-city road show across North America with voke analyst, Theresa Lanowitz. The road show combined unique research and survey content from service virtualization users across the globe. Each stop on the roadshow delivered the content at eclectic and experiential venues to create a service virtualization analogy. The roadshow visited museums, science centers, customer …
I use Gmail a lot because it is easy flexible and good from almost anywhere. There are some neat add-ons and plugins for Gmail and one of those is Rapportive.com. I saw a video on how to have a guessed email validated with the plugin from Rob Ousbey so I downloaded it just in case. …
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A big thanks to Matt Hillyer and Eleven Hundred Springs for playing at our CA “is” event. Having live music at the office was a big change for the legacy CA employees and they loved it. Everyone enjoyed themselves and complied with my forced fun in being part of the video shoot. In preparation for …
I just arrived home from a flurry of activity at Oracle OpenWorld. This was my first trip out there but won’t be the last. The purpose my trip was to launch a new book, “Service Virtualization: Reality is Overrated.” CA announced the book on Monday, gave away 3000 copies in the first 2 days, and CTO …
This is a simple workflow diagram and a set of steps you can follow to set up an automated demand generation system.