Comments for Patrick Shaw's Weblog

Comment on How Much Does Salesforce Cost? by Scott

Scott — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:41:00 +0000

Well though I found the info useful, I’d have loved to at least read a bit about a “range” of cost if it’s so complex to answer straight away…

Comment on Update to Can-Spam Act by Jon Frank’s Weblog / eNewsletter Tools

Jon Frank’s Weblog / eNewsletter Tools — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:13:46 +0000

[...] while your at it, make sure you check out Patrick’s blog post on the update to the Can Spam law. It’s great to be in [...]

Comment on Is Your Data Normal? by patricks

patricks — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:15:08 +0000

Sayo,

Your best option is to find someone local to help - my blog is much more general than providing particular assistance! Good luck - normalizing data can be a great first step to more effective use of a database!

Comment on Is Your Data Normal? by sayo

sayo — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:17:50 +0000

I have a statistical data i want to normalize. i’ve read about some methods already & have tried to applt them; but no success. Methods like box-cox. can you pls give some other straight forward method?
Thanks.

Comment on Measuring the right stuff by Joel Davis

Joel Davis — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:02:31 +0000

You’ve got “the right stuff” alright. Congratulations on accomplishing another marathon!

Comment on Run With Your Data! by Patrick Shaw’s Weblog / Measuring the right stuff

Patrick Shaw’s Weblog / Measuring the right stuff — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:37:22 +0000

[...] the Vancouver Marathon - I ran with my brother Frank. A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that my running watch was in the shop - and it didn’t arrive in time for me to take it to the race - so I ran the [...]

Comment on Getting to the root of the problem by patricks

patricks — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:31:51 +0000

And if you’re looking for additional information - here’s a link to a story about a particular Root Kit attack: http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080113/tc_pcworld/141300

Comment on Update To Salesforce Security Setting - what you should know by patricks

patricks — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:12:24 +0000

Josh,

I agree that ANY hosted solution should become more secure (and Salesforce just introduced additional security measures).

At the same time - I wonder if you’re asking the wrong people (A CRM vendor) to solve a ubiquitous challenge where all of the moving pieces don’t fall into their purview.

Do you expect Apple to solve all spam issues? Ebay to solve identity fraud? Google to address hijack mal-ware?

Many agencies successfully use hosted solutions and VPN’s without trouble - but those companies also use strong passwords, change them regularly, educate their users, update their software and take measures on their own rather than expecting a third party vendor to have all of the answers.

Comment on Update To Salesforce Security Setting - what you should know by Josh Whiting

Josh Whiting — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:18:15 +0000

Being “at least as secure as typical VPN” is not good enough, especially for a company the size of Salesforce.com. A typical security level does not ensure the safety of the countless clients Salesforce has to be responsible for. Their size has made them a target to phishing attacks and this can only increase over time, if Salesforce was breached once, it’s likely to happen again. Somebody needs to take CRM security to the next level, whoever takes the first step in ending phishing attacks on CRM Software whether it is Salesforce, Salesboom.com or Netsuite would be the only company I would trust my personal, let alone my companies data with.

Comment on Effective Use of Technology by Janine

Janine — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:06:28 +0000

Hey Patrick

Thanks so much for the mention!! We offer 15% discounts to all non profits as you know.

Cheers!

Janine Popick
CEO
VR