(888) 815-08022020 update: This post contains legacy content regarding Revenue.io features. For the most recent up-to-date information about Revenue.io, please check out our amazing solutions at www.revenue.io After much speculation, we’re excited to see that Apple has finally unveiled the iPad mini. We were reassured by the news today that the new iPad mini is, in […]
2 min read - October 22, 2012
Why Enterprise Software Needs to Be as Easy as it is Powerful
Much of last week’s TwilioCon conference focused on the virtues of prioritizing customer experience. Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson told the audience of developers, “You’re focused on the user instead of the scaffolding,” before interviewing Box CEO & co-founder Aaron Levie, who declared that simplicity was the key to his company’s success. Like Gmail before it, Box […]
3 min read - October 12, 2012
It’s Only a Matter of Time Before the iPad Replaces the Desktop Phone
Imagine it’s the not-too-distant future and you walk into a museum exhibit entitled “The History of Voice Communications.” On display is a menagerie of antiquated voice communications devices that were once cutting-edge solutions, that in their day made the world seem a bit smaller. Nestled among old-time rotary phones, 1980s Miami Vice-era car phones and […]
On the heels of our fantastic week at Dreamforce, Revenue.io has been selected as one of just four companies to present its vision for the future of B2B telecom at StartupCamp6 this week. StartupCamp draws a huge crowd consisting of potential investors, journalists and decision-makers in the telecom industry, and is slated to be a highlight of […]
Revenue.io founder & CEO Howard Brown presented at Dreamforce with Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson, CrushPath SVP of Products Matt Wilkinson, and Vinod Sirimalle, Director of Product Management at Cloudsquads. Speaking under the broad theme of the future of voice communication automation, Lawson kicked off the session, discussing how the Internet is forcing changes in sales […]
1 min read - September 18, 2012
Revenue Spottings at Dreamforce
Thanks to everyone who sported their Revenue.io Retro Receivers at the Dreamforce conference today, and especially those of you who posted pics on Twitter. We enjoyed talking to many of you up in the terrific Twilio Booth in Moscone West, as well as in the jaw-droppingly cool Appirio Club. We’ll be there all week, so […]
We were blown away by the demand for our Revenue.io Retro Phones today at Dreamforce, distributing the first 1,000 in a little under two hours. The phones have already been spotted in Twitter photos, and thanks to all of you who have already downloaded Revenue.io Free for Salesforce in the Apple Store. You don’t need […]
While Revenue.io is shaping the future of business telephony, we want to take a moment to pay our respects to the telephony’s past. That’s why we’ll be handing out free retro-cool Revenue.io phone receivers at Dreamforce, the biggest cloud computing event of the year (September 19-21). Though our Revenue.io Retro Receivers might look at home […]
2 min read - September 12, 2012
Revenue’s Howard Brown and Kyle Roche to Speak at Dreamforce 2012
Dreamforce is less than a week away! We’re working long hours here at Revenue.io getting ready for what’s sure to be not only the cloud computing event of the year, but also the most important business technology event. Last year was a blast. Our VP, Mobile, Kyle Roche won first place in the Dreamforce Hackathon […]
I had the good fortune to work in Seattle during the release of one of the earliest tablet computers, the Tablet PC (you thought Microsoft Surface was their first effort, didn’t you?). If you lived in Seattle in 2002, you would have been forgiven for thinking that the Tablet PC was a runaway hit. The city seemed […]
As we dutifully work toward the private beta launch of our iPad release, Revenue.io has been grateful for continued press coverage. Buzz has especially been generating around our use of APIs to integrate voice metrics and analytics data into CRM tools. Multinational telecommunications titan Alcatel-Lucent used Revenue.io as a case study in their recent whitepaper […]
It’s amazing how quickly perceptions change. When we showed early versions of Revenue.io’s ability to integrate a contact’s social streams from Twitter and Facebook and news sources, the value from a sales perspective was immediately apparent. Still, there were lingering worries that this whole “social media thing” might still be fleeting. Salesforce.com’s declaration of the […]