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- SaaS star leaves SAP for Salesforce.com
- Enterprise software giant SAP has lost Business Objects' Steve Lucas, one of its brightest software-as-a-service stars, to Salesforce.com, where he takes up a new role driving the vendor's platform strategy by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, ISV, SAP AG, Steve Lucas, Force.com, TenWolde, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Sales Force Management, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Salesforce.com, Partners, and Value-Added SaaS
- As the resident Salesforce.com basher at ZDNet, it is with some smugness that I am watching the birth of a fellow naysayer on the future of Salesforce.com's efforts to break forth from its CRM on-demand origins into its next big thing. The new critic in the Salesforce.com-watcher camp belongs to...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, SFDC, Force.com, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- CODA2Go and the economics of PaaS
- I had the opportunity to talk money last week with Jeremy Roche, CEO of CODA, the venerable UK-based business software vendor that has become the poster child for Salesforce.com's platform ambitions after the release at DreamForce Europe of its new on-demand financials application, built and delivered entirely on Force.com. Why...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Roche Holding AG, PaaS, On-demand, CODA2Go, Force.com, Coda, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Hosted software development: an emerging market [includes podcast]
- Hosted software development: an emerging market [includes podcast]Emerging market?If we're talking about version control, bug tracking, compile farms, etc then how is this an emerging market? Companies have been doing this for years.As for leasing out computer time...this has been done for decades. It just went out...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Marketing research, Financial services, Podcasts, Development tools, Force.com, emerging market, tool, Hosted, Hosted software development, software development, podcast
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- Marc Benioff heralds Web 3.0 at DreamForce Europe
- Salesforce.com has come to London today for its first DreamForce Europe event. There have been European customer and partner events in previous years, but this is the first event at true DreamForce scale — 2,500 attendees at the Barbican conference center in the heart of the City, London's financial district....
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Web, Marc Benioff, Web 3.0, PaaS, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Channel Management, Sales, Marketing, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Salesforce.com's bold development platform vision [includes executive podcast]
- Note: Click the player to listen to my podcast interview with Steve Cakebread, President and Chief Strategy Officer of Salesforce.com. Steve comments on his company's strategy, discusses on-premises software, and presents Salesforce.com's vision for mobile devices. Salesforce.com's Tour de Force roadshow is traveling around the world...
- Tags: Software, Salesforce.com Inc., Developer, Podcast, Outsource, Vision, Force.com, On-premises, Sales Force Management, Sales, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Enterprise SaaS and the cloud
- Enterprise SaaS and the cloudBut at What Cost?Help me out Phil. I attended the Force.com launch event yesterday, and while impressed with the offer found myself wondering about about the price of entry. The new $5 per login notwithstanding, if I intend to build a new enterprise business...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Sales force management, Force.com, Salesforce.com Inc., software-as-a-service, Enterprise SaaS, OEM
- Discussion threads 2008-01-18
- Enterprise SaaS and the cloud
- ISVs today have three choices when setting out to build a SaaS application: A. Build the application on your own infrastructure, which you'll have to assemble from scratch using open source and commodity components. B. Build it on a packaged platform from an established application infrastructure...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Andreessen, Software-as-a-service, Platform, ISV, Computing, Force.com, Riskonnect, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales Force Management, Service Management, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
- On the bleeding edge of platform-as-a-service
- At April's SaaScon show, Salesforce.com's head of platform development Steve Fisher demonstrated a vacation booking application he'd built with a colleague in a weekend using the since renamed as Force.com platform. As with all demonstrations, of course, what made it all look so easy was the preparation that had gone...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Intention, Application, Platform, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2007-10-25
- Digging beneath Salesforce.com's platform hype
- When Marc Benioff unveiled Salesforce.com's new Force.com branding for its former Apex platform on Monday, it came as something of an anti-climax for the 7,000 Dreamforce delegates crowded in the Moscone conference hall picture by Dan Farber. Is that it, many wondered? A new name — the third in the...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2007-09-19
- Dreamforce 07: Salesforce.com unveils Force.com
- At the Dreamforce 07 conference in San Francisco, Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff talks about the new Force.com, which will act as a platform for the company's various software services.
- Tags: Software, Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Tools & Techniques
- Videos 2007-09-17
- The force joins Salesforce.com
- Salesforce.com keeps changing the names, which makes it somewhat confusing if you are trying to cover the company's quest to upend the software industry. This week salesforce.com (the publicly-traded company, with the ticker symbol "CRM") introduced Force.com , the new moniker for the salesforce (the applications--sales, services, marketing, partner, content...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force, Force.com, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-17
- SAP's A1S and Salesforce.com's Force.com: Brinkmanship at Its Best
- SAP's A1S and Salesforce.com's Force.com: Brinkmanship at Its BestAbsolutely Ridiculous - A1S = Way2LateThis advertisement for SAP is ridiculous in its lack of objectivity. Even people inside of SAP are not this bullish (i.e. are more balanced in their analysis) How many years has A1s been under...
- Tags: Sales force management, Strategy, product innovation, SAP AG, SAP A1S, Brinkmanship, Force.com, Salesforce.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-14
- Salesforce.com: It's all about the UI
- Salesforce.com on Friday announced a new offering dubbed Force.com, an on-demand platform that gives companies the backend infrastructure as well as the tools to design their applications. The Force.com platform, which is headlined by Visualforce, a user interface-as-a-service technology see gallery at right, is really designed to appeal...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Visualforce, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-09-13
Additional Resources
- 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison
- Edward "Eddie" Davidson, a notorious e-mail spammer who was sentenced to jail time in April, has escaped from a federal prison camp in Florence, Colorado. Davidson left, also known as the "Spam King, made a run for it when his wife visited him last Sunday and is now officially...
- Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Restitution, Federal Prison Camp, E-mail, Security, Online Communications, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Evil tech administrators
- Evil tech administratorsEvil Tech Admin'sI've work at a few places where some of the Admin's I worked with were a bit on the sneeky side. So As a admin I made sure there was a back door incase one fo these admins tried to pull the same stunt. Its happened...
- Tags: NETWORKING, Recruitment & Selection, administrator, network
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- AOL's ousted CEO being considered for Yahoo seat
- Can Jonathan Miller do for Yahoo what he tried to do for AOL? Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Investor Carl Icahn, who reached a compromise with Yahoo this morning to avoid a nasty proxy battle for seats on the company's board of directors,...
- Tags: America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Miller, Corporate Governance, Venture Capital, Team Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Financing Startups, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- 600 Starbucks to close. Good Riddance!
- Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! As the great Obi-Wan Kenobi once said "I felt a great disturbance in the Force...as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced." Click on the "Read the rest of this entry" link below...
- Tags: Coffee, Starbucks Corp., Modems, Retail, Wireless LANs, DSL, E-mail, Network Technology, Hardware, Components, Wireless, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- If sameness is a recipe for losing, how do you win?
- If sameness is a recipe for losing, how do you win?OT but relevant: The heavy tread of IT.Quoting from the stern warnings about SharePoint from another Comment:“As many shops are discovering, SharePoint is also a development platform that people both inside and outside of IT use to create intranets,...
- Tags: Collaboration, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise software, Microsoft SharePoint, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Apple chaos theory
- I got a fairly lukewarm response to my excitement over Oracle putting applications on the iPhone. That should be no surprise to readers of Fortune which also poured cold water on the idea that iPhone's are going to be the next big thing in corporate gadgets: Companies in highly...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, CIO, Theory, Information Technology, Apple Inc., Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
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