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- Salesforce Chatter: Facebook for the Enterprise
- Salesforce is announcing today a Salesforce Chatter, an enteprise collaboration application akin to Facebook. The move puts SalesForce in competition with offerings from other providers, including IBM Lotus. Here's what's being delivered. Features: Profiles: Just like profiles on popular consumer-oriented social networking sites, Salesforce Chatter profiles include...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Facebook, Platform, App, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- Boomi issues Dream Widget challenge ahead of Dreamforce show
- A company called Boomi is so confident of its application integration technology that it has issued a challenge ahead of next month's Dreamforce conference in San Francisco: tell Boomi which application you'd most like to see integrated into salesforce and Boomi will create the "Dream Widget" to give away at...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force, Integration, Boomi, Application Integration, Sales Force Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Brent Leary Expounds: The SMBs Rejoice
- Brent Leary, who is not only my bud, but one of the leading, no, the leading, small business consultant and analyst when it comes to small business (duh!), CRM, social CRM and social media,  is someone that I want to highlight on these pages.  Not that you need to come...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Leader, Small Business, Small And Medium Business, CRM, Brent Leary, Maximizer Needs, Price Point, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-09-14
- Salesforce opens cloud to resellers, expanding AppExchange
- Salesforce is taking cloud computing on the road, opening its force.com platform to third-party channel re-sellers - everyone from the local one-man IT shop to the big systems integrators. Today, the company will announce its new Value Added Reseller VAR program as a way of helping...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force, Reseller, Salesforce.com AppExchange, Value-added Reseller, Retail, Sales Force Management, Channel Management, Sales, Marketing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
- Sugar CRM reduces prices across the board, looking for broad adoption
- As I said on my personal weblog yesterday: A day rarely passes that I don’t see another pricing adjustment in the saas world. Today it is SugarCRM that is taking the knife to prices, bringing the cost of a 5 user 'Express' system hosted in the internet cloud...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Board, Sugar CRM, Schenider, Open Source, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- NetSuite aims to connect to Salesforce.com's cloud
- NetSuite aims to connect to Salesforce.com's cloudGreat Post, NetSuite SmartI was going to write this but you did. Great post on a very smart move by NetSuite.Paul GreenbergRE: NetSuite aims to connect to Salesforce.com's cloudNetsuite to Salesforce sounds clunky way too many players involved. If you use Salesforce.com why...
- Tags: Sales force management, NetSuite Inc., Salesforce.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-02
- Congratulations Marc… The next $billion will be harder
- In 10 years, salesforce.com founder and CEO Marc Benioff has turned CRM-as-a-service into a $1B business with 55,400 customers. Both numbers are impressive. It took SAP more than 35 years and an acquisition of Business Objects to cross the 50,000 customer mark (BOBJ pushed them over 80,000). ...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., Sales Force, Siebel Systems Inc., SAP AG, CRM, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales, Emerging Technologies, Bruce Richardson
- Blog posts 2009-03-17
- Salesforce.com: Pondering the next 10 years
- Salesforce.com turns 10 Monday and in the last decade it has cemented its standing as a leading enterprise software vendor and leader of the software as a service and cloud computing charge. However, the next 10 years may be much more interesting. Salesforce.com, officially launched in a...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Cloud Computing, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- Facebook slammed, Google and Apple continue to get free pass?
- Far be it of me to downplay the impact of activists on the Facebook ToS issue but it raises interesting questions about why some companies get pilloried while others seemingly get a free pass. There is no need for me to rehash the story as Techmeme is...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Apple Inc., Goodness, Podcasts, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- CRM 2009 - Companies to Watch For - Live and Let Die - Part 1
- We're heading into the forecasting homestretch now. You've seen what I'm thinking 'sup for 2009 with this post, this post, and this post. Now we move onto the final one or two or three (we'll see how long I can go writing each one before I get tired or sick...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Oracle Corp., Vision, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Sales, CRM, SDN, BPX, Marketing Functionality, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2008-12-10
- SaaS battlegrounds: Salesforce v Zoho
- When Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff put on his jocular performance for the analysts and press at Dreamforce yesterday, I'm sure he didn't expect little ol' Zoho to come bite him in the pants. That's exactly what's happened. According to Venture Beat's Anthony Ha: Salesforce.com’s strategy can...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Marc Benioff, Zoho, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- Can Force.com help consolidate your web tier?
- At Dreamforce today, here in San Francisco, Salesforce.com announced a significant, and seemingly long overdue, enhancement to its SaaS offering. They announced Force.com for Facebook and Force.com for Amazon Web Services that are pre-integrations between their platform and these two other platforms. This new capability lets enterprise customers of their...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Web, Integration, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Channel Management, Sales, Marketing, James Staten
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- Salesforce acquires InStranet; Will take it SaaS and better target call centers
- Salesforce.com said Wednesday that it will acquire InStranet, which provides knowledge management software for call centers, and integrate its technology with its existing CRM customer service and support offering. Simply put, Salesforce.com is acquiring traditional enterprise software for $31.5 million and turning it into a service in an effort to...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., InStranet Inc., Software-as-a-service, Falcione, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- When thinking PaaS, think about it in terms of audience
- Software as a service has turned into platform as a service (as if we needed another "aaS") and as this application battle royale gets underway developers need to think about these efforts in terms of audience. For instance, Bill Appleton, CTO of DreamFactory, which makes cloudware--rich Internet...
- Tags: Intuit QuickBase, Platform, PaaS, Salesforce.com AppExchange, DreamFactory, Cloud Computing, Tools & Techniques, Project Management, Sales Force Management, Management, It Operations, It service Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- 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
- Scaling the cloud, deflating the price of software
- After a week of intensive usage last December getting his company's application to run against Amazon's SimpleDB cloud database, DreamFactory founder and CTO Bill Appleton wondered how big a bill he'd run up. To his amazement, what had seemed like a week's heavy usage had cost just a few cents....
- Tags: Software, Database, On-demand, Amazon.com Inc., Pricing Strategy, DreamFactory, Bill Appleton, Pricing, Cloud Computing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Siebel 2.0 â€" A Year Later
- A year ago I predicted that, right about this time, Salesforce.com would start to look a little shabby, a whole lot shabbier than it indeed looks at this time. It was part of a polemic I started when I called Salesforce.com the next Siebel, and I didn’t necessarily mean in...
- Tags: Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- Hosted software development: an emerging market [includes podcast]
- Note: Click the player above to hear my podcast interview on hosted development with Jeffrey Walker and Jeff Leyser from Atlassian Software. Hosted software as a service SaaS development solutions have become an important option for mainstream programmers. These products range from straightforward offsite storage, such as...
- Tags: Software, Podcast, Environment, Emerging Market, Workflow, Tool, Development Environment, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Development Tools, Management, Software/Web Development, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-11
- Salesforce and Google team to conquer the enterprise
- Salesforce has just released see all coverage the long-awaited integration of its CRM applications with Google Apps, embedding email, documents, online chat and integrated calendaring directly into its core sales force automation, marketing and customer service applications. I've had advance warning of this move, as [in a paid engagement â€"...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Google Apps, Team, Application, On-demand, Integration, Google Talk Integration, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
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