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Salesforce, Adobe bring Flash to Force.com

Businesses who have already taken the plunge into the Salesforce cloud will find something new this morning: Adobe Flash. The two companies today announced an alliance that brings the power of the Adobe Flash platform to the Salesforce's Force.com, where developers build - and many times share...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Developer, Adobe Systems Inc., Force.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Salesforce opens Sites; offers free version to help push cloud adoption

Salesforce opens Sites; offers free version to help push cloud adoptionForce.com free edition is a challange for SaaS vendorsI think the option to create 100-user Free account on Force.com platform gonna make a big difference. The thing is it really challanges other vendors and the question is how they will...

Tags: Sales force management, Force.com, Salesforce.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-06-18

Could your software CEO be a TV pitchman? Benioff might...

Salesforce's CEO & Billy Mays - the ultimate pitch team! satire I (and 600 others) attended the recent Salesforce.com event here in Chicago. Salesforce was promoting its platform-as-a-service PaaS, Force.com. At these events, the different talks have their own highlights but, for me, I...

Tags: Software, Salesforce.com Inc., PaaS, TV, Force.com, Marc, Sales Force Management, Cloud Computing, Sales, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-05-07

Can software development aspire to the cloud?

Can software development aspire to the cloud?The Force.com compiler is in the cloud not on the desktopTony,Your description of the Force.com IDE isn't accurate at all. When code is written in the IDE and then saved, here's what happens:1) File is saved to disk2) File is sent across the...

Tags: Development tools, software, software development, Force.com, IDE

Discussion threads 2009-05-03

Salesforce's unspoken build and buy strategy

At this week's Cloudforce I was keen to understand what is happening on the Force.com platform. Narinder Singh,  Appirio's marketing strategist came on stage to talk about how they used the Force.com platform to set up MyStarbucksidea.com. This is an example of a situational application, built and designed for a...

Tags: Strategy, Salesforce.com Inc., Force.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-04-07

SAP snags Coghead

SAP snags CogheadGood to Hear!!Good to Hear SAP's smart move :-) This will definitely gear up.Cheers,Kathiravan Manoharanhttp://kathyravan.blogspot.comhttp://paisamechanic.blogspot.comRE: SAP snags CogheadDennis,The reason Coghead went bust was all to do with their lack of sales and marketing skills. The Force.com platform is still the only real ecosystem play for ISVs and Service...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Strategy, Coghead, SAP AG, Force.com, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-02-19

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

Facebook, Salesforce.com aim to create common developer network

Facebook and Salesforce.com today announced that the two companies will partner to make it easier for Force.com developers to utilize Facebook's API while creating hosted applications. According to Facebook, the new relationship is designed to create a more established development community between Facebook's 120 million users and Salesforce.com's 100,000 developers....

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Facebook, Network, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-11-03

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 â€" 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 â€" 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