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Salesforce.com: High maintenance costs are pushing customers to us: Salesforce.com delivered strong fourth quarter results that put CEO Marc Benioff in a more chatty mood than usual. The big takeaway: Salesforce.com is using high maintenance costs from big vendors like Oracle and SAP to its advantage.Ã‚Â First, the financial figures. Salesforce.com reported fourth quarter earnings of...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Customer, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2009-02-26
Salesforce bucks trend for Q3; shares rising.: updated: At a time when companies are issuing warnings about missing earnings targets and scaling back expectations, enterprise cloud computing company salesforce.com seems to be bucking the trend. After the bell, Salesforce.com reported income of $10.1 million, or 8 cents per share, on revenue of $276.5 million...; Tags: Revenue, Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Enterprise Software, Quarter, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Finance, Sales, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2008-11-20
Salesforce mashes up the cloud so you don't have to: Force.com now comes with built-in integration to three other major cloud platforms: Google Apps, Amazon Web Services and Facebook. The strategy positions Force.com as the optimal gateway to access Web resources when developing to the Web-as-platform. by Phil Wainewright; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Cloud Computing, Strategy, Management, Phil Wainewright, Facebook, Marc Benioff, Platform, Amazon.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales; Blog posts 2008-11-04
Social to CRM to Enterprise: Not So Fast....: Darn, I missed it: Salesforce.com is opening itself up to Facebook. Or is it the other way around? I had received a belated invite to attend SFDCÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s Dreamforce from Marc Benioff, but too much real work prevented me from attending. So I had to read the press releases and my...; Tags: Facebook, Marc Benioff, LinkedIn, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Joshua Greenbaum; Blog posts 2008-11-04
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.comÃ¢â‚¬â„¢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

Dreamforce: Salesforce and Facebook [podcast]: Salesforce.com announced a data sharing partnership with Facebook today. Only time will reveal whether it's a marriage made in heaven or an example of what happens when worlds collide. by Michael Krigsman; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Facebook, Sales Force Management, Podcasts, Business Structures, Sales, Internet, Finance, Michael Krigsman, Marc Benioff; Blog posts 2008-11-03
Salesforce.com 'gets' enterprise blogging: Salesforce.com started its Dreamforce conference by showing that it understands and supports enterprise software blogging. by Michael Krigsman; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Blogging, Sales Force Management, Internet, Sales, Michael Krigsman, Marc Benioff, Conference, Blogger, Cloud Computing; Blog posts 2008-11-03
Dell bets on Salesforce.com's platform as a service: Amid a quarter that Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff called "spectacular," but spooked analysts worried about future growth was an interesting nugget: Dell has jumped on the platform as a service bandwagon. On Salesforce.com's second quarter conference call (earnings recap, InStranet acquisition) Benioff revealed that Dell signed a...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Marc Benioff, Billing, PaaS, Summer Sales Cycle, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-08-21
Marc Benioff heralds Web 3.0 at DreamForce Europe: Marc Benioff heralds Web 3.0 at DreamForce EuropeFrom all indicationsEverybody is searching still for Web 2.0. And they're trying to trot out Web 3.0 already?HDTV, Vista, and now Web 3.0. What will they think of next? Flying Monkeymobiles?; Tags: Channel management, Web 3.0, Web, Dreamforce Europe, Marc Benioff; Discussion threads 2008-05-07
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 Ã¢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
Churchill Club: Benioff vs. Plattner (full version): In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series, Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com debates SAP Chairman Hasso Plattner on the future of enterprise software. We recapped the event, but there's the full audio. Speakers: Marc Benioff, ...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Chairman, SAP AG, Podcasts, Sales Force Management, Internet, Sales, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-14
A SaaSy SAP vs. Salesforce debate: Is Benioff overestimating his platform?: Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and SAP Chairman Hasso Plattner dueled at the Churchill Club in a debate about the future of software and the generation gap couldn't be larger. Benioff brought the bluster, portrayed SAP as a dinosaur and prodded his much larger rival to develop in...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, SAP AG, Updates, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-04
Marc Benioff: Marketing maverick's journey from Apple to Salesforce: In this Super Techies interview, tech star Marc Benioff talks with CNET News.com's Dan Farber about his career as a business entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. Benioff discusses his early work as a programmer for Apple; honing his sales and marketing skills with industry mogul Larry Ellison at Oracle; and his...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, On-demand, Apple Inc., Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Cloud Computing, Sales, Marketing, Personal Technology; Videos 2008-03-27
Signs point to Benioff to succeed Ellison at Oracle: The more I look at it the more I'm convinced that Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, will replace Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle when he retires. Of course, that would mean Oracle acquiring Salesforce, but Apple got back Steve Jobs when it acquired his Next corp....; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Oracle Corp., Oracle Profit Margin, Sales Force Management, Sales, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-03-24
Benioff: Platform as a service needs a decade to cook: Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff reckons that its platform as a service initiatives will take about a decade to truly bake. Benioff made those comments in an interview with News.com's Dan Farber and Charles Cooper. The interview is worth a read given that Benioff and Dan usually have...; Tags: Marc Benioff, Platform, Service, Application Servers, Sales Force Management, Software As A Service (SaaS), Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-03-17
Marc Benioff on AIR (and Flex plus Flash): Yesterday, Adobe hosted Engage an invitation only event at which it showcased some of the cool things developers are doing with Flex, Flash and AIR. Robert Scoble was there with his N95 and a Qik account, filming the entire day. Despite it being a closed event, Adobe made no effort...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Adobe AIR, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-02-26
Salesforce.com ascends to the cloud: Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff opened his "Tour de Force" presentation in San Francisco touting the prowess of the Force.com platform and his company--1 million subscribers, on track for more than $1 billion in its fiscal year (starting Feb. 1), 24 billion API calls to date, 130 million transactions daily, 210...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Andreessen, Marc Benioff, Platform, Internet, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2008-01-17
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 Ã¢â‚¬" the third in the...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2007-09-19
Salesforce.com and the Force family name: It's taken a long time for Salesforce.com to get hold of the Force.com domain name that the company unveils today. CEO Marc Benioff told Dan Farber that negotiations took a tough four years. But it wasn't because the previous owners had a significant revenue stream coming from it. Their attachment...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Domain, CRM, Internet Archive, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2007-09-17
Dreamforce 07: Salesforce rolls out Visualforce: Marc Benioff took the stage at Moscone Center before an estimated 7,000 salesforce.com adherents from 42 countries to tout a "new force for innovation." After several years of negotiation, the company nabbed the Force.com URL and promptly applied it as the new name to the the salesforce platform formerly Apex....; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Sales Force, Logic, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-09-17