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- Reviewcast: Saleforce.com's Visual Force is like an on-demand version of FoxPro (but better)
- Reviewcast: Saleforce.com's Visual Force is like an on-demand version of FoxPro but betterOther playersAlso take a look at at Netsuite and a company called Interneer and their "Instant Application Platform." Microsoft's "Titan" Live CRM is also a potential player in this game.
- Tags: Visual Force, Reviewcast, Saleforce.com, FoxPro, on-demand
- Discussion threads 2007-10-19
- How is AppExchange really doing?
- How is AppExchange really doing?You have your facts wrong on the salesforce APIYou state that Team Edition and Professional Edition don't let customers use the salesforce API. That is false.AppExchange Applications can use the API with Team and Profession Editions if they are "Certified".The two example you mentioned,...
- Tags: Sales force management, Team management, Saleforce.com, Salesforce.com AppExchange, Professional Edition, team, API
- Discussion threads 2007-05-10
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- Microsoft bets big on a new platform subscription license
- Microsoft bets big on a new platform subscription license"rental" under a different nameHi Mary Jo, yep we've seen a number of APA pitches recently. The CRM angle looks interesting, especially for a customer who's competing Saleforce.com and Oracle's online CRM. The APA generally works out well if you're...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Advertising & Promotion, APA, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-17
- Salesforce stacks the cloud to ease operations [video]
- ZDNet Senior Editor Sam Diaz shares his views on Saleforce.com’s cloud strategy. He says its new upgrade, Summer '09, is helping customers be more flexible by adding real-time features. [video=301697] by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Video, Corporate Communications, Sales Force Management, Strategy, Marketing, Sales, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-15
- Salesforce stacks the cloud to ease operations
- ZDNet Senior Editor Sam Diaz shares his views on Saleforce.com's cloud strategy. He says its new upgrade, Summer '09, is helping customers be more flexible by adding real-time features.
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Strategy, Sales, Management, Salesforce.com, Twitter, CRM
- Videos 2009-05-14
- NetSuite aims to connect to Salesforce.com's cloud
- NetSuite on Thursday announced a set of connectors from third party developers that will hook up its enterprise planning software suite with Salesforce.com's CRM apps. The idea: Allow Salesforce.com customers to integrate NetSuite applications into their arsenal of software as a service applications. The effort is dubbed SuiteCloud...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, NetSuite Inc., Zach Nelson, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Sales Force Management, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-02
- Salesforce app offers reminder that Twitter needs a revenue plan
- Salesforce app offers reminder that Twitter needs a revenue planBarriers to entry are falling away.When they go they can allow upstarts like Google (circa 2002) to beat giants like MS and Yahoo. It can also allow giants like Saleforce to use upstarts like twitter for free. It is no longer...
- Tags: Sales force management, revenue plan, Twitter, Salesforce.com Inc., revenue
- Discussion threads 2009-03-26
- Oracle puts Salesforce.com in its sights
- Oracle's fiscal second quarter conference call was interesting on a couple of fronts. Here are a few observations: No. 1: Oracle has a new whipping boy: Salesforce.com. Check out CEO Larry Ellison's comments about Salesforce.com, which totaled eight mentions (not quite SAP territory,...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Oracle Corp., Larry Ellison, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-19
- SugarCRM wants to be the Linux of the CRM world
- SugarCRM wants to be the Linux of the CRM worldIt's all about open customisationBoth SugarCRM and Saleforce are excellent products. The real benefit of SugarCRM however, is the open nature of the software. All companies are different and being able to easily bend your CRM solution to suit your business...
- Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise software, SugarCRM, CRM, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-11-06
- Dell and Salesforce.com: So cozy they could merge (someday)
- Dell and Salesforce.com: So cozy they could merge somedayIndeed, not as mad as it soundsThis actually makes a lot of sense. That is, if Google doesn't snap up SFDC first.Ian HendryCEO, WeCanDo.BIZhttp://www.wecando.bizRE: Dell and Salesforce.com: So cozy they could merge somedayWell Dell and Oracle has a "strategic alliance" and...
- Tags: Sales force management, Dell Computer Corp., Salesforce.com Inc., Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Mozilla taps crowd for concepts: Will the browser usurp the OS?
- Mozilla taps crowd for concepts: Will the browser usurp the OS?1997 called. It wants its article backAs a reader of News.com and ZDNet for years and years, I had to laugh when I saw the headline for this one. Sounds familiar, except it would have been about Netscape.Next maybe you...
- Tags: Operating systems, Web browsers, Desktops, operating system, Web browser, desktop, Mozilla Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-06
- Eclipse Foundation delivers Ganymede train with 23 cars, but where are the cloud on-ramps?
- Eclipse Foundation delivers Ganymede train with 23 cars, but where are the cloud on-ramps?Saleforce cloud has an on-rampEclipse-based and it got "deploy to cloud" http://wiki.apexdevnet.com/index.php/Force.com_IDEReally need something like this to work across a multi-cloud deployment though.RE: Eclipse Foundation delivers Ganymede train with 23 cars, but where are the cloud on-ramps?Where's...
- Tags: Java development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Eclipse, Ganymede, Eclipse Foundation
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- 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
- Microsoft CRM Online Hunts Salesforce.com
- The official GA release of Microsoft's CRM Online offering is next week, and with it comes a new chapter in the life of Salesforce.com. To date Salesforce.com has lacked a major competitor that could be seen as a worthy opponent in terms of overall size, price, functionality, and marketing chops....
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., On-demand, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft CRM, CRM, Microsoft CRM Online, Sales Force Management, Enterprise Software, Sales, Software, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- Google and Salesforce.com: still not a done deal
- In all the excitement around the Google and Salesforce.com tie up, an email turned up from Sridhar Vembu, Zoho's CEO. He claims that Salesforce.com is operating a 1990's business model and that the partnership will end in tears. Why should this matter? Salesforce.com has clearly put a...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Cloud, Vembu, InfoStreet, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Google and Salesforce.com: Why don't they merge?
- Google and Salesforce.com: Why don't they merge?There are compelling arguments in favor ...as I speculated last year during all the chatter in the run-up to the original announcement of Salesforce's alliance with Google:http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=334But would Google be willing to pay so much? (it would have to be quite a bit more...
- Tags: Sales force management, Google Inc., Salesforce.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-14
- Making cash with SaaS and Web 2.0
- Ever wondered why so many Web 2.0 or SaaS offerings are free or bundled? It's because the vendors can't work out how to bill for them. Don't believe me? Here are some real-life examples: A monitoring vendor that switched a $10,000-a-year data extraction option to free because...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Web, Software-as-a-service, Web 2.0, Billing, On-demand, Aria Systems Inc., Zuora, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- Microsoft-Yahoo! combination could yield an Orwellian Web world
- About 10 years ago, we used to ask Jim Barksdale, then head of Netscape, a stock question during news conferences. Did you bag any "default browser" deals lately? Inevitably Jim would demur and say they were still trying. Those were the days when the light was swiftly...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Yahoo! Inc., Fact, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Channel Management, Internet, Web Browsers, Authentication/Encryption, Microsoft Windows, Marketing, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-02-04
- Does Web 2.0 Need IT?
- One of the hot topics here at the Web 2.0 Conference and Expo was whether computing resources will remain in the enterprise or migrate into the network. So called “Cloud Computing†has garnered much interest with some folk arguing that Web 2.0 somehow changes the paradigm and erases the...
- Tags: Business Services, Dave Greenfield, Information Technology, Internet, Management, Organization, Service Provider, Strategy, Web, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- Leapfrogging Dell, Everdream and salesforce.com
- Fellow ZDNet blogger Josh Greenbaum is not a fan of salesforce.com. He believes the company is over-hyped, egomanical and expensive for partners. In contrast, Everdream, recently acquired by Dell, is a model SaaS company for partners, he said. In his recent blog post Josh wrote: .....I believe...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Dell Computer Corp., Partnership, Platform, Everdream Corp., Josh Greenbaum, Sales Force Management, Business Structures, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales, Finance, Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
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