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- Superwoman flies with Salesforce.com's Sites
- Financial services group Superwoman is the first Australian company to pilot Salesforce.com's new Sites product. Financial services group Superwoman is the first Australian company to pilot Salesforce.com's new Sites product released overnight. Companies adopting Sites use Force.com to build a database, defining what data and...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., CRM, Sales Force Management, Sales, Salesforce.com, Superwoman, Sites, Suzanne Tindal ZDNet Australia
- News items 2009-06-16
- Salesforce opens Sites; offers free version to help push cloud adoption
- Remember when the corporate Web site consisted of mostly static Web pages: a home page, a handful of pages about the company’s products or services and a place to learn more about the management team, contact sales or even find hours and directions? Times definitely have changed....
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Web, Sales Force, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-14
- CODA: why build on the Force.com platform
- While at SIIA OnDemand Europe, I met with Jeremy Roche, CEO of CODA. CODA is the first company to build a substantial accounting application on the Force.com platform called CODA2go. In this 8 minute video, Jeremy explains why the company took the decision to make...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Platform, CODA, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- John Peavoy: the best salesperson Salesforce never had
- While in Amsterdam I share a few cold ones with John Peavoy, a salesperson from Ireland who travels extensively around Europe. As we were chatting he showed me Salesforce mobile on his Blackberry. The conversation was so fascinating that I recorded it on video. Excuse the occasional loud...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Salesperson, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- Salesforce.com delivers mixed fiscal year outlook: Earnings up, revenue light
- Updated: Salesforce.com delivered a strong fiscal first quarter, but delivered a mixed outlook where it raised its earnings projections based on cost cutting yet pared its revenue forecast. Meanwhile, Salesforce.com's deferred revenue tally was lower than expected. Salesforce.com on Thursday reported fiscal first quarter earnings of $18.4...
- Tags: Revenue, Salesforce.com Inc., Quarter, Earnings, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-21
- 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
- Salesforce upgrades with case-sharing, new charts and more
- Salesforce.com on Tuesday will announce a major upgrade to its cloud offerings for the enterprise, expected to launch next month. Among them is a feature that's meant to expand sharing between salesforce.com users, the ability to share "cases" so that customers in need of support no longer have to be...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force, Headset, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-11
- 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
- Netsuite reports Q1; CEO calls growth "impressive"
- NetSuite, which makes Web-based business software, reported a first quarter net loss of $3.7 million, or 6 cents per share, on sales of $41.6 million, a 22 percent increase over the year-ago quarter. Excluding items, the company reported a first quarter profit of $1 million, or 2 cents per share....
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., NetSuite Inc., Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales Force Management, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-04
- 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 Changes Suit(e): Peaceful Coexistence
- Back in the 60s the Cold War left pushed for a solution to the U.S./Soviet ongoing conflict that they termed "peaceful coexistence." NetSuite with its last two announcements, virtually on top of each other, seems to be aimed at selective version of that very same solution -...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., NetSuite Inc., SAP AG, Sales Force Management, Sales, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-04-17
- Opening the kimono on Salesforce.com's green crystals
- Salesforce.com's chief technology guru Parker Harris, speaking at Cloudforce London this week, mapped out the secret sauce that makes the company's multi-tenancy so special. Why suddenly expose details of something it has always previously kept schtum about? by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-04-09
- 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
- Cloudforce London preview: CODA2Go
- Salesforce.com's Cloudforce comes to London tomorrow morning. One of the key announcements will be a new version of CODA2Go, veteran accounting software developer CODA's on-demand ledger suite. Two years in the making, CODA2Go demonstrates what's possible when the bulk of the 'plumbing' is already done. Tomorrow,...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Accounting, Marketing, CODA2Go, CODA, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Sales, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- 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
- I already said in an earlier post how Salesforce's introduction of a Twitter application on its business software platform validates the power of cloud computing. But what about the power of Twitter? The announcement equally validates the idea that customer service can be enhanced by short 140-character messages that anyone...
- Tags: Revenue, Salesforce.com Inc., Twitter, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Finance, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
- Salesforce announces Twitter app; further validates power of cloud
- It wasn't so long ago that Twitter was being mocked for being nothing more than a forum for people to share trivial things such as what they're eating for breakfast or what they're watching on TV. Suddenly, Twitter is getting some mainstream respect, the latest coming today in the form...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force, Twitter, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-03-22
- 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

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