On the heels of yesterday's price cut for a number of Microsoft-hosted enterprise cloud service offerings, the company is introducing a "free for six months" deal, in the hopes of attracting Salesforce.com and Oracle CRM On Demand users. by Mary Jo Foley
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...
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...
Dell and Salesforce.com said Monday that they will team up to target small and mid-sized businesses. The announcement, which coincides with Oracle's OpenWorld, goes like this: The companies will launch certified Dell-Salesforce.com customer relationship management bundles via the cloud. Pricing will start at...
Back in 1999, I was a salesforce.com user and at that time, it was a rather kludgy sales force automation application that didn't do much right - for example if I tried to export a .CSV file it gave me an .XLS file and vice versa.  I read something by Marc...
Salesforce.com and CODA (via its parent Unit 4 Agresso) are hooking up to create FinancialForce.com. While financial details of the arrangement were not revealed, Salesforce.com is a minority stakeholder in the new company. From the blurbs: The CODA 2go team and products have transferred to FinancialForce.com, which will...
Salesforce on Wednesday will announce an upgrade to the Service Cloud offering it unveiled back in January, incorporating enhancements to its social networking tools and announcing plans for the rollout of a Knowledge-as-a-Service offering and crowd-sourcing Answers product. The company boasts that it has been growing at...
Is WebEx a sinking vessel? The Cisco insider brought in to captain the web collaboration business after acquisition has just jumped ship to embark on a new career with Salesforce.com. by Phil Wainewright
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...
Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Apple adds malware blocker in Snow Leopard Jason D. O'Grady: Apple removed blood stains from Snow...
In recent quarters Oracle has been taking aim at Salesforce.com, noting that its Siebel On Demand was poaching customers. On Thursday it was Salesforce's turn to return fire. Following Salesforce's fiscal second quarter earnings, CEO Marc Benioff, as chatty as ever, took aim at his trash talking...
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Apple's future TV: Can Web-based apps replace "channels," kill cable? DOJ gives blessing to Oracle-Sun, awaiting EC...
Salesforce.com delivered strong second quarter results and upped its financial targets for fiscal 2010. The company on Thursday reported net income of $21.2 million, or 17 cents a share, on revenue of $316 million, up 20 percent from a year ago. Wall Street was expecting earnings of...
Google has rolled out a connector for Salesforce.com data as it adds features to its enterprise Google Search Appliance. In a blog post, Google said it has added a connector so internal Salesforce.com data can be searched via its appliance. Connectors are used to integrate data from...
Practice Fusion said Salesforce.com has taken a minority stake in the company, added an executive to its board, and will roll out its online patient health record on the system as early as this fall. by Dana Blankenhorn
Monster Technologies, a division of Monster Worldwide. Inc., provides technical service and support for the Monster brand. Monster Worldwide offers online employment services and solutions through its family of Internet properties. Monster Technologies' L&F group has been using salesforce.com for several years as its sales force automation platform for Customer...
While attending Fortune's Brainstorm event, several of us took the opportunity to sit down with Parker Harris, Salesforce.com co-founder and EVP technology. To say it was our first outing as Irregulars with the company, Parker was remarkably open and congenial, often straying into territory that would otherwise drive hyper controlling...
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....
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...
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...