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...
If one is a developer or a company that builds Software-as-a-Service SaaS applications, the AppExchange lets one reach thousands of potential customers and benefit from salesforce.com's reach and resources. One can make any applications one creates available on the AppExchange for free. If one is a customer, one can use...
Software as a service has turned into platform as a service (as if we needed another "aaS") and as this application battle royale gets underway developers need to think about these efforts in terms of audience. For instance, Bill Appleton, CTO of DreamFactory, which makes cloudware--rich Internet...
What Salesforce.com and WebEx have always talked about doing with their PaaS platforms, Intuit is now doing with QuickBase -- and with a much bigger developer ecosystem. by Phil Wainewright
Is 2008 the year the telcos crack SaaS?Telcos Being Behind the Curve Worries MeDoes it worry anyone else that the Telcos, the underlying architecture of the Internet is so being the curve when it comes to emerging trends in technologies.The are so burdened by their traditional way of thinking they...
Dan Farber’s rebuttal to my most recent post on Salesforce.com seems to miss the main point of my blog, and instead goes into an extensive discussion about a broader comparison between the two companies than I ever intended to make. I never claimed that the two...
Appexchange a bust?AppExchange/Force is a BustThe word I get on the street is that Dreamforce was exciting, but AppExchange, now Force, is a bust. It is seen as having improved only incrementally with VisualForce, and most people I talk to want to believe that there is substance in something...
Microsoft partners wondering in the wake of last week's Worldwide Partner Conference how they'll adapt to the vendor's evolving 'Software plus Services' strategy may be enheartened by the experiences of some leading Saleforce.com partners. It seems that the SaaS model really does make it easier to create reusable code, which...
Appirio's eat-your-own-dogfood SaaS integrationAppExchange is doomed says eCommerce TimesI read an article on EETimes that shows why AppExchange is doomed to fail. The real hope for the industry appears to come from consolidated suites from the likes of Netsuite and BizAutomationAppExchange is doomed says eCommerce TimesI read an article on...
Perhaps Google will buy Salesforce.com after allNetsuite might be a bargainRather than paying a premium for SF.com, Netsuite could be picked up for a song.GoogleForcePhil:Nice analysis. Google is putting a ton of effort into enterprise sales - but as you noted - it is all ad sales. Applications...
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,...
After last months AppExchange announcements, I thought it might be a good moment to try and take stock of Salesforce.coms application platform and how well or otherwise its been doing. Some observers, such as ZDNet blogger Joshua Greenbaum, suspect that AppExchange is all hype and no revenue. At the opposite...
CEO discusses "developing software as a service"At Software 2007 in Santa Clara, Calif., Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and vice president of developer marketing, Adam Gross, show off the company's AppExchange platform. The technology enables users to build, run and sell enterprise applications on-demand.
As promised, salesforce.com is unbundling its Apex development platform from its CRM suite of applications. With the new Salesforce Platform Edition, developers can build and deploy applications independent of salesforce.com’s CRM applications. The company expects to have applications in new categories, such as ERP, ecommerce, financial services, human resources...
Thank you Salesforce.com. Your acquisition of AppExchange partner Koral will certainly liven up the keynote discussion Ill be moderating at next weeks SaaScon show in Santa Clara, CA, entitled Understanding SaaS Platforms and Ecosystems. Im sure panelist Rene Bonvanie, general manager of AppExchange and developer relations will face some...
Racing for The Cliff -- Salesforce.com and The Looming Competitive MarketIt's all quite insaneI've used them all. Salesforce, Siebel, Oracle and they all suffer from trying to be all things to all companies. Apps that fit your workflow can be pretty simple. Complexity leads to feature bloat,...
Financial results from on-demand collaboration vendor WebEx got a warm welcome yesterday on Wall St, which bid up the stock price 21% over the course of the day. The reaction was probably down to simple financial metrics: WebEx maintained its growth momentum, increased its operating margins and said it expected...
Weve got some video that goes with this post. The text below covers ground thats not covered in the video. But if you want to go straight to the video anyway, click here.By now, youve probably heard about AppExchange and APEX; two salesforce.com initiatives that are designed to take the...
In 2000, Salesforce.com started selling a basic CRM solution delivered via the Internet. The company was swimming against the tide. Businesses, especially large enterprises, werent disposed to giving up control of their applications and infrastructure to a startup with outspoken and sometimes bombastic CEO Marc Benioff, who proclaimed the "end...
Cognos joins AppExchange but isn't going SaaSCelequest/Cognos SAAS vs LucideraI read with amusement Ken's comments on our SaaS offering and acquisition by Cognos. His comments are particularly rich coming from a company whose products have been in beta for ever. Perhaps you should speak with the salesforce.com folks...
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