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- Demo'ing Google apps on Salesforce
- Here’s how it looks when Google applications Gmail, Docs, Talk, and Calendar operate on the Salesforce platform. The two companies announced a joint cloud computing venture at a press event in San Francisco on Monday, April 14, 2008.
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Google Apps, Cloud Computing, Sales Force Management, Google, Salesforce.com
- Videos 2008-04-28
- Images: Salesforce.com's Visualforce
- Salesforce.com is rolling out Force.com an on-demand platform. The biggest component is Visualforce, a service that allows customers to customize the user interface. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., On-demand, Larry Dignan, Salesforce.com, SAAS, user interface, ERP, CRM
- Image galleries 2007-09-13
- Extending SalesForce.com and SOA with rich internet applications
- The team at Nitobi have been working on a contact management application that's built in Adobe AIR and hooks into the SalesForce.com API. They did it to show off some of their components but the actual demo is a good example of where rich internet applications can really start to...
- Tags: Salesforce.com, Rich Internet Applications, Rich Enterprise Applications, Ajax, AIR
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Salesforce.com transitions to platform as a service
- Salesforce.com plans to make its Apex Code available in general release next month, completing its transition from an on demand CRM application platform to a more generalized on demand software development platform.In fact, with the forthcoming Summer ‘07 release, salesforce.com now describes itself as a the "world's platform-as-a-service," complete with...
- Tags: Web Technology, SaaS, Salesforce.com, Enterprise 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- Microsoft CRM Live: still a lot to learn
- Undercutting Salesforce.com is an obvious ploy for Microsoft to attempt with its CRM Live product, so the pricing it announced today shouldn't come as any big surprise. Salesforce.com has always priced at the high end of what it could get away with, and it's benefitted from five years of being...
- Tags: Salesforce.com, Microsoft, Ecosystems, CRM, Business models
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- Salesforce.com's servers take weekend holiday
- Charlie Wood runs Spanning Salesforce, a small company that provides a way to track salesforce information using RSS. He recently blogged about receiving a notice from salesforce.com about scheduled maintenance that shut down his access to salesforce.com for six hours, from 8 PM PDT to 2 AM PDT tonight.I get...
- Tags: Salesforce.com, IT Management, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-08
- Salesforce and Google: Bringing two platforms together
- Preceded by flashing colored lights and a brief video about the business Web, salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff took the stage during a luncheon press conference to announce the alliance with Google around AdWord integrations, which I covered in this post. The only news of the day was Benioff announcing that...
- Tags: Salesforce.com, Google, Enterprise 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-06-05
- Salesforce unveils its Google alliance
- I'm blogging this while listening to this morning's conference call. The news is exciting for small businesses who want to do a better job of harnessing Google AdWords as part of their sales process. But it'll be a disappointment to those industry observers who were expecting something to challenge Microsoft's...
- Tags: Salesforce.com, Google
- Blog posts 2007-06-05
- Salesforce.com and Google team up on AdWords--that's all
- The salesforce.com and Google partnership turned out to be not a grand alliance or acquisition pitting the two companies against Microsoft, but a refinement of the AdWords campaign management software that salesforce.com acquired from Keiden Corp. in 2006. Salesforce.com can sell more CRM subscriptions and Google can increase its...
- Tags: Web Technology, Salesforce.com, SaaS, Google, E-commerce
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- Salesforce.com and Google more than just partners?
- Mike Arrington of TechCrunch offers his chessboard logic as to why salesforce.com is acquisition bait and reasons that the company is a good fit for being absorbed by Google. Phil Wainwright also played out the salesforce/Google union logic in this post, and found that the two companies would are very...
- Tags: Web Technology, Salesforce.com, Office 2.0, Google, Enterprise 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- Google, Salesforce.com partnership on for June 5?
- That Google-Salesforce.com partnership reported last week looks like it's set for June 5.Salesforce.com says it will be holding a press conference with a "leading Internet company based in the Bay Are." Gee who could that be?Here's the press announcement:Salesforce.com and a leading Internet company based in the Bay Area will...
- Tags: General, Google, Salesforce.com
- Blog posts 2007-05-29
- Perhaps Google will buy Salesforce.com after all
- My starting point is that I want to be skeptical about the rumors of a potential alliance between Google and Salesforce.com. Remember last September's alliance of Intuit and Google?. Did that go anywhere? Hell no, despite some characteristically idle speculation last month from Nick Carr that Google should buy Intuit....
- Tags: Google, Salesforce.com
- Blog posts 2007-05-22
- Salesforce.com partnership will gauge Google's software commitment
- Will a Google partnership with Salesforce.com yield a software combination with staying power?If so maybe a real threat to Microsoft could emerge. Dan Farber noted the two could be a 21st century applications platform. But the devil will be in the details.On Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported the two...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, Salesforce.com, SaaS, Google, Enterprise 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-05-22
- Self-service SOA, the Salesforce way
- The convergence of SOA and SaaS continues apace. Yesterday Salesforce.com announced Salesforce SOA, an add-on to its Apex development environment that allows users to access external web services — anything from an RSS feed to a full-on SOAP stream from an enterprise application.I have to say this is neither revolutionary...
- Tags: Salesforce.com, Integration, Development
- Blog posts 2007-05-22
- Salesforce and Google alliance in the works
- The Wall Street Journal is reporting on a forthcoming alliance between salesforce.com and Google to integrate Google's online services, such as email and IM, with the salesforce platform. It wouldn't be much of a surprise given that salesforce.com has become a platform company that enables integration of Web services...
- Tags: Salesforce.com, Google, General, Enterprise 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- Salesforce.com adds ability to consume Web services in Apex
- With his typical heralding of the end of software , salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff now says that his company is bringing the "end of software to SOA" and removing "the barriers of software infrastructure that have been imposed by SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft."Beyond the rhetoric and snipping at competitors,...
- Tags: Web Technology, Salesforce.com, SaaS, IT Management, General, Enterprise 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-05-20
- Salesforce.com: Is subscriber growth slowing?
- Salesforce.com decided last quarter that it won't disclose quarterly subscriber totals. But that move only raises more questions. In many respects, Salesforce.com's first quarter was very typical. The company reported a profit of a penny a share and revenue of $162.4 million. It also upped its outlook and touted a...
- Tags: SaaS, Salesforce.com, Software Infrastructure
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- How is AppExchange really doing?
- 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...
- Tags: CRM, Ecosystems, Marketplaces, Salesforce.com
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- Salesforce.com: What's the chocolate budget?
- Salesforce.coms sales and marketing budget has surged to $252.9 million for the fiscal year ending Jan. 31, up from $149.6 million the prior year, and I think I know why: Shipping, printing costs and chocolate. Salesforce.com sends a lot of chocolate to...
- Tags: Salesforce.com, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- Salesforce.com unbundles Apex platform from CRM apps
- 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...
- Tags: General, Web Technology, Salesforce.com, SaaS, IT Management
- Blog posts 2007-04-22
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