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- Salesforce demos Service Cloud 2
- At Dreamforce Global Gathering 2009 in San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Kraig Swensrud, senior vice president of product marketing, show attendees the company's new customer service software, Service Cloud 2. The new tool helps businesses connect their traditional call center technologies with social media applications through a cloud...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer Service, Social Media, Product Marketing, Cloud Computing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Force Management, Virtualization, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Hardware, Service Cloud 2, Marc Benioff, Salesforce
- Videos 2009-11-18
- Salesforce CEO chatters about new social media platform
- At Dreamforce Global Gathering 2009 in San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and technology head Parker Harris show attendees Chatter, a new collaboration and social media tool built for the enterprise. Benioff says the new tool will leverage social-networking models and bring them into a secure and private cloud where...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Social Media, Marc Benioff, Salesforce, Chatter
- Videos 2009-11-18
- Will economic downturn push companies into the cloud?
- At the TechCrunch Cloud Computing Roundtable in Mountain View, Calif., Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, explains why he thinks Microsoft's entry into the business will bring validation to the cloud. Many CTOs, he says, still need to be convinced that using software as a service will save them money and...
- Tags: Cloud, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Sales Force Management, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Salesforce, cloud computing, SaaS, Benioff, Microsoft, TechCrunch, platforms
- Videos 2009-03-02
- Larry Brilliant outlines Google's giving strategies
- At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Larry Brilliant, executive director of Google.org, declares that Google ripped off Salesforce's 1/1/1 model--and the company is proud of it. The model calls for a company to give 1 percent of its time, 1 percent of its equity, and 1 percent of its...
- Tags: Strategy, Google Inc., Sales Force Management, Investment, Financial Services, Sales, Finance, Google, technology, Salesforce, Dreamforce, charity, corporate, Earth
- Videos 2008-11-05
- Benioff launches Sites
- At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com, announced the company's latest venture. With Force.com Sites, customers can build, host, and allow individual users to customize a public Web page using Force.com technologies. Along with Parker Harris, Salesforce co-founder and executive vice president of...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Dreamforce, Salesforce, cloud computing, SaaS, Sites, website, hosting
- Videos 2008-11-03
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- The cloud computing battleground takes shape. Will it be winner-take-all?
- This year has been one of relatively grand alliances between emerging cloud computing vendors as they fill holes in their capabilities and try to create appealing one-stop enterprise cloud services. We’ve seen major announcements so far from IBM and Juniper, Cisco/EMC/VMware, and most recently BMC and Salesforce....
- Tags: Cloud Computing Battleground, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-11-24
- Fawning over Chatter and how SAP missed its chance
- Chitter chatter over Salesforce.com Chatter is becoming almost hysterical. Is the hoopla worth the attention or is it a game changer? by Dennis Howlett
- Tags: SAP AG, Games, Sales Force Management, Personal Technology, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-11-23
- Chatting (Not Chattering) About Salesforce - Part I
- (NOTE BEFORE I START: This is one really long post. So rather than post it in all its glory in a single file or post it here over two days, I'm trying something new. I'm posting the first half here. And the second half on PGreenblog. Â Let's see how that...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer Service, Twitter Inc., Sales Force, Customer, CRM, Integration, Force.com, Service Cloud 2, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-11-23
- Taming the Chatter cloud
- To prove meaningful in the enterprise, Salesforce.com Chatter is not only going to have to be upfront about its social capabilities but is also going to have to come with tools that help deliver business value. That could prove a tough nut to crack. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Nut, Sales Force Management, Productivity, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-11-21
- Salesforce.com plays Google ad sales game: Big tease? Big letdown!
- Google AdwordsI've used Google Adwords frequently and I do know that there is a learning curve involved. I've often said that Google represents the ultimate in convenience but their Adwords program does not function with the same ethos. It's not an easy tool to figure out and definitely requires a...
- Tags: E-mail, Sales force management, game, Salesforce.com Inc., sales, Google AdWords, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
- Conference energy levels
- Coming to Dreamforce has been a revelation. The news was dominated by Chatter but that only tells a fraction of the real story. As I sat in the media room chatting sic to an old buddy it occurred to me this was a conference that annoyed for all...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Event, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Sales Force Management, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-11-20
- Guerilla Marketing @ Dreamforce
- Leave the trade show booth behind and get creative. The guerilla marketing at technology shows can be entertaining, memorable and maybe even profitable. Done right, it makes a bigger impact than any brochure, newsletter or keychain giveaway. Look at what SugarCRM did at the Salesforce show! by Brian Sommer
- Tags: Corporate Communications, Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Marketing, Sales, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-11-19
- Hello Salesforce Chatter, so long Yammer?
- Salesforce Chatter brings trusted collaboration and social networking to enterprises. Is it bye-bye time for competitors? by Jennifer Leggio
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-11-19
- Dreamforce post#2: Chatter, Events, REA and the Future of Management
- Don't think of Salesforce's Chatter as bunch of social networking techologies for business people to use. If you do, you've missed the real potential for businesses to operate in real-time. by Brian Sommer
- Tags: Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-11-19
- Chatter: Amplified
- Last evening, fellow ZDNet'ers Mike Krigsman, Dion Hinchcliffe, Tom Foremski, Brian Sommer along with fellow Enterprise Advocate Vinnie Mirchandani and I sat down with Parker Harris, co-founder Salesforce.com to get a deep dive into the rationale behind Chatter, what it's really about and where it's going. ...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-11-19
- News to know: Dreamforce, Chatter; AT&T-Verizon; Sony e-reader; ChromeOS; Office 2010
- The opening of Dreamforce, the announcement of Salesforce Chatter and a judge's ruling on AT&T and Verizon's map spat are the top headlines by Sam Diaz
- Tags: E-reader, Sony Corp., Microsoft Office, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-11-19
- Salesforce Chatter: what a clanger!
- Spot OnThis Chatter thing is just a manifestation of a bigger thing going on in business at the moment - the escape from reality into a child-like world of 'consumers' - or more accurately, the idea of business people behaving in the same mindless way on the Web that characterises...
- Tags: Sales force management, Salesforce.com Inc., Salesforce Chatter
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- Salesforce kicks off Dreamforce, announces Chatter
- Salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics or ACTall three are greatposted October 21, 2009 ?Karleton Helfer was consistently one of our top producers. Karleton received numerous production and achievement awards, and frequently led the business unit in total sales. Karleton took a very strategic approach to the sales process, always researching technology developments,...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Salesforce.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Salesforce Chatter: Something to talk about
- My take on Salesforce.com's new enterprise-level social networking platform, called Chatter, which was inspired by Twitter and Facebook. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Social Networking, Sales Force Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Sales, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- Salesforce Chatter: Social operating systems emerge on the IT stage
- It's a StartWhile I think this is a harbinger of things to come, and salesforce.com seems to be the closest thing to a real platform to support this kind of functionality, I don't know a single salesperson who wants to spend more than 3 minutes a week on salesforce.com.Since many...
- Tags: Sales force management, information technology, Salesforce.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
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