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- Cloud definitions and economics
- Like Phil Wainewright, I attended the excellent CloudCamp in London several weeks back. Unlike Phil, I walked away with more questions than answers but with my enterprisey antenna on high alert. Two things struck me. Rhys Jones of Royal Bank of Scotland's assertion that while cloud computing...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., PeopleSoft Inc., James, Cloud Computing, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- Salesforce.com: Recession resistant or just late to the pain?
- On the surface, Salesforce.com's third quarter was impressive. The company hit or exceeded its targets and noted that its "value proposition" was resonating among enterprise software buyers. But worries abound under the surface. Salesforce.com reported income of $10.1 million, or 8 cents per share, on revenue of...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Recession, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- News to know: Dell; Army bans USB drives; Salesforce; Microsoft
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Cost cutting pays off for Dell; IT spending, demand 'challenging' Sam Diaz: Salesforce bucks trend for Q3; shares rising. Unsealed court filing: HP's Hurd...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp., USB Flash Drive, Internet, Open Source
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Salesforce bucks trend for Q3; shares rising.
- updated: At a time when companies are issuing warnings about missing earnings targets and scaling back expectations, enterprise cloud computing company salesforce.com seems to be bucking the trend. After the bell, Salesforce.com reported income of $10.1 million, or 8 cents per share, on revenue of $276.5 million...
- Tags: Revenue, Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Enterprise Software, Quarter, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Finance, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- SugarCRM wants to be the Linux of the CRM world
- SugarCRM seems to be doing quite well, at least well enough to rankle its larger competitor Salesforce. John Roberts, the CEO of SugarCRM says Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce wasn't too pleased when he found out SugarCRM was hosting its user conference at the Marriott, just a few yards...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Linux, Mr., SugarCRM, CRM, Site License, IPO, Sales Force Management, Financial Planning, Investment, Financial Services, Sales, Finance, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Software as a service: It should be the best of times, but it isn't
- It's a big week for the software as a service industry: Salesforce.com is establishing itself as a leading cloud computing provider, NetSuite is planning to take on SAP head on and Success Factors is upping its outlook. But underneath the surface there are more than a few questions marks lurking....
- Tags: Software, Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, SuccessFactors Inc., NetSuite Inc., Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales Force Management, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- News to know: FCC oks white spaces; Firefox; Dell; Adobe patch
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Obama wins: CBS News: Election Webcast Techmeme: FCC approves plan to approve white spaces for broadband use Joe Brockmeier: Vote Firefox! Mozilla passes 20%...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., FCC, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Software, Sales, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Salesforce mashes up the cloud so you don't have to
- Salesforce mashes up the cloud so you don't have tofacebook large userbaseFacebook's user base really is massive -- Mark Business
- Tags: Sales force management, Salesforce.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-04
- Salesforce mashes up the cloud so you don't have to
- Force.com now comes with built-in integration to three other major cloud platforms: Google Apps, Amazon Web Services and Facebook. The strategy positions Force.com as the optimal gateway to access Web resources when developing to the Web-as-platform. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Cloud Computing, Strategy, Management, Phil Wainewright, Facebook, Marc Benioff, Platform, Amazon.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- Dell at Dreamforce: Brave the economy or prepare for the rebound?
- Michael Dell, the founder and CEO of Dell Inc., made an interesting observation during a brief appearance on the main stage at the Dreamforce conference. Today's headlines tell us that, around the globe, things are slowing down – the economy, IT spending, investments in new technology and so on. But...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Dreamforce, Sales Force Management, Software As A Service (SaaS), Corporate Communications, Sales, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- Salesforce to partner with Facebook
- At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com, and Steve Fisher, senior vice president of the platform division at Salesforce, demonstrate a recruiting program made possible by making Force.com's platform compatible with Facebook. When it comes to things like job recommendations, social networks are...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Facebook, Sales Force Management, Sales, software, platforms, SaaS, cloud, computing, compatible, applications, Dreamforce
- Videos 2008-11-04
- SaaS battlegrounds: Salesforce v Zoho
- SaaS battlegrounds: Salesforce v ZohoRe: Love of lock-inIt is not really up to Benioff anymore - though he would love to lock users in. The web is the real platform today. Initiatives like Google's single sign-on (truly open - in the sense competition is allowed to play) are where the...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Sales force management, cloud computing, Zoho, SaaS battleground, Salesforce.com Inc., battleground, software-as-a-service
- Discussion threads 2008-11-04
- SaaS battlegrounds: Salesforce v Zoho
- When Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff put on his jocular performance for the analysts and press at Dreamforce yesterday, I'm sure he didn't expect little ol' Zoho to come bite him in the pants. That's exactly what's happened. According to Venture Beat's Anthony Ha: Salesforce.com's strategy can...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Marc Benioff, Zoho, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- News to know: E-voting security; Salesforce.com; NetSuite; SAP; Microsoft
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: Linux: The Joe Sixpack Strategy Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Big Brains: Brad Lovering Microsoft confirms MinWin is in Windows 7, after all...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Security, Facebook, Larry Dignan, NetSuite Inc., SAP AG, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., E-voting, Sales Force Management, Data Centers, Government, Sales, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- Dreamforce: Salesforce and Facebook [podcast]
- Salesforce.com announced a data sharing partnership with Facebook today. Only time will reveal whether it's a marriage made in heaven or an example of what happens when worlds collide. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Facebook, Sales Force Management, Podcasts, Business Structures, Sales, Internet, Finance, Michael Krigsman, Marc Benioff
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- Benioff launches Sites [video]
- 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., Video, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- 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
- Facebook, Salesforce.com aim to create common developer network
- Facebook, Salesforce.com aim to create common developer networkSocial meets CRM...This move should be applauded and will lead to many creative and useful solutions. Kudos for both companies in moving in this direction.www.iangilyeat.comRE: Facebook, Salesforce.com aim to create common developer networkSaesforce has 100,000 developers? They don't have 50 developers.-- go...
- Tags: Sales force management, B2B, Salesforce.com Inc., Facebook, common developer network, developer network
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- Salesforce partners with Facebook, Amazon to spark more app development
- Salesforce partners with Facebook, Amazon to spark more app developmentGreat potential hereI think there is a lot of potential in tying these platforms together, particularly when you start to get the Social platforms involved.More on my Smoothspan blog:http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/customer-relationship-experience-the-strategy-behind-salesforce-sites/RE: Salesforce partners with Facebook, Amazon to spark more app developmentThe smashing together...
- Tags: Sales force management, B2B, Salesforce.com Inc., Facebook, app development, Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- Salesforce partners with Facebook, Amazon to spark more app development
- Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff doesn't think companies should be worrying about things like servers and security, software updates and web hosting. In a keynote speech at the company's Dreamforce conference today, he explained that those sort of things are what he and his company should be worrying about. Instead, companies...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Job, Facebook, Sales Force, Amazon.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
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