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It's IT Blogwatch: in which it's rumored that Salesforce.com is asking Oracle to buy it. Not to mention the real story behind Pacman... Tom Foremski reports:I'm hearing from a reliable source that...
View ArticleGoogle vs. Salesforce.com?
In the battle for IT to adopt an Internet-based application "platform," the real struggle may be between Google and Salesforce.com
View ArticleSaaS: The early years
We're still in the early days of SaaS adoption, a survey of 100 CIOs indicates. But prospects look good for the future, though the smaller vendors are likely to be gobbled up by bigger vendors.
View ArticleStorm ahead for cloud computing
Speaking at EmTech08 this week, Parker Harris, executive vice president, technology for Salesforce.com, minced no words about the high stakes involved as cloud computing takes off.
View ArticleSalesforce should pay for your data
Many SaaS providers retain rights to the data their systems collect while you use their systems. You should get paid for it.
View ArticleSalesforce.com touts doubtful Twitter tool
Monitoring tweets on Twitter through Salesforce.com sounds like a good idea to marketers, but it's likely to create new problems for help desk managers.
View ArticleSaaS, the cloud, and the enlightened CTO
You can’t spend more than five minutes on the Internet these days without bumping into the term Software as a Service (SaaS). As software licensing gets more expensive and budgetary belt-tightening...
View ArticleYamaha signs up with SaaS
Yamaha Corporation of America uses a third-party electronic signature with its Salesforce.com service to manage contracts and other paperwork. The SaaS tool has eliminated loads of paper and...
View ArticleChatting from Salesforce's Cloudforce event
Yesterday I attended salesforce.com's "Cloudforce" event for the official launch of "Chatter," their new social networking functionality for the enterprise. Chatter moves collaboration from the...
View ArticleLearning from an audience of cloudsourcing candidates
Joining us for our discussion on the "path to cloudsourcing" last week was an audience of 80 IT decision makers and influencers interested in cloudsourcing. Our interaction with these cloudsourcing...
View ArticleSalesforce.com Chatter Mobile soon: iPhone, iPad, Android, RIM
Salesforce.com is readying a mobile app version of its business social networking and collaboration tool, Chatter. It'll soon be available for iPhone, iPad, Android, and RIM BlackBerry devices. In IT...
View ArticleMicrosoft takes off the kid gloves in the battle for the cloud
Microsoft showed today just how serious it is about dominating cloud services, paying companies $150 per seat to switch to its cloud-based Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, and launching a cutting,...
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Larry Ellison rages on Salesforce.com in keynote war
Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) CEO Larry Ellison has hit back at Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) and its CEO, Marc Benioff. It's the latest salvo in the war of words between the companies, following Benioff's public...
View ArticleSalesforce CEO
Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) CEO Marc Benioff says enterprise software should be more like Facebook. Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit, he said social media features are cruicial, but couldn't be goaded into...
View ArticleSalesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff targets teen-girl market?
Is Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) CEO Marc Benioff aiming at a new market: teenage girls? One might think so, given his Hunger Games soundbite yesterday. In fact what he pre-announced were new features...
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