Salesforce.com announced the recent expansion of its social enterprise cloud platform with the acquisition of Rypple, a provider of a social performance management app. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed but the company said Rypple will be rebranded “Successforce” and integrated [...]
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For a decade now, Marc Benioff had to deal with the comments that his company Salesforce.com had been fired with. Recently, however, Salesforce received a sincere flattery from its rivals when most of these companies started to acquire more firms to set up their own cloud platform, which is [...]
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Yesterday Salesforce.com, the software-as-a-service provider, agreed to purchase consulting services concern and partner Model Metrics for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition is inline with the company’s goals for padding its mobile, social and cloud-computing portfolio.
Model Metrics advises companies [...]
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Oracle said it plans to buy online customer service company RightNow Technologies for approximately $1.5 billion. The world’s second- largest software maker is looking to add software that helps companies serve customers using call centers, Internet [...]
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Oracle Open World is scheduled to host another much awaited event, the CRM Pavilion. Back by popular demand; this event will have participants from carefully selected group of partners from ISVs (independent software vendors) and Sis (system integration). The group will be chosen according to the relevance [...]
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Cloud Computing Providers Challenged to Dispel Security Concerns
By Arjan de Jong, Marketing Manager, Jitscale
The adoption of cloud computing services has been swift for both large and small companies and satisfaction with cloud computing is very high, according to a [...]
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TweetSalesforce.com is the recognized 800-pound gorilla in cloud CRM software. However, while they may own “CRM” on the stock exchange, they do not own the market. Salesforce’s tool is fairly intuitive with deep Sales Force Automation (SFA) functionality. It should definitely make your shortlist, but what other [...]
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An ERP system is an all encompassing software system that touches (read – integrates) all the business functions of an organization. Integration is the keyword, and removing silos is the objective.
The very first ERP systems were mainframe based, and were quickly discarded around the turn [...]
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Some business people often require assistance from IT professionals or third party system integrators due to their limited ability to make modifications that incorporate their sales process and methodology. There are also potential users that are not well-versed in SaaS program applications.
As the [...]
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Some JavaScript developers are already using the open source application Cloud9 IDE, powered by the Ajax.org platform and make use of HTML5, node.js, socket.io, among others.
With the quest to be more efficient and productive, BrainEngine developed the first true cross-platform IDE [...]
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Salesforce announced it is acquiring social media monitoring platform Radian6 for $276 million in cash and $50 million in stock. The transaction is set to be completed by July 31, 2011, subject to certain terms and conditions. This acquisition represents a huge opportunity for [...]
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Hewlett-Packard is trying to compete directly with Amazon.com Inc. and Salesforce.com Inc. by leveraging its large manufacturing base and experience with servers and computers to build a new “cloud” service.
HP has been largely absent from the newest [...]
Salesforce.com commissioned a study with WSP Environment & Energy, and found that customers of salesforce.com’s cloud computing services produce 95 percent less carbon, on average, compared with companies using other equivalent software in on-premise application servers.
The study also showed that multitenant cloud platforms are [...]
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The Cloudforce event which starts this week on March 3 in New York, is expected to receive more than 4,000 attendees.
Cloudforce, salesforce.com’s second biggest event after Dreamforce, is a free one day event with 18 role-based breakout [...]
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The Cloud Security Alliance Summit will kick off tomorrow at 9am, with an opening keynote by salesforce.com Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff. Industry leaders including Christofer Hoff, Liam Lynch, Chief Security Strategist from Continue Reading →
On Tuesday Salesforce.com acquired Manymoon, a company co-founded in 2008 by Amit Kulkarni and Manav Mongawhich and makes social productivity apps built on Google Apps, LinkedIn and the Google Chrome Web Store. According to Manymoon, more than 50,000 businesses have adopted the tool.
Manymoon said [...]
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