At this week’s Dreamforce conference it was hard to miss the battle that was happening between Salesforce and Microsoft. On the streets outside the Moscone Center where Dreamforce was taking place, Microsoft had representatives with blue suits and blue umbrellas riding around on Segways with a big advertisement for MS Dynamics CRM Online attached to…
Earlier today, Salesforce.com announced it will buy Heroku, which develops and deploys web-based applications that rely on the programming language Ruby on Rails, for $212 million as part of its Cloud 2 suite of cloud applications. Benioff said Salesforce had made the purchase to open up its platform. “Ruby is the language of Cloud 2,”…
Salesforce.com Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Marc Benioff announced today at Dreamforce “Database.com”, a database-as-a-service product that he hopes will take business away from Oracle Corp. and Microsoft Corp., in a market Gartner estimates is worth $21.2 billion. Benioff announced Database.com to a crowd of 14,000 at the company’s annual customer meeting in San Francisco….
Below is an updated list of the latest announcements at Dreamforce: ServiceSource to Share Best Practices on Service Revenue Management at Dreamforce 2010 ServiceSource’s Executive Vice President of Products, Ganesh Bell, will present alongside an industry-leading technology company and ServiceSource customer: “Roadmap to 100% Recurring Revenue Performance”. This presentation will discuss the benefits of the…
Jitterbit’s First Turnkey Solution for Amazon EC2 Mirrors Salesforce CRM Data for Backup and Advanced Reporting. Jitterbit, a leading provider of simplified, powerful, and flexible application and data integration solutions, announced yesterday Jitterbit CloudReplicate(TM) for Salesforce. CloudReplicate is a turnkey solution that provides real-time synchronization of cloud application data to Amazon EC2 for retention, retrieval and…
According to a statement by the US Senator Joe Lieberman’s office, Amazon Web Services has discontinued providing its cloud computing services to WikiLeaks, the organization that has published hundreds of thousands of classified diplomatic communications of the US government on its website. “This morning Amazon informed my staff that it has ceased to host the…
Wikileaks, the site that has infuriated the US government by releasing thousands of US diplomatic cables, is using Amazon.com Inc. servers in the U.S. to help deliver its information. The site cablegate.wikileaks.org, which WikiLeaks is using for the diplomatic documents, is linked to servers run by Amazon Web Services in Seattle, as well as to…
Dreamforce is just one week away! It surely looks like it will be the industry’s largest cloud computing event of the year with over twenty thousand people expected to be at the Moscone Center from December 6-9th. So what’s new and exciting about this year’s event? Party Party Party! Did we mention the numerous parties?…
Eloqua announced today via Marketwire the availability of Eloqua Discover for Salesforce.com with Salesforce Chatter integration on AppExchange 2. The Salesforce Chatter integration within Eloqua Discover for Salesforce.com provides sales teams the ability to easily and quickly track prospect activities while engaging in real-time communication through feeds. Eloqua Discover for Salesforce.com is designed to help…
The Cloud Industry Forum (CIF), established to promote trust, security and transparency within the sector, has launched its Code of Practice, following an extensive period of public consultation and piloting. (View “Transition to the Cloud: The case for a Code of Practice”) The Cloud Industry Forum has been working on the development of the draft…