US Government particularly US Federal agencies are one of the largest IT consumers in the world. Many of the federal, state and local government agencies use services from IT vendors that are compliant to Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) requirements. IT vendors such as IBM, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and others wanting a larger share…
During his speech this morning at Cloudforce in San Francisco, Salesforce.com CEO and chairman Marc Benioff stated that the social revolution has created a social divide. “The reason why the social revolution is different is because it’s bleeding into our society,” Benioff said, noting how sites like Twitter and Facebook played a significant role last…
Salesforce.com announced recently that the former US Federal Government author and CIO of the Cloud-First policy, Vivek Kundra has joined the company as Executive Vice President to leverage their cloud social enterprise. Kundra is a popular figure in the IT technology and has been coined as an enterprise innovator. Kundra’s track record as CIO of…
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 into the existing ecosystem of Salesforce enterprise SaaS applications. Rypple is…
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 a pioneer strategy from Salesforce. One…
SAP AG finally purchased SuccessFactors Inc.; a Web-based software company that will serve as the vehicle for SAP to be at par with its rival’s Salesforce and Oracle in the cloud market. SAP had been suffering in the business for five years now as it tried to create cloud applications to get a chunk of…
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 on the deployment of mobile and social software in cloud or Web-based computing environments. Model Metrics…
Salesforce.com has acquired help desk service provider Assistly for approximately $50 million, the two companies announced Wednesday. Salesforce.com chairman and CEO Marc Benioff praised Assistly’s service for its “instant sign up and zero-touch onboarding,” and predicted that its offering would be used by “millions of companies around the world.” Salesforce.com plans to market Assistly’s service…
Salesforce.com and Concur are set to unveil an integration partnership this week at Dreamforce 2011 where Concur’s travel and expense management solution will be tied into Salesforce’s CRM. The integration lets Salesforce users manage travel and expenses, book trips and track and manage itineraries through the Salesforce user interface. This integration will be the first…
Analyst projections on Salesforce.com’s sales performance for the third quarter of this year has been beaten already. This was to be credited to the users and companies demand for more online customer support and management software. Salesforce.com is currently the key supplier for such online features. Earlier this year, analysts had projected a $555.7 million…