A new report from the 451 Market Monitor forecasts that the cloud computing marketplace will reach $16.7 billion in revenue by 2013. The 415 Market Monitor is a market-sizing and forecasting service from The 451 Group, a leading independent IT research and analyst organization. According to the report “Including the large and well-established software-as-a-service (SaaS)…
Below is a list of the most useful free Salesforce apps for marketing users. Whether you’re in charge of generating leads, proving ROI, managing trade shows and events, Public Relations or just plain marketing analytics; these apps will improve your efficiency and give you access to new marketing sources. Salesforce Marketing Calendar: The benefit of…
Microsoft announced Hyper-V Cloud on Monday at Tech•Ed Europe. Hyper-V Cloud is a set of programs and offerings that makes it easier for businesses to build their own private cloud infrastructures using the Windows Server platform. Dell Inc., Fujitsu Ltd., Hitachi Ltd., Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), HP, IBM Corp. and NEC Corp. have already signed…
Salesforce.com recently redesigned the application’s report and dashboard builder with new functionality including drag and drop fields, report preview and much more. For many years Salesforce’s reporting and dashboard builder received a lot of criticism and complaints from users for being below standard, especially compared to other CRM solutions like Netsuite and Siebel on-demand. Over…
According to PR Newswire, Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing company, announced today that President Bill Clinton will be the Special guest at Dreamforce 2010, the cloud computing event of the year. President Clinton will join salesforce.com Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff at the 8th annual salesforce.com user and developer conference. Grammy winner Stevie Wonder is…
The following Dreamforce sessions are not to miss if you’re a Cloud Marketer looking to enhance your knowledge of how to use salesforce and other cloud solutions to generate more leads and increase marketing ROI. Source www.dreamforce.com 1) How Salesforce.com Uses Salesforce to Manage Marketing Campaigns Tuesday, December 7; 3:45 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. At…
Eloqua and Marketo, the leaders in marketing automation solutions, are Platinum sponsors of this year’s Dreamforce event from Salesforce.com, Inc. The two companies upgraded their sponsorship from last year where they were gold and silver sponsors. Marketing automation, a cloud marketing solution, has seen incredible growth this past year and both companies are proving to…
Oxygen Cloud, a service that connects all people, data and devices within a company to a single virtual file system, announced this week at the Cloud Expo 2010 that it will now support large-scale enterprise migration to private cloud storage. That support includes users who prefer to deploy their personal devices for business including the…
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, one of the largest cloud computing events in the world, opened its doors yesterday at the Santa Clara Convention Center with 163 keynotes, general sessions, and a full 4-day Expo Floor. Individuals who attend the conference expect to dramatically increase their understanding of the full scope of the entire cloud computing…
Appirio, a cloud solution provider, issued results from its first State of the Public Cloud Survey. This survey targeted more than 150 IT decision makers at mid-to-large sized companies that had already implemented at least one of the leading SaaS applications or cloud platforms. “Companies leading the charge on cloud computing can teach the broader…