The Salesforce.com “Best of” customer choice awards recognize AppExchange partners who have had excellent user reviews in a specific calendar year. These partners are awarded based on user-contributed reviews and do not reflect the opinions of salesforce.com, its employees or partners. The award has 11 separate categories where the winners receive recognition for their ability…
While social media and social networking have changed the way people connect and communicate with each other, the implications for businesses of all sizes are also significant. The “social consumer” is in the spotlight and shares his customer experience and opinions on a massive scale with other consumers – worldwide. This has a ground-breaking effect…
Salesforce is known as the leader in CRM, but wouldn’t it be great if you could also used it for Marketing Automation? A marketer’s life would be so much easier if he or she can have one solution to capture, store, score and nurture contacts. Lauren Carlson from Software Advice wrote a great article today…
With the recent completed acquisition of Dimdim, announced Thursday Jan 6, salesforce aims to bring real-time messaging and collaboration tools to its Facebook-style enterprise collaboration service Chatter. Founded in 2007, Dimdim provides its users with a cheap alternative for setting up online and remote meetings. That includes real-time messaging, screen sharing and other additional services….
With more than half a billion users, Facebook is practically a goldmine for marketers to advertise their business. Facebook social marketing helps deepen relationships with existing customers, improve ROI, and build communities around the business. With a low advertising budgets, you can effectively choose your audience by location, demographics, and psychographics, as well as A/B…
The “Cloud” has become the biggest buzzword in technology today and it is having a revolutionary impact on small to medium size businesses (SMBs), especially in the way they market their business. In order to optimize their spending, small businesses have to be creative when it comes to marketing resources. Most small businesses cannot afford…
2010 was a big year for Cloud Computing and as the year approaches to an end we take a look and the top Cloud Computing stories of the year that made headlines around the world. Oracle Moves To The Cloud Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corp has not been a big supporter of Cloud Computing…
Dreamforce is always Silicon Valley’s liveliest event, but this year’s event was especially great, with lots of shocking announcements and plenty of entertainment. Bill Clinton, Stevie Wonder, Will.I.Am from the BlackEyesPeas, the Bush impersonator and the Microsoft’s customer who didn’t get forced were among the featured guests at the event. For a recap of last…
We met up with Demandbase at Dreamforce ’10 to talk about the company’s latest announcement regarding its Real-Time Identification Service, which the company says can now identify more than 1 billion IP addresses, matching them to over seven million businesses, representing more than 75 percent of all business web traffic across North America and Europe….
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,”…