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…

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…

Silverpop®, provider of a scalable, integrated email marketing and marketing automation platform, announced its Engage App is now available on salesforce.com’s ChatterExchange, a category of salesforce.com’s AppExchange. With Silverpop Engage updated to include Salesforce Chatter functionality, Silverpop customers can automatically trigger numerous behavioral events to Chatter, salesforce.com’s real-time enterprise collaboration app, providing instant updates that…

During a conference call with financial analysts Thursday Benioff, salesforce.com CEO,  said he will unveil a free “stripped down” version of its Chatter social networking software for businesses at the company’s upcoming Dreamforce conference. The CEO said more than 60,000 of Salesforce’s 87,200 customers are now using Chatter. Salesforce turns the Chatter service on at…

Yesterday, at the UP 2010 Cloud Computing Conference, PwC US and Cloudcor, Inc. announced the four winners of the UP 2010 Cloud Computing Awards. Out of more than 150 submissions and 25 finalists, four companies were selected as the winners of the UP 2010 Cloud Computing Awards: Fastest Growing Cloud Provider Award Audience Choice Award:…

iContact announced yesterday the availability of iContact for Salesforce on AppExchange 2. iContact for Salesforce is tightly integrated with the Salesforce Campaigns tab and allows users to create, send and track relevant and targeted e-mail marketing without the need to learn a new application. Users can see how each contact or lead responds to e-mails…

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…