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…
JESS3, a creative company that specializes in data virtualization, launched today “The State of Cloud Computing” microsite showing the history of cloud computing and the growing sector. Amongst the Cloud-based brands mentioned: Skype, Dropbox, YouTube, Wikipedia, Yahoo, MSN, Gmail, Farmville and Twitter. The three-minute video is funded by Salesforce.com; a company which specializes in enterprise…
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…
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…
Barron’s published a cover story on private cloud, Saturday Oct 23, stating that ‘Big companies are quickly adopting new computer networks known as “private clouds.” That may mean trouble for major tech suppliers”. The article predicts a secular decline in tech spending and that it will be difficult for tech vendors to grow revenue. Read more.