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AS Profile As head of Salesforce.com, the software-as-a-service CRM company he founded 10 years ago, Marc Benioff is one of the longest serving evangelists of software delivered over the internet. Benioff is a big... [29 Sep 2009]
Salesforce.com tech to turn customers' Twittering into useful feedback
News Chief executive Marc Benioff used the announcement to tout his company's cloud-computing philosophy: "With two-thirds of customer service interactions moving to the cloud and the popularity of social networks, it is high... [10 Sep 2009]
Cloud computing a buzzing in business ears
Comment At salesforce.com's recent customer events I noticed the word cloud has been added to the familiar 'death to software' schtick that Marc Benioff has been pedalling for years. But too many buzzwords stop businesses from... [20 Aug 2009]
$1bn pours from cloud for Salesforce.com
News Chief executive, Marc Benioff, said in the conference call: "The numbers for the fourth quarter clearly demonstrate increasing adoption of the Force.com platform. Salesforce.com reported yesterday revenues of $1.08bn, a... [26 Feb 2009]
Salesforce.com service on a cloud lifts off
News Introducing Service Cloud, Marc Benioff, chairman and chief executive of Salesforce.com, said: "This has been made possible through the emergence of native cloud-computing platforms like Force.com that are built to... [16 Jan 2009]
Gates, open source, Azure and the cloud
News CEO and founder of software-as-a-service vendor salesforce.com, Marc Benioff made some big announcements at November's Dreamforce user conference in San Francisco. There have been some big changes in the software... [30 Dec 2008]
Google, Salesforce.com put heads together in the cloud
News Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com CEO, noted in a statement that Salesforce and Google agree on how to approach cloud computing and an open environment. We have an open vision for cloud computing," Benioff said. [09 Dec 2008]
Is Salesforce.com sitting pretty for cloud wars?
Comment Salesforce.com has long fancied itself a force for change in the software industry - and it's becoming increasingly hard to argue against the logic of CEO and founder Marc Benioff. But it's last week's product... [12 Nov 2008]
'Microsoft, SAP just don't get cloud computing'
News Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff has accused SAP of failing to understand cloud computing and slammed Microsoft's internet-based operating system, Azure. Speaking at Salesforce's Dreamforce user conference in San... [04 Nov 2008]
Force.com breaks out to the web with Sites
News Speaking at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce user conference in San Francisco, CEO Marc Benioff said: "The reality is powerful sites no longer need cost and complexity. Salesforce.com has launched an application that enables... [04 Nov 2008]
Salesforce.com teams up with web 2.0 titans
News Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff said: "This is really the social graph meeting the enterprise platform. As Facebook increasingly takes aim at business users, the social network has joined Amazon in announcing a tie-up... [04 Nov 2008]
Marc Benioff
AS Profile Marc Benioff is one of the keenest evangelists of software as a service and has continued to drive Salesforce.com - a company he founded in 1999 - forwards in his own inimitable style. This is the fourth time... [07 Oct 2008]
The rise and rise of Infor
Comment For Mark Benioff and his team to have done this in just nine years is impressive. Is Jim Schaper, Infor's chairman, merely shy compared with the ebullient Benioff? Benioff might be irked... [06 Aug 2008]
Yahoo!'s board gets shareholder backing
News Marc Benioff Salesforce.com Yahoo! s board of directors won strong backing from shareholders at its annual meeting on Friday, with Jerry Yang, the company's embattled CEO, receiving 85 per cent of the vote in his favour. [04 Aug 2008]
Infosys launches radical retail tech services
News Marc Benioff Salesforce.com Infosys CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan is an unassuming man, who doesn't use his position to be imposing. It's less important for him to be the company's controller than to look like he is. [01 Aug 2008]
