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Gartner: CIOs - develop business analytics or IT loses out
News Marc Benioff Salesforce.com CIOs that want to protect their IT budget from being slashed need to develop business analytic capabilities, according to new research from IT analyst group Gartner. Pressure on IT budgets should be relieved by 2010... [21 Nov 2007]
Phishers snare Salesforce.com data
News Salesforce.com is refusing to reveal details of a security breach caused when one of its employees surrendered their password in a phishing attack against the company. Details of Salesforce.com's customers were stolen as a result of the password... [08 Nov 2007]
Dell pledges to be carbon neutral
News Founding members of "Plant a Forest for Me" include ABN Amro, AMD, Ask.com, Salesforce.com and WellPoint. Dell has claimed it is the first of the large IT suppliers to commit to a carbon-neutral strategy for all of its operations worldwide but it... [28 Sep 2007]
CIOs face tough on-demand choices
News On the one hand there are the on-demand pure-play start-ups such as NetSuite and Salesforce.com, with their sales force automation and CRM tools, up against the traditional big vendors such as Microsoft, Oracle and SAP which have been slow to... [20 Sep 2007]
Businesses cool on software as a service
News SaaS is again in the headlines this week with an SAP on-demand software launch and the usual anti-software messages coming out of Salesforce.com's annual customer conference in San Francisco. Software as a service (SaaS) remains a low priority for... [18 Sep 2007]
Salesforce.com launches on-demand CRM platform
News Salesforce.com has launched a software as a service (SaaS) platform that allows businesses to develop their own on-demand applications more easily. The new Force.com platform was unveiled by Salesforce.com chairman and CEO Marc Benioff at the... [18 Sep 2007]
"Explosive" Saas boosts CRM spending
News As businesses refresh existing salesforce automation systems to align with their renewed drive for business and revenue growth, we expect this to push sales software to become the largest CRM segment by 2011. [10 Sep 2007]
Salesforce.com COO leaves for start-up
News Former Salesforce.com senior executive Phill Robinson has left the company to lead a web start-up. Robinson had been with Salesforce.com since 2003 and occupied several senior positions in the exec team of the software-as-a-service CRM company... [07 Aug 2007]
Competition: Win a day with Lewis Hamilton
News In March this year it responded with the Vodafone Applications Service, a new offering that mobilises enterprise applications (including Salesforce.com, Oracle, SAP, Siebel and Remedy) onto mobile smart devices to achieve just that. [18 Jul 2007]
Move over killer apps, the platform era is here
News Marc Benioff, chief executive of CRM specialist Salesforce.com, said: "The internet is the new operating system. For instance, application development that Thomson Financial and Dow Jones did on Salesforce.com suddenly made his company "a huge... [13 Jul 2007]
NetSuite announces flotation plan
News NetSuite was founded in 1998 by Goldberg and Nelson, both formerly of Oracle, around the same time as on-demand rivals RightNow Technologies and fellow Oracle alumnus Marc Benioff's Salesforce.com. On-demand CRM and ERP vendor NetSuite has... [02 Jul 2007]
In Brief: Apple gets social, YouTube goes mobile, Yahoo! upholds censorship and IT disappoints
News And elevator and escalator company Kone is rolling out Salesforce.com's on-demand CRM to 2,500 additional staff in 43 countries. Already a Salesforce customer, Kone is looking to use the product to increase sales per person and cut down on admin... [13 Jun 2007]
CIOs turn to web apps for cost and collaboration
News Online or hosted CRM services, as offered by the likes of Salesforce.com, are regarded as the flagship of the software as a service revolution and are being used by 52 per cent of the large enterprises whose CIOs were interviewed by Coleman Parkes. [07 Jun 2007]
Google, Salesforce to buddy up over CRM
News Google and Salesforce.com are expected to today launch a combined website that is designed to allow the online customer relationship management software maker to act as a reseller for Google's AdWords. [05 Jun 2007]
Vodafone takes biz apps mobile
News The service is aimed at enterprises looking to mobilise applications such as Oracle, Remedy, Salesforce.com, SAP and Siebel, and is the result of Vodafone's December acquisition of the systems integrator Aspective. [28 Mar 2007]
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