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Microsoft embraces cloud computing with 'Live Mesh'

News Microsoft, the dominant force in software that runs on a computer's local hard drive, has seen rivals like Google and Salesforce.com encroach on its turf with competitive offerings delivered over the internet.

Tags: google, cloud, microsoft

[23 Apr 2008]

Google and Salesforce.com team up to serve business

News Salesforce.com and Google have announced they're linking up to offer Google Apps integrated with Salesforce.com's CRM applications. The companies announced that Salesforce.com's customers now have the option of using versions of Calendar, Google...

Tags: salesforce, google

[14 Apr 2008]

iPhone SDK downloaded by 100,000 developers

News During the launch event, AOL, EA, Epocrates, Sega and Salesforce.com showed off preliminary versions of their iPhone applications. Despite some early problems managing the flood of developers seeking access to the iPhone software development kit...

Tags: iphone, sdk, developers, party

[13 Mar 2008]

Cloud computing - the data centre of the future?

News Forrester identified a wide range of companies as "cloud providers," including Amazon.com, Akamai Technologies, Joyent, Rackspace's Mosso software, and Salesforce.com's Force.com development platform.

Tags: datacentre, cloud, providers, hosting

[11 Mar 2008]

Profile: Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman, Infosys

News Marc Benioff Salesforce.com Nandan Nilekani is pretty much a legend in his own lifetime. Co-founder of Indian outsourcing giant Infosys, foundation board member of the World Economic Forum, co-founder of the Indian National Association of Software...

Tags: infosys, banking, nandan nilekani, founder

[03 Mar 2008]

Microsoft to broaden web-based business tools

News Google, Salesforce.com and a host of start-ups are aggressively targeting Microsoft's traditional business customers with web applications that can be less expensive and easier to install on computers and run.

Tags: microsoft, apps, email, business

[03 Mar 2008]

Steve Ballmer's $44.6bn letter to Yahoo!

News Marc Benioff Salesforce.com Microsoft today made a $44.6bn offer for web giant Yahoo! valuing the company 62 per cent higher than its latest stock value. According to Microsoft, the bid is intended to better position the two companies in the online...

Tags: microsoft, web, ads, yahoo!

[01 Feb 2008]

Oracle users demand better support

News Marc Benioff Salesforce.com Oracle customers want better product support through improved call centres and more information about services. Ronan Miles, chairman of the UK Oracle User Group, told silicon.com: "Areas of issue are in the support sphere.

Tags: fusion, oracle, india, egypt

[10 Dec 2007]

Steve Jobs top of the Power pops

News Marc Benioff Salesforce.com Apple co-founder and chief executive Steve Jobs has topped a list of the 25 most powerful business people in the world. Jobs took the top spot in Fortune magazine's Power 25 for 2007, for having "twice altered the...

Tags: apple, google, steve jobs, jobs

[29 Nov 2007]

European software industry gets big thumbs up

News Marc Benioff Salesforce.com The European software industry is booming at the moment, according to IT trade association Intellect. At an awards ceremony in Brussels, Intellect announced the top European IT companies for 2007 - the 'Truffle 100'.

Tags: europe, awards, intellect, software

[22 Nov 2007]

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...

Tags: cio, budget, it, business processes

[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...

Tags: phishing, breach, salesforce.com, wave

[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...

Tags: green, carbon, co2, dell

[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...

Tags: salesforce.com, on-demand, saas

[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...

Tags: cio jury, saas

[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...

Tags: marc benioff, saas, salesforce.com

[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.

Tags: crm, saas

[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...

Tags: saas, salesforce.com

[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.

Tags: lewis hamilton, vodafone

[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...

Tags: developers, google, facebook, platform

[13 Jul 2007]

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