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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]
Salesforce.com IPO to help the needy
News The upcoming flotation of hosted CRM provider Salesforce.com is likely to result in a windfall of over a million dollars for a charitable organisation. While it is not uncommon for companies and their employees to give away some of the money they... [22 Jan 2004]
Salesforce.com lands two megadeals
News Salesforce.com said it has landed two of its biggest contracts ever for its customer service and sales software, two wins that could help the company's bid to go public. The announcements touch on one of the risk factors Salesforce highlighted in... [26 Feb 2004]
Salesforce.com boosts float with cautious big boy wins
News Hosted CRM vendor salesforce.com continued the march towards its hotly anticipated stock market flotation with announcements aimed at building its credibility as a mainstream CRM alternative for large enterprises. [27 Feb 2004]
Salesforce.com reaches its Apex
News Salesforce.com has told users that from early next year they will be able to use its own programming language to further customise their apps. Salesforce.com customers, as well an independent software developers will have access to the code, called... [11 Oct 2006]
Salesforce pushing podcasts on iTunes
News CRM company Salesforce.com has signed up to Apple's iTunes service and is releasing a set of podcasts to trumpet the Salesforce message. Salesforce is creating six podcasts dealing with best practice for the company's AppExchange service, which was... [10 Apr 2006]
Salesforce.com launches brain raid on Siebel
News Customer relationship management (CRM) company Salesforce.com is making a cheeky attempt to poach top staff from Siebel, which is in the process of being acquired by database giant Oracle. In an email sent to his staff last week, Salesforce.com... [03 Oct 2005]
Salesforce.com goes offline again and again
News Several disgruntled Salesforce.com customers took their complaints to the blogosphere this week after enduring a series of recent outages, including one on Monday that reportedly knocked portions of the site offline for several hours. [01 Feb 2006]
Salesforce.com and NetSuite square up
News CRM middleweights NetSuite and salesforce.com are squaring up to one another over claims from NetSuite that it's got its San Francisco-based rival beaten. NetSuite has made bullish claims about having the edge over salesforce.com with its latest... [05 Apr 2005]
Salesforce.com previews new CRM functionality
News Salesforce.com has unveiled some of the new elements scheduled for the winter 2006 release of its on-demand platform, including customer relationship management (CRM) functions. Salesforce.com said it is also working with Cisco to better integrate... [13 Sep 2005]
Salesforce shops for Google AdWords add-on
News Salesforce.com has acquired a small company that created an add-on to its hosted services for purchasing and managing Google-driven web advertising campaigns. The acquisition, expected to be announced today at a news conference in New York, brings... [22 Aug 2006]
Salesforce tops half-million subscriber mark
News CRM company Salesforce.com has reported good figures for the second quarter of 2006 that topped analysts' expectations and revealed its subscriber base has exceeded 500,000 for the first time. Revenue rose 64 per cent to $118m as Salesforce added... [21 Aug 2006]
Salesforce confronts outages critics
News Salesforce.com has responded to some of the criticism it has suffered after service outages left customers without their CRM services for as long as an hour and a half. These problems hit the headlines just before last Christmas when Salesforce... [06 Mar 2006]
Salesforce.com CEO comments could mean IPO share buy back
News Salesforce.com could be forced to repurchase its IPO shares from investors, if the company were ever sued and found to have violated a federal law concerning 'gun jumping', according to a document the company filed Friday with the SEC. [07 Jun 2004]
Salesforce.com goes OEM with AppExchange
News On-demand CRM vendor Salesforce.com has announced it is to offer its AppExchange service as a standalone OEM product - with no CRM functionality - for customers who simply want access to the platform. [25 May 2006]
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