Category: Salesforce.com
Salesforce buys Radian6 for $340 million
Salesforce.com has announced its fourth acquisition in as many months, with the purchase of Canadian startup Radian6 for $340 million in cash and stock. The deal, according to Wednesday’s announcement, will be concluded by July 31 2011 with the payment of about $276 million in cash and $50 million in stock for the company. The [...]
The Cloud 2 Era – Cloud computing enters a new growth phase
The switch to the cloud and the mobile Internet marks a “tectonic shift” to a “technology supercycle,” said Mark Murphy, a Piper Jaffray analyst. He sees the cloud software market growing 23.9% annually over five years vs. 4.7% for the broader software sector. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff calls this the start of the “Cloud 2″ [...]
Press Release: Open-Xchange Partners to Bring Cloud-Based E-mail Integration with Salesforce.com
http://www.matchmyemail.com/press-releases/ Open-Xchange Partners to Bring Cloud-Based E-mail Integration with Salesforce.com Integration with Match My Email enables customer information and e-mails in one place NUREMBERG, Germany and TARRYTOWN, N.Y., February 15, 2011 –Open-Xchange and RAE Internet Inc. announced today the ability to integrate Open-Xchange e-mail with Salesforce.com account information — putting customer communications and account information [...]
Former Salesforce.com Execs Form Cloud Startup, Okta
Former execs from Salesforce.com have launched a startup in the enterprise cloud computing business, with initial clients Pandora and Enterasys. Based out of San Francisco, Okta provides an enterprise solution intended to make it easy for companies to manage cloud computing apps and users; particularly useful as a company grows in headcount and adopts more [...]
Microsoft Moves Against Salesforce
Microsoft’s Dynamics CRM Online, the cloud version of its Dynamics CRM 2011 and a Salesforce competitor, has finally escaped its North American boundaries and is now available worldwide. Well, in at least 40 markets at any rate. Microsoft is apparently expecting a good deal of switching to go on, or it’s hoping so. To egg [...]
Microsoft vs. Salesforce the court case
Packaged software king Microsoft and cloud computing prince Salesforce.com are duelling in US courts, with each accusing the other of violating its patented technology. The legal battle comes as Microsoft strives to adapt to a trend toward programs being offered as services in the internet “cloud” instead of being installed and maintained on people’s computers. [...]
Salesforce’s Chatter for the enterprise
Salesforce.com on Tuesday said that its Chatter corporate social networking platform is now generally available. For existing customers, Chatter is free as a new feature. The company has a Chatter-only option for $15 a month for each user. Chatter takes the best features of Facebook and Twitter and integrates them into the enterprise. According to [...]
Salesforce's Chatter for the enterprise
Salesforce.com on Tuesday said that its Chatter corporate social networking platform is now generally available. For existing customers, Chatter is free as a new feature. The company has a Chatter-only option for $15 a month for each user. Chatter takes the best features of Facebook and Twitter and integrates them into the enterprise. According to [...]
Microsoft sues Salesforce.com
Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against Salesforce.com for allegedly infringing nine unspecified Microsoft CRM-related patents. Microsoft posted a statement on its Web site acknowledging it had taken legal action on May 18. Here’s an excerpt from that statement from Horacio Gutierrez, corporate vice president and deputy general counsel of Intellectual Property and Licensing: “Microsoft has [...]
Salesforce acquires Jisaw
Cloud-based CRM SalesForce.com has made a $3 billion entry into the crowd-sourced and cloud-based data services industry with an agreement to acquire Jigsaw. What that means is that data in Jigsaw is going to be available to all SalesForce users. “Salesforce.com is excited to bring the data services industry into the era of Cloud 2,” [...]
Marc Benioff is at it again…
Marc Benioff is at it again In this interview with TechnologyLive.com, he absolutely assaults IBM and Microsoft and characterizes both companies as having “done a terrible job over the last decade”. Some of the gems from the interview: TL: Surely you’re not ruling out Microsoft and IBM in this emerging space? Benioff: No. I’m not [...]
