Salesforce.com has interesting news this week. The company launched a new service, Force.com Checkout, allowing customers to buy and sell AppExchange apps online anytime, anywhere, from a browser.
The Checkout is like a “one stop shop” allowing you to trial, pay for, start using, and manage subscriptions of Salesforce CRM and some of your favorite AppExchange [...]
Adeptia Inc., an innovative provider of business process integration technologies, today introduced a process improvement and integration solution for companies using Salesforce.com.
First solution to extend the power of Salesforce CRM Ideas: helps companies connect community input back to accounts and contacts in Salesforce CRM to drive deeper customer relationships
NEW YORK–Bluewolf (www.bluewolf.com) today announced the availability of bw.Connect for Salesforce CRM Ideas on the Force.com AppExchange. bw.Connect for Salesforce CRM Ideas is a new solution that enables
Netsuite is going for the jugular.
It’s no secret they are trying to steal customers from Salesforce.com at half the cost.
Maybe they were inspired by all the “help” Entellium got from other CRM companies such as Maximizer or EnterpriseWizard
Their program is called RenewForce and is available to any customer with a paid subscription [...]
Salesforce.com received two 2008 CRM Market Awards, for Midmarket Suite CRM and Sales Force Automation from CRM magazine. The company also lead the Enterprise Suite CRM and Small Business Suite CRM nominations.
The awards were presented at this month’s destinationCRM 2008 Conference in NY.
But that’s not all good news for Salesforce.com. Not too long ago the [...]
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Boardwalktech, Inc., a leader in Enterprise 2.0 technology has released its Enterprise Report Manager (ERM) for Salesforce.com’s (NYSE:CRM) AppExchange. ERM is part of the Boardwalk Collaboration Platform (BCP) family of products which intelligently connects the desktop to the enterprise utilizing a patented, collaborative spreadsheet-driven database technology. With ER
One of the discussions at the Always On Summit at Stanford was called on ‘Will the Next Salesforce.com Please Stand Up?’. The name already speaks for itself, the crporate world is desperate to see something new and groundbreaking, a business solution of the next generation. But what’s the point of moving on to something new, [...]
SFDC announced four levels of certification:
– Salesforce.com Certified Administrator
– Salesforce.com Certified Advanced Administrator
– Salesforce.com Certified Force.com Developer
– Salesforce.com Certified Advanced Force.com Developer
Though quite costly ($3,000 to $4,000 for exam preparation), the certification will result in a job classification and will definitely a
Salesforce.com announced that its “CRM applications and partner solutions from the AppExchange are being used by IDeaS Revenue Optimization to run an entire business.”
The power and benefits of SaaS are widely used by employees across sales, marketing, service and support, client services, product management, company officials say.
IDeaS is an enterprise revenue management and optimiza
DUBLIN, Ireland — Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Product Evaluation - Customer Relationship Management: Salesforce.com” report to their offering.
We recently completed a comparison of six market leading Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions. One of the evaluated products was Salesforce.com. The evaluation examines specific strengths and weakne
Last month Salesforce.com was named one of Ethisphere Institute’s 2008 ‘World’s Most Ethical Companies’.
While the fuss around the company’s alliance with Google creating a formidable competition against Microsoft is on, SFDC keeps steadily securing its position as a company that is not only successful in business, but also quite popualar for its community approach. [...]
In the world of customer data quality problems, simply solving the problem, which is exactly what most vendors are trying to do, is not the best option. The thing is, most problems arise as a result of a whole bunch of issues that too need to be adressed. When the data you get from [...]
SalesForce has news on their summer release.
The release will contain new editing capabilities enabling users to edit a single record, or multiple - up to 200 - records, directly from a list, never leaving the page. The new navigation features (displaying the record count (up to 2000), specifying number of records displayed per page, jump [...]
Just minutes after I read about the SugarCRM Data Center Edition, I came across this PR newswire.
I am very experienced in setting up Data Centers. My recommendations in setting up a worldwide Data Center is separating them by exactly 12 hours. This is a true “follow-the-sun” monitoring system.
For example, The International Air Transport [...]
Boomi On Demand Makes SaaS Integration Affordable for Small Businesses
BERWYN, PA and MALVERN, PA (May 21, 2008) - Boomi, the market and technology leader for on-demand integration, today announced a partnership with CRM manager to greatly simplify and accelerate the integration aspects of Salesforce.com implementation projects. CRM manager, a provider of full-service implementation and ongoing [
NewsFactor - Salesforce.com previewed its 26th-generation release, Salesforce Summer '08, at Dreamforce Europe, its European conference for users and developers. The release includes a host of new CRM features, but it focuses most sharply on new collaboration capabilities.
For the past couple of years, Microsoft has been crowing about its hosted CRM service that competes head-to-head with services from Salesforce.com. It wasn’t until today, April 22, however, that Microsoft’s offering in this space became generally available. Microsoft has now taken the “Early Access” label off its Microsoft-hosted Dynamics CRM Online service. Starting today, Microsoft will be offering two different versions of its hosted service: Dynamics CRM Online Professional and Dynamics CRM Online Professional Plus. (The main difference between the two, besides the $20 price differential, is the Plus version provides offline data-sync and expanded storage.) Dynamics CRM Online was formerly known as Dynamics CRM Live. Microsoft changed the name of the service l
Salesforce’s stock price jumped over 10% today to an all time high (the Nasdaq rose a little over 1%). The company’s market cap rose $743 million, to $8.06 billion. Why the big jump? There is no public information or news emerging to support the increase.
Our sources in private equity say it was fueled by [...]
Interesting development here…
This video was added to YouTube on April 12, 2 days before the announcement. But April 12 was a Friday and the deal was announced on Monday April 14.
Other Interesting Tidbits
It is now reported that Salesforce made an offer to acquire Zoho before turning to Google.
According to Sridhar Vembu of Zoho, Salesforce.com [...]
Este lunes, Google y Salesforce han anunciado oficialmente la integración entre Google Apps (Docs, Calendar, Gmail, y Gtalk) y la empresa de aplicaciones online Salesforce. Google Appls se expondrá ante un millón de negocios pagantes suscritos a Salesforce y Salesforce se convertirá en algo más atractivo para las decenas de millones de usuarios corporativos de [...]
Google y Salesforces han firmado un acuerdo por el que todas las aplicaciones ofimáticas de Google, llamadas Google Apps, se integrarán dentro de las soluciones de Salesforce. Así, esta misma semana, los clientes de Salesforce podrán usar el procesador de textos, el servicio de correo electrónico o la hoja de cálculo sin coste adicional. La alianza entre Google y Salesforce no es nueva. Salesforce fue una de las primeras en comprometerse oficialmente a usar las soluciones de productividad de Google, cuando las anunció en febrero de 2007. En junio, ambas empresas empezaron a integrar el sistema publicitario Adwords en las solución de Salesforce, y el pasado noviembre, esta última se unió a la iniciativa OpenSocial para crear una plataforma abierta para el desarrollo de aplicacione
Google and SalesForce will merge together to fight Microsoft as one of the leading competitors when it comes to Office Suite. Google Apps and Salesforce are creating online office suite as one package. Email, Word, Spreadsheet (excel) and more all in one place.
Credit: SalesForce.com
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 27, 2008 /PRNewswire/ — LiveOps, the virtual call center company, today announced the integration and certification of its On-Demand Call Center Platform with the Salesforce CRM application suite. This integration provides in-bound and out-bound telephony management, call routing, agent availability, CTI screen pop and call control for use with Salesforce CRM. [...]
There are an increasing number of frustrated Salesforce.com clients who are in search of a new CRM provider. This has lead Salesboom.com to create a Salesforce.com Enticement Program which is designed for displeased Salesforce.com customers who are looking to migrate to another CRM provider. Throughout the duration of this program businesses who migrate to Salesboom.com [...]
After today's close, we'll get the awaited earnings relase from Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM). First...
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Google and Salesforce.com are in talks for an alliance that could help them compete better against Microsoft, The Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Monday.The companies are still working out details of a potential partnership, which is expected to be announced in the next few weeks, the paper said, citing unnamed sources.The paper said one outcome could be a Web-based offering that integrates some of Google's online services such as email and instant-messaging with those of Salesforce.com, whose customer-relationship management tools help salespeople track their accounts.Google and Salesforce.com could not be reached immediately for comment.
Customer relationship management company SalesForce has been recently reported to start partnering with Google.
The results maybe the integration of Google’s online collaboration services such as Gmail and Gtalk.
This partnership is rumored to be for the purpose of preparing to outperform Microsoft.
More sources discussing this partnership here and here.
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