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1. DemandResults Launches New Force.com Application to Enhance CRM Data Completion

...re updated. After the easy single-click install, administrators can use Salesforce's native validation rule features to easily assign percentage weight to specific data points. This insight helps admi...

2. Salesforce.com today announced Summer '09

Summer ’09 will deliver new features across the Service Cloud, the Sales Cloud and the Force.com platform – delivering innovation to every department and every user. The real time cloud infrastruc

3. Salesforce and Google App Engine

...e easily and well connected," he said. "A lot about what we're learning about collectively are what are the features we need to build into our platforms to work together better." He said that even tra...

4. "Salesforce.com is good BECAUSE it's SaaS"

...w if certain changes will make the product better or worse. The result - bloatware, as product managers add features based on what's going to look good on a feature sheet, without really knowing what ...

5. Salesforce.com Further Integrates with Google Apps

...ions of their applications, third-party developers can improve upon the applications by building additional features on top of them. "That's the whole Web 2.0 philosophy," she says. "Focus on the ...

6. Salesforce.com Launches Salesforce Summer '08

... Both applications deliver true Web 2.0 collaboration capabilities to users globally. A total of 50 new CRM features are also live with Salesforce Summer ’08, thereby raising the bar for industry in...

7. Salesforce and Google Apps

... to switch from Microsoft Office applications to Google Apps because Google Apps is still missing important features that enterprises want, such as role-based administration, the ability to work offli...

8. Small Business Owners; Beware the $695 Offer!

...ar of Salesforce.com you'll have to ante up for more than five (5) times that if you later realize you need features not included with Team. That's $3900/year for the Professional Edition with five (5...

9. What other company charges you for a test environment?

... I think it is really bad form and just plain short sighted when a software company's pricing policy places features out of reach of customers that can benefit merely as a means to get the more well-h...

10. Why is "No Software" Bad Positioning?

...esForce.com could add a web feature to make this use-case easier, but they will never be able to add enough features to keep up with the practically infinite data entry and data manipulation needs the...

11. They hate Professional and Team Edition Customers

... solutions that actually meet the needs of smaller companies. Instead, SalesForce.com has simply lopped off features from the Enterprise Edition so that they could charge less and hopefully reach a le...

12. Comment by Rob H on Small Business Owners; Beware the $695 Offer!

... this case. SugarCRM - Always out there as an option but you have to do alot of the legwork to get all the features you need. Again, like I said, lots of options and you really have to do your res...

13. Comment by Bill Cloward on "Salesforce.com is good BECAUSE it's SaaS"

...he way software vendors tend to prioritize change/new feature requests. OPSV vendors tend to emphasize new features whose "curb appeal" can be expected to have positive impact on market share. SaaS ...

14. Comment by Paul Midgley on One-sided Contracts make for Unhappy Customers

...alled www.WiredContact.co.uk we now pay less than half of what we were paying and have pretty much the same features, what we really like is that our IT team were able to integrate our website, accoun...

15. Comment by Mike Schinkel on Danger Will Robinson! Beware of TEAM Edition

... to beg for it and be at their mercy as to whether or not it is approved.) [1] http://blogs.salesforce.com/features/2006/03/appexchange_dat.html...

16. Comment by Mike Schinkel on Danger Will Robinson! Beware of TEAM Edition

...my point was not whether Professional edition was inexpensive or not, it was the TEAM edition does not have features legitimately needed by small business and, as Professional is MORE THAN FIVE TIMES ...

17. Comment by Jager McConnell on What other company charges you for a test environment?

...customers. Just like some people find even our Team Edition pricing too expensive even though they need the features in Enterprise Edition. Again, the feedback is definitely welcome and we really do ...

18. Comment by Mike Schinkel on Microsoft Outlook Edition

...e I'm too demanding? Friends and family certainly think so. :) Anywho, I do see that SF-OE has key missing features; one in particular, but that is the subject of a future blog post. So rather than l...

19. Salesforce.com Further Integrates with Google Apps
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...ions of their applications, third-party developers can improve upon the applications by building additional features on top of them. "That's the whole Web 2.0 philosophy," she says. "Focus on the ...