Thoughts on Saleforce

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

LOS ANGELES - May 21, 2009 - DemandResults, a leader in evidence-based marketing products and services, released Percent Complete for the Salesforce AppExchange today. PercentComplete allows users and

2. Cloud Computing Savings - Real or Imaginary?

... At the lowest level, infrastructure-as-a-service is purely computational power for rent, which is what services like EC2 offer. It abstracts the physical infrastructure but you still need to do t...

3. Salesforce has a record quarter

...port revenues were $266 million, an increase of 35 percent over the same period last year. And professional services and other revenues were $23.5 million, an increase of 15 percent over the same peri...

4. Salesforce and Google App Engine

With several connections between the two companies' services already announced, Salesforce (NYSE: CRM).com and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) have decided to take their relationship to the next level. The two sa

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

...and deployment, and that they will dedicate 19% of their total software budget to applications delivered as services this year. Are they stupid? How about Silicon Valley venture capitalists? When's ...

6. Dreamfactory offers a new set of utlities for Salesforce users

...tilities as part of its training program for new customers, and Salesforce’s internal Global Professional Services is using SnapShot as a pilot program currently. ...

7. Salesforce.com Further Integrates with Google Apps

...). The toolkit, which lets programmers connect their applications or data into Google Apps and other Google services, strengthens the already tight relationship between the two vendors and fuels specu...

8. Salesforce and Google Apps

...-contained," he said. However, Narinder Singh, founder of Appirio, which provides applications and services to support the adoption of both Google Apps and Salesforce.com, claimed that signif...

9. Is Salesforce.com getting it right with Force.com?

...llaboration between users, the Apex Code programming language for building complex logic, the Force.com Web Services API for programmatic access, mash-ups, and integration with other applications and ...

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

...t Service Real-Time Database Mirroring Data Loader Salesforce Sandbox Integration PlatformApex Web Services API 8.0 Single Sign-On—LDAP Integration Salesforce Connector for SAP R/3 How...

11. European Customers vs. US Subpoenas?

...ntly in the U.S. and in Europe, and this problem is a concern for European customers of US-hosted on-demand services. What do you think? Rup My first thoughts when I read this were simply: ...

12. One-sided Contracts make for Unhappy Customers

...gh you don't need them all.  So Buyer Beware: Saleforce is more interested in taking your money for services you no longer need (so they can make their quarterly numbers as I was told by a per...

13. Does Benioff believe his own Propaganda?

...customer driven...companies...asked us for integration support.... We've invested a great deal...in our web services APIs..." It appears Benioff doesn't believe his own propaganda.  If he di...

14. They hate Professional and Team Edition Customers

...o for market segmentation which would have been a great strategy.  Companies that provide products and services to meet the needs of different market segments can engender great customer loyalty,...

15. Comment by VS on Small Business Owners; Beware the $695 Offer!

...and have been using the application for 6+ years. Several attempts to negotiate better pricing and/or more services for the price being paid have been made with little to no follow through - almost f...

16. Comment by jack alexander on One-sided Contracts make for Unhappy Customers

... for. Around the same time, a new salesforce.com sales rep started calling us trying to sell us additional services. We explained that we have been receiving strange renewal e-mails that salesforce.c...

17. Comment by nicko on Predatory SaaS licensing isn't okay just because it's better than purchased software

...ts will be totally crush by your comments that "they are bias", eventhough they make sense. There are many services out there that have minimum licenses. example : email spamming services also have a...

18. Comment by Mike Schinkel on URL Structure

.... :) That said, I would like to postulate that, with microformats I think we'll start to see "Casual Web Services (CWS)" or maybe we'll call them "Structured Screen Scraping (S3)" where HTML web p...

19. Comment by Rup on Is SalesForce.com TRUSTWORTHY?

...rently in the US and in Europe, and this problem is a concern for european customers of US-hosted on-demand services. What do you think ? Rup...

20. Comment by Enough BS on Why is "No Software" Bad Positioning?

... hosted model. Well, I can’t see the future any more than anyone else can. I don’t know where the hosted services industry will end up on the issue, but thanks for putting out your ideas, and provi...

21. Salesforce.com Further Integrates with Google Apps
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...). The toolkit, which lets programmers connect their applications or data into Google Apps and other Google services, strengthens the already tight relationship between the two vendors and fuels specu...

22. Salesforce Vendors
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Appirio provides products and services that help enterprises accelerate their adoption of on-demand. Appirio has a proven track record of delivering business value to customers by implementing missio

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... apps to cut down on project backlog and increase organizational agility. Industry Perspectives and Trends Services 2.0 - A New World for Systems Integrators A manifesto published by Sandhill.com de...

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Appirio provides products and services that help enterprises accelerate their adoption of on-demand. Appirio has a proven track record of delivering business value to customers by implementing missio

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... apps to cut down on project backlog and increase organizational agility. Industry Perspectives and Trends Services 2.0 - A New World for Systems Integrators A manifesto published by Sandhill.com de...