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• Salesforce, Cisco Lend Each Other A Hand

  BNET - 2009-10-05

  Salesforce.com and Cisco struck up a partnership giving Salesforce access to Cisco telephony applications while giving Cisco a leg up into the smaller end of the market and a look into the working of the software-as-a-service business model. by Michael Hickins

  Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Cisco Systems Inc., Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales Force Management, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Michael Hickins

• Salesforce Cruising for a Financial Bruising?

  BNET - 2009-07-29

  Salesforce.com has been one of the leading SaaS "success" stories, and the company has been trying to ride that into a secure spot in future cloud computing. But it's facing the twin demons of slowing bookings and a time to customer profitability that makes you wonder whether the company can...

  Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Financial, Sales Force Management, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Sales, Emerging Technologies, Erik Sherman

• SAP Claims 'Security Breaches At Salesforce.com'

  BNET - 2009-07-23

  Incredibly, SAP would still rather talk trash about software-as-a-service SaaS than bring its own innovative products to market. During an interview on SAP TV (approximately 57 seconds into the video), SAP's CTO, Vishal Sikka, tried to portray SaaS as the "cheap" and unreliable bastard child of surviving...

  Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Security, Software-as-a-service, SAP AG, Vishal Sikka, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Sales Force Management, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Michael Hickins

• New Salesforce Strategy: 'Amplify And Extend'

  BNET - 2009-07-02

  Salesforce.com doesn't think that large enterprises should have to replace software and infrastructure in which they've already invested huge amounts. Peter Coffee, director of platform research at Salesforce, told me over the phone this morning that the sotware-as-a-service SaaS vendor is trying to convince potential customers that they can "amplify...

  Tags: Strategy, Salesforce.com Inc., Customer, Sales Force Management, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales, Emerging Technologies, Michael Hickins

• Salesforce.com: Mobile Not For Everybody

  BNET - 2009-04-07

  Salesforce.com introduced mobile versions of its software today in the hopes of upselling customers to more expensive versions of its offering. The so-called 'mobile lite' application supports Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and iPhone units and is free to some customers -- but not all, despite the company's claim that it's bringing...

  Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Mobile, Customer, Advertising & Promotion, Sales Force Management, Software As A Service (SaaS), Marketing, Sales, Emerging Technologies, Michael Hickins

• Is VMware The New Salesforce.com?

  BNET - 2009-02-27

  Salesforce.com is more than simply the market leader for software-as-a-service SaaS. While others notably NetSuite came to market sooner, Salesforce.com was the first company to successfully sell the idea of hosting software in its own data centers and delivering it as a service via the Internet on any kind of...

  Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, VMware Inc., Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Sales Force Management, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Michael Hickins

• Salesforce.com Moves into Website Services with New Amazon and Facebook Alliances

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-11-06

  Despite the economy, election and lingering questions about whether Software-as-a-Service SaaS is enterprise-ready, this week's Salesforce.com CRM Dreamforce conference drew nearly ten thousand energetic attendees and exhibitors to celebrate the power of the 'cloud.' The event not only dispelled any questions about whether the SaaS movement can withstand today's...

  Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Facebook, Alliance, Software-as-a-service, Amazon.com Inc., Web Site, Seeking Alpha, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Jeff Kaplan, Software

• Cloud Computing Also Hit by IT-Spending Cutbacks

  BNET - 2008-11-05

  It’s a big week for the software as a service industry: Salesforce.com is establishing itself as a leading cloud computing provider, NetSuite is planning to take on SAP head on and Success Factors is upping its outlook. But underneath the surface there are more than a few questions marks lurking....

  Tags: Software, Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, SuccessFactors Inc., NetSuite Inc., IT-spending, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales Force Management, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Larry Dignan

• Microsoft Takes on the Cloud Crowd

  BNET - 2008-04-25

  Microsoft continues to grind ahead on its relentless and glacial drive to take over Yahoo, but less noticed in the business press is that it's also making headway on another front: on enterprise software as it moves into the cloud. In enterprise software, cloud computing has centered...

  Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Sales Force Management, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Management, Sales, Software, Kevin Kelleher