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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

• 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

• Salesforce.com Sees Its Next $1B Market

  BNET - 2009-03-23

  Salesforce.com, the $1 billion vanguard of the software-as-a-service SaaS industry, is betting its next $1 billion in revenues will come from disrupting the call center industry. The company that declared death to on-premise software with SFA, its flagship on-demand customer relationship management CRM tool, and which has...

  Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer Service, Software-as-a-service, Dell Computer Corp., Call-center, Twitter, Service Cloud, Sales Force Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, 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

• Adoption of Salesforce.com Software-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service Accelerates Throughout EMEA

  - 2008-05-07

  Salesforce.com surpasses 7,000 EMEA customers and nearly 140,000 subscribers in first fiscal quarter of 2009

  Tags: PaaS, Salesforce.com Inc., software-as-a-service

• Appirio Delivers Four New Software-as-a-Service Offerings to Accelerate the Adoption of Salesforce for Google Apps

  - 2008-04-14

  Appirio ( www.appirio.com ) today announced four new Software-as-a-Service SaaS offerings that bring together Google AppsTM and Salesforce CRM. The four Appirio offerings enable Salesforce and Google users to easily synchronize calendars, collaborate on marketing campaigns, find and embed documents, and create and share customized CRM dashboards.

  Tags: Google Apps, Google Inc., Salesforce.com Inc., software-as-a-service

• Research and Markets: DreamForce '07: Customer Interviews Indicate the Strength of Salesforce and SaaS

  - 2007-10-12

  DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c71390) has announced the addition of DreamForce '07: Customer Interviews Indicate the Strength of Salesforce and SaaS to their offering

  Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., software-as-a-service

• OpenAir CEO Joins Executives From Salesforce.com, Business Objects and Others in Discussion of SaaS

  - 2007-04-13

  OpenAir ( www.openair.com ), the world's leading provider of Professional Services Automation PSA software, today announced that CEO Morris Panner will be speaking on the topic of "The Big Bang of SaaS: Strategic Change Agent or Just Another Service?" at the upcoming Software and Information Industry Association SIIA conference, to...

  Tags: Business Objects, Salesforce.com Inc., software-as-a-service