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Salesforce.com is a leader in pay-as-you-go enterprise cloud computing. It specializes in CRM software products for sales and customer services - and produces products for building and running business apps. Salesforce has recently developed a social networking product called Chatter for its business apps.
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Salesforce.com report highlights social ad value hotspots on Facebook
One of the lessons to be lifted from Salesforce's report is where (geographically-speaking) opportunities for the projected $11 billion social ad market will sprout in the next four years.
Customer data scattered in enterprise, says Scribe study
The report finds that the biggest stumbling block on the path to better customer data integration is an increasingly complex IT environment.
Salesforce.com appoints former Oracle exec as president, vice chairman
Keith Block will be responsible for leading the CRM giant's global sales, customer support and consulting services units.
Salesforce's Oracle database dependence: Can it open source its way out?
Salesforce is acquiring a laundry list of databases: NoSQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle. Oracle, however, is rumored to have landed a nine figure deal from Salesforce. Ouch.
Salesforce to acquire Exact Target: I now pronounce you 'Marketing Cloud'
What makes this one of Salesforce's most important acquisitions ever is Marc Benioff's proclamation last August that the Marketing Cloud is their next "billion dollar" business.
Salesforce's biggest acquisition yet: ExactTarget for $2.5B
Representing the largest acquisition by Salesforce to date, the CRM market leader will buy all the outstanding shares in ExactTarget for $2.5 billion — paying a stock premium of more than 50 percent on its recent share price.
Heroku pushes platform API out to public in beta
The Salesforce.com subsidiary has been busy spreading its wings as a fuller-fledged Platform-as-a-Service option to compete with the likes of Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.
Salesforce.com inks license deal for access to nearly 40,000 patents
Intellectual Vendors, which invests in and works with investors and technology businesses to drive innovation and invention, owns the rights to a portfolio of nearly 40,000 patents.
Salesforce intros mobile apps for federal, state and local gov't response
In light of the tornadoes in Oklahoma this past week, it is more evident than ever that ever second counts, and mobile offers more opportunities to reach more people in times of trouble.
Salesforce acquires Clipboard; folds service
The web content clipping and sharing service will shut down on June 30, 2013.
Salesforce's Benioff maps out 'the Customer Revolution'
Salesforce's leader unveils the latest addition to the Marketing Cloud while sharing his thoughts on the future of digital advertising.
Salesforce.com beefs up Marketing Cloud with Social.com
The social enterprise purveyor's Marketing Cloud balloons with a new brand and social monitoring tool.
Enterprise startups against the big guys: CxO Talk 7
This week's episode features a venture capital perspective on investment, cloud, disruption, and selling enterprise software against legacy vendors.
Salesforce aims to speed up enterprise app development
Salesforce argues that enterprises have been caught in trade-offs between user experience, development time and requirements to handle enterprise data.
Marry biz processes with 'unstructured' social collaboration
Companies looking to implement "unstructured" social collaboration strategies need to integrate these with the more structured business processes to gain optimal benefits.