Salesforce as part of Oracle?
February 28, 2008
Chris Bucholtz of the Inside CRM blog asks “How would SMBs view Salesforce as part of Oracle?” in his latest article.
CRM Jumps 13% on Q4 results
February 28, 2008
Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) jumped 13% today on positive news from its Q4 report. With the jump, Salesforce has regained all but a fraction of the value it’s lost since it started of the year at $62.69.
For more information on the jump continue reading at Reuters or Fool.com.
How Salesforce Monitors User Experience (SaaS providers take note)
February 27, 2008
Salesforce.com announced that it will be extending its relationship with Cordiant “the leading provider of equipment used to manage and troubleshoot web applications”.
According to the recent press release:
Salesforce.com relies on Coradiant products to measure the performance of the online services delivered to its customers. Coradiant TrueSight products provide detailed real-time measurement and data capture of the online service delivered to every individual customer. If there is any system or network issue that may negatively impact the end-user experience, TrueSight immediately detects, localizes, and analyzes the problem. Detailed metrics of the end-user experience are then provided to quickly root cause and correct the problem.
If you are a Software-as-a-service provider Coradiant’s service might be worth looking into.
Continue reading on Coradiant’s website.
Salesforce.com and Adobe catch some air
February 26, 2008
New Salesforce.com/Adobe Air Toolkit for Developers Launched
Antone Gonsalves of Information Week recently posted an article about Salesforce.com’s new Adobe Air Toolkit for developers.
If you’re new to Adobe Air, take a look at some very slick demos, including presos from Ebay and NASDAQ. Air looks kind of like flash on steroids and the new tool kit is bound to result in enhanced usability, interactivity and hopefully some inspired design in the new apps we’ll see gracing the AppExchange in the near future.
From Information week:
The Force.com toolkit, available at no charge, enables the building of rich Internet applications. RIAs, in general, are user interfaces that have the richness of desktop applications, but are built using Internet technologies.
Adobe AIR is a cross-operating system platform that allows developers to build Internet-connected applications that aren’t restricted to the Web browser. Flex is Adobe’s development framework. Developers using Saleforce.com’s new tools will be able to build AIR/Flex applications that extend the functionality of Salesforce.com’s on-demand customer and sales-force management application, and offer the software through Salesforce.com’s AppExchange marketplace, the company said.
Continue reading at Information week.
Salesforce.com Being Foolish?
February 26, 2008
The Motley Fool is taking another look at Salesforce.com this week, as the company gets ready to release its fourth quarter results. Fool.com notes that Salesforce is down 13% since the start of the year and discusses the dip as well as the upside of the stock in its latest article.
From Fool.com:
Software-as-a-Service pioneer salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) has had a rough time so far this year. With its stock down 13% since the dawn of 2008, this Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) partner company has been hit twice as hard as the broader S&P 500.
What analysts say:
- Buy, sell, or waffle? Thirty-one analysts follow salesforce.com. Seventeen of them still rate the stock a buy, 10 more a hold, and four a sell.
- Revenue. On average, they expect to see 45% quarterly sales growth to $209.1 million.
- Earnings. But profits are predicted to fall 43% to $0.04 per share.
Visit Salesforce.com’s Investor Relations site.
UPDATE: Feb 28th 2008, Salesforce shares jump 13% on positive news from its Q4 results.
Salesforce Ideas: Eureka!
February 25, 2008
Spring ‘08 release has had a week to sink in now and we’re beginning to see some chatter about Salesforce Ideas on the web.
This week I will be speaking at the Vancouver User Group meeting on how to get the most from Salesforce Ideas and have decided to post the thoughts making up my talk on the web.
Stay tuned for more posts on Ideas later this week. To kick things off, get your feet wet with this tutorial on Salesforce Ideas from Successforce.
Weekend Recap: Salesforce.com vs Google and other threads…
February 25, 2008
- Mark Hall of Computer world writes about Salesforce.com vs Google in the platform as a service category
- Scott Kincaid of the Dallas Salesforce.com User Group let the cat out of the bag on the new Salesforce.com group on linkedin.com . Learn more about the group here
- Sramana Mitra wrote an article for Forbes that touched on Salesforce.com’s potential acquisition of Zoho.com
- Mark Mangano posted about a 70’s party Salesforce employees put on…seems someone was taken with one of the bartenders…
Bluewolf continues expansion
February 22, 2008
Bluewolf, a leading Salesforce.com consulting partner, is continuing its expansion across the US and will be adding two new training centers in Boston and Philidelphia. The centers will be staffed by Salesforce.com authorized trainers and will host public training courses for Salesforce.com customers.
Benioff to Deliver Keynote at Annual On-Demand Conference
February 22, 2008
Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com’s Chariman and CEO will be giving the keynote presentation at investment bank Pacific Crest’s upcoming 2nd Annual On-Demand Conference next Thursday. Benioff will speak before 40 leading on demand companies including Salesforce AppExchange parters such as LucidEra and Vertical response as well as competitors SAP and Oracle.
View the official event site, here.
From the official release:
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Salesforce.com
An audio webcast of Mr. Benioff’s keynote will be available on salesforce.com’s website at http://www.salesforce.com/investor.
Nashville User Group formed
February 21, 2008
I just noticed a post about a new user group started in Nashville.
Visit the Nashville Salesforce.com User Group Blog.
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