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Salesforce announces Asia data center
May 22, 2008
Salesforce.com has announced that will be establishing its first international data center in
In addition to the new data center Salesforce.com also announced plans to establish a network operations center in
Salesforce.com’s CEO, Marc Benioff, had this to say about the announcement:
“The decision to build our first data center outside of the U.S. is clear evidence that companies globally are abandoning the failed client-server software model and are looking for a new model that allows them to focus on innovation as opposed to infrastructure.”
The announcement was smartly delivered the same day Salesforce released its Q1 and Fiscal 2009 Financials helping to create an upward lift on the company’s shares and is a big step toward Salesforce.com’s continued growth in Europe and Asia.
Salesforce.com stock to jump May 22nd?
May 12, 2008
Based on all the attention NYSE:CRM has been getting of late, and how the share price has reacted to positive news and rumors of the past, we’ll likely see a jump in shares of Salesforce.com at market open on May 22nd.
So what’s so important about the 22nd? It’s the first day after Salesforce releases its q1 financial results.
From the official release:
Salesforce.com announced that its first quarter and fiscal 2009 results will be released on Wednesday, May 21, 2008, after the close of the market. The company will host a conference call at 2:00 PM (PT) / 5:00 PM (ET) to discuss the financial results with the investment community. A live web broadcast of the event will be available on the salesforce.com Investor Relations website at http://www.salesforce.com/investor. A live dial-in is available domestically at 866-901-SFDC or 866-901-7332 and internationally at 706-902-1764. A replay will be available at (800) 642-1687 or (706) 645-9291, passcode 46678383, until midnight (ET) June 13, 2008.
Visual Force now widely available
May 7, 2008
First announced last September at Dreamforce 2007, Visual Force, Salesforce.com’s new User-Interface-as-a-Service, is now widely available with the Summer ‘08 release. A key part of the Force.com Platform, Visualforce gives developers complete control over the Salesforce user interface to create any user interface for any Force.com application and extend it to virtually any device.
For those of you who saw the original demo in ‘07 Visual Force looks quite promising. The idea that you can now create applications for any kind of device (mobile phones, hand helds, tablets etc) without having to wory about the hardware version, is quite amazing.
From the official release:
Salesforce.com also announced the availability of Visualforce Components today, new Visualforce technology that gives developers the power to add, remove, and reassemble the basic building blocks of the Salesforce UI. With Visualforce Components, ISVs and IT departments can manipulate the components of the Salesforce UI, add their own custom-built components or bring in ISV-built components to quickly build business applications on Force.com that are as easy to use as the best Web 2.0 apps. The availability of Visualforce signals a new milestone for the Platform-as-a-Service industry, providing unprecedented control over the user interface of business applications delivered entirely via the cloud.
Visualforce: Design and Deliver Any User Experience Anywhere As a Service
A breakthrough for the Platform-as-a-Service industry, Visualforce is a new technology for developing powerful user interfaces (UIs) that can be used to enhance the standard Salesforce SaaS applications or to create custom PaaS applications on Force.com. Visualforce includes all the resources developers need to build rich, interactive applications and user experiences for a variety of audiences, applications, and devices. More than 4,000 developers have already created more than 11,000 custom interfaces in the Visualforce developer preview program.
Combined with the powerful logic and workflow intelligence provided by Apex Code, Visualforce offers the flexibility to meet the requirements of applications that feature many different types of users on a variety of devices. Visualforce uses the best of Internet technology, including HTML, AJAX and Adobe Flex, for business applications, making them as innovative and as effective as their consumer Web counterparts.
Summer 2008 Release Notes Now Available
May 6, 2008
Salesforce.com’s Summer 2008 Release documentation is now available.
There are quite a few enhancements coming down the pipes including multiple Blackberry/mobile updates, Force.com enhancements, additional details on Google Apps, and more.
I always look forward to the next version although it can be challenging to make use of existing features let alone the new ones that come out every 4 months.
What are your thoughts on getting the most out of each new release? Post thoughts to comments.
Editor’s note: Thanks to Mark B for alerting me to this one!
How does your sales team measure up? Live webinar.
May 2, 2008
One of the things I enjoy most about being a Salesforce.com customer is the access to great, ongoing CRM education in the form of webinars, user conferences, courses and local user groups.
On that note, I received word that Salesforce.com is hosting a live webinar on Tuesday May 13th at 10:00 AM PDT entitled “See How Your Sales Team Stacks Up – 4 Key Metrics”. If you’re looking to gain a better understanding of how to use Salesforce.com for sales force automation (SFA) this will be another good resource for you to check out.
Metrics to be focused on include:
- Percentage of sales force achieving quota
- Sales rep variable compensation breakdown
- Percentage of deals that close as forecast
- Top three reasons companies win competitive deals
As a bonus for registering, Salesforce is giving away the 2008 CSO Insights Sales Performance Optimization Report—a $1,495 value.
Salesforce.com for Google Apps Announced.
April 14, 2008
This could be the Outlook / Office killer we’ve all been waiting for.
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff announced today that Salesforce.com and Google have expanded their partnership and launched Salesforce for Google Apps, a complete integration between Salesforce.com and Google’s online office productivity apps.
See a video on YouTube here and the official Salesforce.com blog announcement here.
You can now use:
- Salesforce + Gmail
- Salesforce + Google Talk
- Salesforce+ Google Docs
- Salesforce + Google Calendar
- Salesforce + Google Start Page
From the official announcement:
Today, along with our global strategic partner, Google, we’re opening an exciting new chapter in The End of Software: Salesforce for Google Apps @ $10/user/month.
At an event in San Francisco today, salesforce.com and Google will announce Salesforce for Google Apps. We are expanding our successful partnership by combining the power of our award-winning CRM apps with Google’s on-demand Gmail, Calendar, Talk, Docs, spreadsheet, and presentation applications. Best of all, they are all seamless integrated. The Office has a new home in the cloud, and it’s now live to our more than 41,000 customers and 1.1 million subscribers around the world. We are also entering into a major reseller agreement with Google by offering our customers the opportunity to have a single source for support and billing for the most powerful combination of the best SaaS applications in the world.
Salesforce for Google Apps is built on a combination of Force.com and Google’s open platform, together the world’s largest cloud computing platform-as-a-service. This new phase of our partnership represents great opportunities for entrepreneurs around the world as the world’s largest cloud computing platform is now available for building the SaaS killer apps of tomorrow. The Force.com and Google platforms are making cloud computing ready for the enterprise.
Are you excited? What is this going to mean for businesses? What will the impact be? Post thoughts to comments.
Google Apps and Salesforce.com integration to be announced
April 8, 2008
Techcrunch posted an article yesterday about upcoming announcements to be made by Salesforce.com, including one regarding a “deep integration” with Google Apps. Apparently, Salesforce will be reselling Google Apps, such as Google Docs and Gmail for organizations to its own customer base and will be tightly integrating these services into its own applications.
To learn more, head over to Tech Crunch.
Clash of the TITANS
April 2, 2008
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and SAP Co-founder to dual it out in debate.
Shout-outs to Boyan over at Warrior point for sending this my way. Apparently, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff will be going toe to toe with SAP Co-Founder and ex-CEO Hasso Plattner tomorrow night.
- Learn more on the Warrior Point Blog here.
- Find out more about the Clash of the Titan’s Movie here.
- Or catch the live webcast from Salesforce.com here.
Update: the IT Spot blog has posted a recap of the debate and declared Benioff the winner by technical knockout…CNet also posted a recap here.
Benioff to make special announcements
March 26, 2008
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff has apparently scheduled an internal meeting with staff to make some important announcements next month on April the 14th.
I can’t wait to see the variety of stories that get cooked up over this one…
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