Salesforce.com today announced that Magma Design Automation Inc. has extended Salesforce from sales to its four customer support contact centers in the U.S., Asia and Europe. Further, Salesforce numbers show that Magma achieved a nearly 10 percent increase in staff productivity thanks to the customer service benefits of the program. Using the on-demand platform Apex, […]
Okay, it appears that pesky non-news producing four-day Thanksgiving holiday thing is over. The proof? Salesforce.com today announced the forthcoming release of a “Family of Multi-Tenant Integration Solutions” known as ApexConnect. Release date on this mammoth project was announced as Winter 2007. Apex promises “revolutionizing” (there’s that word again) and “simplifying integration for CIOs and […]
The Salesforce numbers are out for quarter three and, as always, viewpoints have emerged. Everyone is, of course, generally pleased with the numbers. Records and/or new highs reported by the company include: • Salesforce’s status as the first SaaS company to exceed a $500 million annual revenue run-rate; • revenue of $130 million, a new […]
Business Week is reporting that shares of Salesforce.com Inc. have “soared to a new one-year high Monday.” The Salesforce earnings report will be released tomorrow, and investors are extremely optimistic. Quotes Business Week: “‘We have learned that Salesforce.com and IBM have just recently formed an alliance to target the small-medium business market, yet another indicator […]
Well, it seems some time has passed since we’ve heard from Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff. And perhaps the wait will soon be over. On Wednesday, Salesforce.com will be releasing its third-quarter fiscal year results. The company will host a conference call at 5pm Eastern Standard Time to discuss the financial results with the investment community. […]
Is this true? Has QuestionPro, a provider of online survey services, really become available as a certified application on salesforce.com’s AppExchange? Hey, would The Chump lie to you? Is there anyone out there who shouldn’t be informed that, according to company officials, QuestionPro for AppExchange is designed for businesses to measure the satisfaction of existing […]
After a period of relative quiet of, what, two or three weeks, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff has arisen again to enter industry media quotelines. Last week, he hit the media with “the most important announcement Salesforce.com has ever made,” and naturally the story wouldn’t possibly end there. As The Chump reported Wednesday, Salesforce.com has opened […]
BackWeb Technologies Ltd., a provider of solutions designed to offline enable web applications, and Salesforce.com today announced that BackWeb’s Offline Service for Salesforce will be demonstrated at Dreamforce 2006, and will be available via general release on AppExchange by early 2007. The BackWeb Offline Service for Salesforce offers expanded offline use of Salesforce even when […]
Marc Benioff knows how to make attention-grabbing statements and today he laid down a stereotypical whopper: "This is the most important announcement Salesforce.com has ever made," said the CEO / chairman. Um, really, Marc? The jist of the earth-shattering news is that Salesforce.com has opened its code to outside developers for the first time with […]
Someone at White Springs has been busy. As evidence, White Springs and salesforce.com representatives today announced that White Springs has recreated no fewer than six sales training methodologies with partners in on-demand applications for immediate availability on salesforce.com’s AppExchange. Holden International ‘s efox Software Solutions suite provides sales coaching guidance to salespeople early in a […]