San Francisco-based Salesforce.com has announced the release of its new AppExchange OEM Edition. Billed as “the industry’s first on-demand OEM offering,” AppExchange OEM Edition is an on-demand platform designed to be appropriate for start-up companies and established ISVs alike to develop new on-demand applications that “reach well beyond CRM.” Salesforce.com chairman / CEO Marc Benioff […]
With a touch of pride, Wipro representatives were able to announce their new global strategic SI partnership with San Francisco, Calif.-based Salesforce.com. Under terms of the alliance, Wipro will provide consultation and implementation service for the on-demand applications of Salesforce and AppExchange. Wipro is now touting the combination of Salesforce.com AppExchange on-demand platform and CRM […]
According to this news item, it was a huge monday for CRM Manager yesterday: The provider of full-service implementation and post services for Salesforce.com clients announced the signing of ten new clients in the first quarter of 2006. The Malven, Pa.-based company, founded in just 2005, has found prosperity in piggybacking onto the bandwagon of […]
Already big news, the mobile phone-ready AppExchange by Salesforce.com is generating yet more buzz. SecureLM.Net for AppExchange has been released under the auspices of salesforce.com and Secured Dimensions. AppExchange itself is the world’s first on-demand application platform and salesforce.com hopes SecureLM.Net will generate some firsts of its own. Salesforce.com is touting the product as a […]
In response to a wave of crashes plaguing Salesforce.com that has been called farcical, Salesboom today announced the unveiling of the Salesforce Migration Magic Button developed specifically for disenchanted Salesforce customers. The recent salesforce.com crash on Black Friday was its fourth publicly acknowledged crash in four months. Salesboom offers a fully refundable service level agreement […]
Though it’s spring, Moscow-based InvisibleCRM is still cool. The company has announced its inclusion in Gartner’s prestigious “Cool Vendors in CRM Sales and Customer Service and Support 2006.” The “Cool Vendors” report is a biannual listing of IT service and outsourcing vendors that Gartner defines as “a company that offers technologies or products that are […]
Mobile technology manufacturer Santa Monica, Calif.-based Sendia Corporation was acquired today by Salesforce.com. The first acquisition by CRM technology provider, the Sendia purchase represented a $15 million cash transaction. The move was precipitated by the desire to augment its AppExchange platform with mobile functionality. Indeed, soon after the announcement of acquisition came the presentation of […]
Reacting to the recent near-catastrophic power failure at Salesforce.com, contributing editor David Sims over at TMCnet has posted a nice analysis regarding the pros and cons of hosted and installed CRM systems. In Sims’ opinion, hosted CRM, though the popular choice du jour, is still too immature to meet long-term business needs. Citing a press […]
Six podcasts are in the works over at Salesforce.com. The Apple iTunes service will host the podcasts, with which Salesforce hopes to show off their AppExchange service. Salesforce is said to be using AppExchange to carve a niche in sectors outside the CRM sphere.
It was an up and down week for Salesforce.com. On the plus side, Salesforce was proud to announce their March success with a statement to the media Wednesday (5 March) announcing that the company had “delivered 99.999% planned uptime and availability on its service to its customers" in the month. Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff was […]