Category: Salesforce.com

The week in Salesforce

In Salesforce.com land, the company has announced the release of Apex Content, described as “a dramatic expansion of [the Salesforce] platform and application strategy for managing and sharing all business information on demand.” With typical aggrandizement, chairman/CEO Marc Benioff stated that Content would “liberate customers from complex content management software like EMC Documentum and Microsoft […]

SynchroForce?

The folks at HitachiSoft today announced that the release of their firm’s SaaSWare SynchroMax service, thereby linking scheduler functions from Hitachi, Ltd.’s Groupmax groupware software with Salesforce. The launch of this service is a sort of benchmark, as it marks the first foray into integrating Salesforce with various applications using SaaSWare. Future plans call for […]

Salesforce move, no. 3

And one more out of Salesforce.com: StraightThrough today announced the availability of StraightThrough ACE for Hedge Funds on the AppExchange. ACE seeks to allows hedge funds to increase fund subscriptions by improving prospecting and service delivery with superior client profiling and business intelligence. ACE for Hedge Funds is tailored to the specialized informational and workflow […]

Salesforce, move no. 2

Salesforce.com produced some results of their own today, announcing that Bear Stearns Asset Management has successfully deployed Salesforce SFA, Salesforce Service & Support and applications downloaded from the salesforce.com AppExchange directory. BSAM will be using Salesforce in consolidating global customer data and integrating multiple critical business systems for portfolio performance management, billing, subscriptions and reporting. […]

Verticals Align with ‘Force

Verticals onDemand, a provider of industry-specific Salesforce platform-based CRM solutions, announced a partnership with sales resource optimization specialist TerrAlign. The companies will a partner to provide life sciences companies with a complete solution for the creation, implementation, and maintenance of territory alignment. Verticals onDemand’s flagship products VBioPharma and VMedical will be tightly integrated with TerrAlign […]

Calling Dr. Salesforce, Dr. Salesforce stat…

Verticals onDemand, a provider of industry-specific on-demand CRM solutions via Salesforce.com, announced today that its first product suite – known as VbioPharma – will be tailored for biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. Verticals onDemand co-chairman Mark Armenante, a long-time veteran of the industry, is quite enthusiastic today, saying “With both traditional industry players being recently acquired […]

Partnership with Salesforce.com: It’s Logix(al), Captain…

Logix Microsystems closed its week with the announcement of a partnership with Salesforce.com to deliver on-demand business/CRM software as a service offering through the group company Logix Consulting Global. Logix will provide strategic business consulting, implementation, and maintenance services to customers on Salesforce solutions including the AppExchange platform. The Logix initiative is supported by a […]

Don’t think of “Karma Chameleon” when you read this entry

Access Commerce, a provider of e-commerce and CRM software, this week released Cameleon EasyQuote for salesforce.com’s AppExchange. Cameleon EasyQuote for Salesforce is an on-demand quotation system which incorporates AJAX, providing features including an advanced quotation spreadsheet; catalog search; product and service configuration; pricing and promotion applications; and a proposal generation program. The Apex on-demand platform […]

Spacin’ with Salesforce.com

Yesterday saw the release of Salesforce.com’s Spring ‘07 release, the 22nd generation of its on-demand business services, but the buzz in the last 24 hours has been all about the heretofore unreleased product known as AppSpace. Representative headlines from those in the industry media include “Salesforce.com Aims to Do for Portals What MySpace Did for […]

American Dream alive and well in Nashville

For believers in the American dream, there’s a must-read story over at the Nashville City Paper’s online edition. Writer Amy Griffith profiles Rajeev and Reena Gupta, a married couple from India who originally came to the land of country music to go to university. Instead, the Guptas ultimately founded an IT solutions consulting firm called […]