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Salesforce.com: Company profile - its technology, strategy and challenges

...user per month for the most comprehensive version of the Service Cloud. Force.com and AppExchangeForce.com was launched in 2007 to allow customers and... Read more

11 October, 2010 by Tim Ferguson

Force.com 2 brings new clouds to Salesforce

...service has taken a step forward with a major update to its Force.com developer platform. The company introduced Force.com 2, updated with five... Read more

9 December, 2010 by Simon Bisson

Salesforce: Old platforms stifle business apps

If companies keep using old-school middleware platforms, then the development of enterprise applications will be held back, Salesforce chief executive tells a Dreamforce crowd Read more

2 September, 2011 by Suzanne Tindal
ServiceMax Mobile 8.0

ServiceMax Mobile 8.0

...invoicing, collaboration and more at their fingertips! Built with the power of Force.com, ServiceMax iPad app is cloud-enabled and fully integrated with the... Read more

4 April, 2012
Why Organizations Are Migrating from IBM Lotus Notes to Salesforce.com's <endeca_term>Force.com</endeca_term> Platform-as-a-Service

Why Organizations Are Migrating from IBM Lotus Notes to Salesforce.com's Force.com Platform-as-a-Service

Migrating your Lotus Notes apps is easier than you think. With Force.com your Lotus Apps will automatically become: Cloud apps, with no infrastructure... Read more

28 April, 2011
BMC Service Desk on <endeca_term>Force.com</endeca_term>

BMC Service Desk on Force.com

The presenter of this webcast will explain BMC Service Desk on Force.com delivers cloud-enabled service desk, self-service, and inventory management capabilities... Read more

2 December, 2010
Secure, Private, and Trustworthy: Enterprise Cloud Computing With <endeca_term>Force.com</endeca_term>

Secure, Private, and Trustworthy: Enterprise Cloud Computing With Force.com

An ever-growing list of enterprises trusts the Force.com cloud computing platform to deliver critical business applications, in large part... Read more

6 July, 2010
<endeca_term>Force.com</endeca_term> Utility Belt 1.2

Force.com Utility Belt 1.2

Force.com Utility Belt is an extension for Google Chrome. It gives all... Read more

27 October, 2010
X-as-a-Service: Cloud Computing With Google App Engine, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and <endeca_term>Force.com</endeca_term>

X-as-a-Service: Cloud Computing With Google App Engine, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Force.com

Internet has become pervasive in the people daily life and Cloud computing is an emerging paradigm where computing... Read more

1 December, 2011
Top 5 Reasons to Move Lotus Notes Apps to the Cloud With <endeca_term>Force.com</endeca_term>

Top 5 Reasons to Move Lotus Notes Apps to the Cloud With Force.com

First released in 1989 and revolutionary in its time, Lotus Notes first became popular as a corporate email system, then... Read more

24 June, 2010
Top 5 Reasons to move Lotus Notes apps to the cloud

Top 5 Reasons to move Lotus Notes apps to the cloud

Force.com offers you an efficient and cost-saving way off Lotus Notes... Read more

22 June, 2010
Fujitsu: Cheap servers can't fit all cloud roles

Fujitsu: Cheap servers can't fit all cloud roles

Fujitsu chief technology officer Joseph Reger explains why we still need high-end hardware despite schemes such as Facebook's Open Compute Project pushing commodity servers in cloud datacentres. Read more

28 April, 2012 by Jack Clark

5 Cloud Providers to Watch in 2012

2011 was no doubt an year of cloud innovations and developments. Several cloud services including, IaaS, PaaS and SaaS... Read more

17 January, 2012

Salesforce.com focuses on HR with Rypple acquisition

...business data, and a marketplace of enterprise cloud apps built on its Force.com cloud platform. Earlier this month ERP software specialist SAP announced it... Read more

16 December, 2011 by Nick Heath
Salesforce: Privacy needs consensus

Salesforce: Privacy needs consensus

...and unique app to get it [privacy-]wrapped. The trust model in Force.com allows you literally to check the boxes — and say, this kind... Read more

1 October, 2011 by Tom Espiner

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