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Salesforce chief pans competitors' cloud efforts
News Speaking at Salesforce's Dreamforce user conference in San Francisco, Benioff questioned SAP's delayed software-as-a-service ERP project, Business ByDesign even inviting the German company to use Salesforce.com's own Force.com developer platform.
[November 5, 2008, 6:30]
What do I know about social media? My 2009 predictions assessed
Blog When it came to practical demonstrations of Social CRM in action last year, Salesforce.com predictably led the way at their November 2008 Dreamforce conference with a presentation showing user forms in Facebook where the data found its way into...
[December 8, 2009, 11:09]
Cisco: Future is about collaboration
News At the Dreamforce 07 conference in San Francisco, John Chambers, chief executive of Cisco, discussed new collaboration technologies that will drive innovation and productivity inside the enterprise, including wikis, video and social networking.
[September 19, 2007, 12:44]
Salesforce CEO unveils Force.com
News At the Dreamforce 07 conference in San Francisco, Salesforce.com's chief executive, Marc Benioff, talked about the new Force.com offering, which will act as a platform for the company's various software services.
[September 19, 2007, 12:33]
Salesforce demos app for Facebook
News At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Marc Benioff, chairman and chief executive of Salesforce.com, and Steve Fisher, senior vice president of the platform division at Salesforce, demonstrate a recruiting program made possible by making...
[November 5, 2008, 11:21]
Salesforce chief launches Force.com Sites
News At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Marc Benioff, chairman and chief executive of Salesforce.com, announces the company's latest venture. With Force.com Sites, customers can build, host and allow individual users to customise a public...
[November 4, 2008, 13:46]
Salesforce.com gets a little help from its friends
News Also speaking at the three-day Dreamforce conference, Google vice-president of engineering Adam Bosworth said Salesforce.com and companies like it build around a service business model, were eating into the margins of traditional packaged software...
[November 3, 2004, 9:58]
Bush drops in on Salesforce.com conference
News Shock quickly turned to amusement when on closer examination the individual in question turned out to be a very impressive lookalike -- Salesforce.com's nod to the fact that the first day of its Dreamforce conference coincided with the US election.
[November 3, 2004, 8:18]
Salesforce: Software is hand-to-hand combat
News Speaking to journalists at the company's Dreamforce London conference on Wednesday, Benioff was asked about the company's plan to promote the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) model alongside the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, for which it is...
[May 8, 2008, 17:39]
CRM: The choice just got harder
News Dreamforce: Salesforce.com's latest software package will include CustomForce, which it says allows companies to tailor-make the application to their needs Dreamforce: Pat Sueltz, president of marketing, technology and systems at Salesforce.com...
[November 15, 2004, 14:20]
Can the cloud be trusted?
News ZDNet.com correspondent Sumi Das talks to senior editor Sam Diaz at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco about why some are hesitant to put their faith in the cloud. Diaz also discusses how social-networking tools, such as blogs, podcasts and...
[November 5, 2008, 10:40]
Salesforce.com demos Service Cloud 2
News At Dreamforce Global Gathering 2009 in San Francisco, Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff and Kraig Swensrud, senior vice president of product marketing, show attendees the company's new customer service software, Service Cloud 2.
[November 27, 2009, 8:24]
More on CRM meets Web 2.0: Salesforce.com and Facebook
Blog If you don't follow Salesforce.com, it's their Dreamforce expo this week, where users and developers of the on-demand, cloud dominator wannabe all meet up and talk about how great their choice was. Just a few weeks after LinkedIn announced an...
[November 4, 2008, 9:03]
Google.org: Tech industry can help save the world
News Speaking at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce user conference in San Francisco this week, Brilliant said Google's charitable arm, Google.org, has donated around $150m (£95m) in grants to charitable organisations since 2004 and allotted around $350m in...
[November 7, 2008, 8:16]
Salesforce.com expands cloud-computing reach
News The company is expected to announce the new service, called Force.com Sites, at its Dreamforce user conference on Monday in San Francisco. Salesforce.com is expanding its cloud-computing service with a new option that lets customers more easily...
[November 3, 2008, 9:33]
Salesforce apps to give Facebook a business twist
News Facebook grew its active membership total from 90 million in early July to 120 million now, said chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, speaking at Saleforce.com's Dreamforce conference in San Francisco.
[November 4, 2008, 7:09]
Benioff unveils winter Salesforce offering
News The winter 2006 release is expected in the fourth quarter of this year, and the company's chairman and chief executive Marc Benioff previewed some elements at the company's Dreamforce customer event in San Francisco.
[September 14, 2005, 8:10]
Salesforce offers hosted accounting software
News Coda@2Go will be officially launched on Wednesday at the Dreamforce Europe '08 conference in London. Accounting company Coda and on-demand specialist Salesforce.com claim to have come up with a way for companies to handle their accounting software...
[May 6, 2008, 17:25]
Salesforce to launch social networking for businesses
News Chief executive Marc Benioff announced the service in San Francisco at the company's Dreamforce conference, which he said drew 19,000 attendees. Salesforce.com on Wednesday announced a social-networking service called Salesforce Chatter for its...
[November 19, 2009, 8:57]
Salesforce chief hails customisation capability
News But it will be up to Salesforce.com to change the software, he told thousands of attendees at the company's Dreamforce conference in a keynote address. Salesforce.com chief executive Marc Benioff trumpeted the company's Apex technology as the next...
[October 10, 2006, 9:45]
