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Force.com improves link to Google's cloud
News Salesforce.com has introduced a new version of Force.com that improves the cloud-computing platform's integration with Google App Engine. The launch follows on from an initial version of Force.com for Google App Engine, released in December, that...
[May 28, 2009, 15:36]
Salesforce chief launches Force.com Sites
News With Force.com Sites, customers can build, host and allow individual users to customise a public web page using Force.com technologies. At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Marc Benioff, chairman and chief executive of Salesforce.com...
[November 4, 2008, 13:46]
Salesforce, Adobe bring Flash to Force.com
News Salesforce.com and Adobe on Monday announced an alliance that brings the power of the Adobe Flash platform to Salesforce's Force.com, where developers build — and often share — business apps for the cloud.
[October 26, 2009, 14:18]
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]
Talisma Launches Next Generation Sales Force Automation Solution by Moneycontrol.com
White Papers Ltd.a leading provider of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions, announced that the availability of their next generation Sales Force Automation Solution that allows businesses to automate their sales processes with sales tools that...
[May 23, 2009, 1:19]
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. The service extends the company's existing Force.com service, used to build internal business applications...
[November 3, 2008, 9:33]
Salesforce Sites lets businesses build in the cloud
News Launched on Monday, Force.com Sites essentially uses the Force.com cloud platform to support customer websites and online applications. As well as building websites, customers can also use other Force.com functionality such as analytics...
[June 16, 2009, 8:13]
Salesforce lets resellers package up its cloud
News Salesforce.com is opening its Force.com cloud platform to all third-party channel resellers, from the local one-man IT shop to big systems integrators. It allows them to maintain an ongoing revenue stream by letting them add applications and...
[August 27, 2009, 15:45]
Google links to Salesforce.com cloud
News Force.com for Google App Engine, announced at the Cloudforce conference on Monday, lets programmers draw on Force.com's enterprise-oriented features as well as on the more consumer-oriented capabilities of Google App Engine, the companies said.
[December 8, 2008, 16:11]
Salesforce offers hosted accounting software
News Coda@2Go offers a full-scale accounting software system available through the Force.com, platform-as-a-service (PaaS) model running on Salesforce.com, the companies claim. Force.com is Salesforce's effort to get its PaaS model accepted by companies...
[May 6, 2008, 17:25]
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]
Salesforce sees strong second quarter
News In recent months, the company has pushed further into cloud computing, launching a new version of is Force.com cloud-computing platform tailored to Google App Engine and introducing a tool for building websites on Force.com.
[August 21, 2009, 17:12]
Salesforce tackles service through the cloud
News Introducing Service Cloud, Marc Benioff, chairman and chief executive of Salesforce.com, said: "This has been made possible through the emergence of native cloud-computing platforms like Force.com that are built to harness the power of other...
[January 15, 2009, 16:02]
Police force hit with iPod DoS attack
News Malicious spammers have hit Cambridgeshire police with a denial of service attack by threatening recipients of emails to charge their credit cards unless they call a 'customer service' number that is actually the main switchboard number for the...
[December 5, 2003, 14:45]
Cloud guides Salesforce.com to $1bn revenue
News Salesforce.com has been branching out, however, offering its Force.com system to let companies build their own custom web-based applications or third-party programmers offer their own extensions to those customers.
[February 26, 2009, 7:36]
Shuttleworth: Amazon will win cloud battle
News Amazon's EC2 competes with cloud platforms from Salesforce.com (Force.com), Rackspace, Savvis, Sun and, later this year, Microsoft with its Azure platform. The winner will be either explicitly Amazon EC2 or, if [other players] get into gear, an...
[October 5, 2009, 17:17]
Microsoft throws its weight behind the cloud
News An early example of this trend is Salesforce.com's proprietary Force.com platform. This week Microsoft gave evidence that it will continue to be a major force for at least the next decade. The company outlined its products and strategies that more...
[November 4, 2008, 10:37]
Businesses still wary of SaaS
News On the one hand there are the on-demand pure-play start-ups, such as NetSuite and Salesforce.com, with their sales force automation and CRM tools, and on the other there are the traditional big vendors such as Microsoft, Oracle and SAP, which have...
[September 21, 2007, 13:15]
Overture founder set to unveil new search venture
News Idealab has been a weighty force in Web search since Gross founded Overture, formerly GoTo.com, in 1998. Bill Gross, the driving force behind commercial search pioneer Overture Services, is once again going for gold in Web search.
[October 5, 2004, 10:40]
CRM: The choice just got harder
News Experts believe this latest customer relationship management product could force down the cost of CRM and make rival vendors such as Salesforce.com raise their game Another disruptive force on the horizon is the potential of open-source...
[November 15, 2004, 14:20]
