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Salesforce customers hit by service disruption
News A Salesforce.com outage lasting nearly a day cut off access to critical business data for many of the company's customers on Tuesday in what appears to be Salesforce's most severe service disruption to date.
[December 22, 2005, 8:40]
Adobe Systems Case Study: Salesforce.com
White Papers The challenge for Salesforce.com was to show subscribers how to make the most out of salesforce.com products, from rollout to advanced customization. Rather than rely on static Microsoft PowerPoint slides, salesforce.com adopted the Breeze Training...
[June 14, 2006, 0:00]
Salesforce unveils CRM Spring '09
News Salesforce.com on Tuesday unveiled Salesforce CRM Spring '09, offering up such customer-relationship management features as content assembly, content delivery, content tracking and 'Opportunity Genius'.
[February 11, 2009, 15:45]
Salesforce.com to file for IPO
News Salesforce.com, one of the most talked-about software companies of recent times, has filed for an initial public offering with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). For a software company its message has ironically been one of 'anti...
[December 18, 2003, 15:55]
Salesforce Sites lets businesses build in the cloud
News Businesses can now build and run their external websites using technology from software-as-a-service company Salesforce.com. Tim Barker, Salesforce.com's EMEA senior product director, told ZDNet UK's sister site, silicon.com: "The ability for data...
[June 16, 2009, 8:13]
Salesforce.com IPO 'imminent'
News Software maker Salesforce.com plans to offer its shares for public trading as early as March, according to a source familiar with the company's plans. Salesforce said its shares will be traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the stock symbol...
[February 19, 2004, 8:05]
Salesforce launches iTunes podcasts
News True to its "no expense spared" approach to marketing, Salesforce.com has signed up to Apple’s iTunes service and is releasing a set of podcasts to trumpet the Salesforce message. Salesforce is making six podcasts dealing with best practice for the...
[April 7, 2006, 17:00]
Salesforce.com IPO delayed by accounting questions
News Federal regulators in the US have taken issue with a change in accounting methods at software maker Salesforce.com, prolonging their scrutiny of the company's plans to offer its stock for public trading.
[April 12, 2004, 10:45]
Salesforce.com launches upgrade in Europe
News Salesforce.com has expanded the capabilities of its customer information system, adding programs designed to let companies keep tabs on customer contracts and product catalogues. A lingering concern about the Salesforce model is whether customers...
[April 14, 2004, 16:25]
Salesforce.com pushes new model for AppExchange
News Online CRM vendor Salesforce.com has launched a $25 per user version of its application sharing system AppExchange that will be available for sale only to independent software vendors. The new strategy means software companies can sell their...
[May 25, 2006, 17:20]
Salesforce aims for $85m from IPO
News Salesforce.com plans to raise as much as $85m (£47.8m) in the initial public offering of its stock, according to a regulatory filing issued on Tuesday. Salesforce, which sells business applications software, will offer 10 million shares -- nearly...
[April 21, 2004, 8:35]
Salesforce.com forges closer links with Office
News Salesforce.com launched the Sforce Developer Program for Microsoft Office on Wednesday, and it includes free tools and technical information targeted at developers. Salesforce.com executives are scheduled to more fully detail the program at the...
[February 2, 2005, 16:45]
Salesforce.com hit by third lawsuit
News A group of Salesforce.com shareholders has filed a class-action lawsuit against the online software provider, alleging that it misled investors to prop up its IPO price. It's the third shareholder suit to target Salesforce with essentially similar...
[August 2, 2004, 10:10]
Salesforce.com delays IPO
News Salesforce.com has delayed its high-profile initial public offering, which had been set for next week, according to sources. Salesforce.com chairman, CEO and founder Marc Benioff were profiled in a lengthy New York Times article on 9 May, covering...
[May 18, 2004, 8:25]
Salesforce to ape iTunes and eBay
News Customer information systems may not be a very sexy topic, but Salesforce.com chief executive Marc Benioff is trying to spice it up a bit with a new service he's comparing to both eBay and Apple's iTunes Music Store.
[September 13, 2005, 9:20]
Salesforce hits 500,000-user milestone
News CRM company Salesforce.com has reported good figures for the second quarter of 2006 that topped analysts' expectations, and revealed that its subscriber base has topped 500,000 for the first time. Revenue rose 64 percent to $118m (£62m) as...
[August 17, 2006, 13:35]
Salesforce.com hits back at the critics
News Salesforce.com has responded to some of the criticism it has suffered after service outages left users without their CRM services for as long as an hour and a half. These problems hit the headlines just before last Christmas when Salesforce faced...
[March 3, 2006, 9:35]
Salesforce offers hosted accounting software
News Accounting company Coda and on-demand specialist Salesforce.com claim to have come up with a way for companies to handle their accounting software without having to pay for a full-scale application. Coda@2Go offers a full-scale accounting software...
[May 6, 2008, 17:25]
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. Salesforce executives said that many small-business owners are still leery of the cloud, but do...
[August 27, 2009, 15:45]
Salesforce sees strong second quarter
News Salesforce.com has delivered strong second-quarter results and raised its financial targets for fiscal 2010. In a statement, Salesforce said it had added 3,900 net paying customers to hit a total of 63,200.
[August 21, 2009, 17:12]
