Stories about: Salesforce.com

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    Benioff trumpets Force.com platform's success 20/11/2009 08:51:00

    Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff on Thursday attempted to cement an image of the vendor as a full-blown application development platform provider, not merely a purveyor of SaaS (software-as-a-service) applications.
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    Salesforce.com announces 'Chatter' social-networking app 19/11/2009 08:14:00

    Salesforce.com opened up its annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco on Wednesday by previewing Salesforce Chatter, a social-networking application the vendor dubbed a "Facebook for the Enterprise."
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    Microsoft ups cloud computing ante with Azure, 'Dallas' 18/11/2009 10:11:00

    Microsoft announced that its Azure cloud computing platform will be launched into production on January 1st of 2010. Chief software architect Ray Ozzie also unveiled details of a cloud computing project, codenamed 'Dallas'.
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    Microsoft adds app, data marketplace to Windows Azure 18/11/2009 06:30:00

    Microsoft said on Tuesday that its upcoming cloud computing platform will come with marketplaces for both online apps built to run on Azure as well as datasets that companies can use to build their own apps.
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    Open source software ready for big business 09/11/2009 17:07:00

    The combination of pumped-up technical features and relatively low prices are giving vendors with open source-based products more inroads to corporate networks than ever before.
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    Microsoft pushes switchover deal for CRM Online 04/11/2009 08:49:00

    Microsoft is trying to steal away Salesforce.com and Oracle CRM on Demand customers with a new offer that will provide them with six months' access to its own CRM Online application at no charge if they sign a 12-month contract.
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    Open-source CRM and ERP: New kids on the cloud 31/10/2009 04:37:00

    When Nikon decided to merge and consolidate customer data from more than 25 disparate sources into one system, officials didn't want the burden of maintaining it in-house, yet whatever they went with had to meet all their requirements and work picture-perfect.
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    Microsoft wants ISO security certification for its Cloud services 24/10/2009 22:37:00

    Microsoft wants to get its suite of hosted messaging and collaboration products certified to the ISO 27001 international information security standard, part of an effort to try and assure customers about the security of its cloud computing services. It comes amid broad and continuing doubts about the ability of cloud vendors in general to properly secure their services.
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    Salesforce.com's Service Cloud sparks legal storm 23/10/2009 07:43:00

    A Georgia company has filed suit in federal court against Salesforce.com, saying the on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) vendor's use of the phrase "Service Cloud" violates its trademark.
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    The challenges of managing SaaS projects 22/10/2009 02:36:00

    Even experienced developers can run into problems developing and deploying custom applications for software-as-a-service platforms because SaaS vendors don't always embrace the accepted corporate processes for build, test and release. The trick is to adapt your configuration management processes to meet SaaS challenges.
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    CIA Building Secure Cloud-based System 19/10/2009 21:34:00

    One of the U.S. government's strongest advocates for cloud computing is also one of its most secretive operations: the Central Intelligence Agency.
 
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