Salesforce.com announced new customization features of Winter ’07, including full componentization of its analytical dashboards aimed at allowing users to create, share, and combine new components that analyze and present data from Salesforce.
Salesforce.com Buys Into Google AdWords
The online CRM software company picked up a three-person software company whose expertise in tracking sales leads arriving from Google advertising will become part of the Salesforce software.
JotSpot Tracker Integrating With Salesforce
The first of several on-demand applications available from JotSpot through Salesforce’s AppExchange will transform Excel spreadsheets into browser-accessible versions.
Salesforce.com’s Finances Fail To Impress
Salesforce.com, a maker of CRM software, generated mostly disappointing financial news in the first quarter. Revenue rose by an impressive 63 percent, but the company’s bottom line weakened, and it gave disappointing guidance. Its stock dipped by 1.6 percent as the news was released.
Salesforce.com Paying $15M For Sendia
The CRM company wants to extend its applications to mobile platforms, and the Sendia acquisition will help with Salesforce’s launch of AppExchange Mobile.
Salesforce.com Deploys AppExchange
The AppExchange Developer Network provides services related to building, coding, integrating and sharing on-demand applications with the platform Salesforce announced in San Diego.
Salesforce.com Outage Length Questioned
What Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff characterized as a “minor” 30-minute outage has drawn criticism from some customers who experienced much longer disturbances.
Salesforce Hits Problems
This is why I said “give Six Apart a break” a few days ago. Turns out that Salesforce.com had an outage the other day too.
Oracle Wants Smackdown On Salesforce
A couple of months ago, Oracle added Siebel to the fold and in the process began their squeeze of rivals like Saleforce.com. At this point, Oracle said they have no plans to buy Salesforce. Instead Oracle plans to rub out the CRM.
Salesforce.com Entering Application Sales Arena
Amazon.com has been noted previously as developing a marketplace for software application services, while CRM suddenly becomes a hot concept.