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Salesforce.com previews Analytics and Dashboard Mash-Ups

Today Salesforce.com announced additional new customization features for their upcoming "Winter '07" version of salesforce.

September 12, 2006 by Richard MacManus

LucidEra opens for business intelligence on demand

Dubbing itself the salesforce.com of business intelligence, LucidEra ends its beta period and formally opens for business.

March 5, 2007 by Dan Farber

How Salesforce has evolved (over 20 versions) to be a Web Office platform

This is Part 2 of my interview with Kendall Collins, VP of marketing at Salesforce.com.

July 31, 2006 by Richard MacManus

Salesforce.com's platform ambitions

In 2000, Salesforce.com started selling a basic CRM solution delivered via the Internet.

January 19, 2007 by Dan Farber

Podcast: Google Apps Premier, Vista security, salesforce.com mystery customer and more...

This week on the Dan & David Show, we discuss the well documented introduction of Google Apps Premier Edition, the $50 per user per year set of apps that includes phone support, additional storage, and a new set of administration and business integration capabilities. We also dive into Vista and IE7’s security features, and David discusses whether they will make the Web be harder to use.

February 22, 2007 by Dan Farber

Salesforce.com snags Koral’s Web 2.0 content management service

Salesforce.com has taken another drink from its AppExchange marketplace pool, acquiring nine-person startup Koral and its on demand content management service.

April 9, 2007 by Dan Farber

Salesforce.com delivers preview of Apex Code

Marc Benioff is on stage talking about the latest milestones for saleforce.com.

January 16, 2007 by Dan Farber

A cautionary utility computing tale

Charlie Wood is like a pioneer trekking across the frontier in a covered wagon, but the dangers aren't an untamed land, broken wheels or hostiles. Charlie, who runs the startup Spanning Partners, which helps companies RSS-enable applications, is on the frontier of using the software-as-a-service, utility computing model to run his business and is coming face-to-face with the unreliability of the on demand services he depends upon.

January 5, 2007 by Dan Farber

Fluidity of IT's growth

The disparity in growth rates of this year's top 10 fastest-growing companies reflect the industry's competitiveness.

November 28, 2006 by Eileen Yu

RightNow CEO bemoans Salesforce.com's toolkit approach to CRM

Last week, Siebel VP and GM for OnDemand and SMB (small/medium business) Bruce Cleveland appeared to emerge from hiding with a stake-in-the-ground sort of letter to "friends and colleagues" that came across as a declaration that Siebel's ASP-style (application service provider) competitor to Salesforce.com had officially re-opened for business.

May 31, 2005 by David Berlind