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- Chatting (Not Chattering) About Salesforce - Part I
- (NOTE BEFORE I START: This is one really long post. So rather than post it in all its glory in a single file or post it here over two days, I'm trying something new. I'm posting the first half here. And the second half on PGreenblog.  Let's see how that...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer Service, Twitter Inc., Sales Force, Customer, CRM, Integration, Force.com, Service Cloud 2, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-11-23
- Conference energy levels
- Coming to Dreamforce has been a revelation. The news was dominated by Chatter but that only tells a fraction of the real story. As I sat in the media room chatting sic to an old buddy it occurred to me this was a conference that annoyed for all...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Event, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Sales Force Management, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-11-20
- News to know: Google Chrome OS; Dell; AOL; Microsoft
- Google's Chrome OS from security to Web apps, Dreamforce wrap, AOL, Dell, and government IT lead today's headlines. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., America Online Inc., Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Google Chrome, Government, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-11-20
- Guerilla Marketing @ Dreamforce
- Leave the trade show booth behind and get creative. The guerilla marketing at technology shows can be entertaining, memorable and maybe even profitable. Done right, it makes a bigger impact than any brochure, newsletter or keychain giveaway. Look at what SugarCRM did at the Salesforce show! by Brian Sommer
- Tags: Corporate Communications, Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Marketing, Sales, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-11-19
- Dreamforce post#2: Chatter, Events, REA and the Future of Management
- Don't think of Salesforce's Chatter as bunch of social networking techologies for business people to use. If you do, you've missed the real potential for businesses to operate in real-time. by Brian Sommer
- Tags: Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-11-19
- Chatter: Amplified
- Last evening, fellow ZDNet'ers Mike Krigsman, Dion Hinchcliffe, Tom Foremski, Brian Sommer along with fellow Enterprise Advocate Vinnie Mirchandani and I sat down with Parker Harris, co-founder Salesforce.com to get a deep dive into the rationale behind Chatter, what it's really about and where it's going. ...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-11-19
- News to know: Dreamforce, Chatter; AT&T-Verizon; Sony e-reader; ChromeOS; Office 2010
- The opening of Dreamforce, the announcement of Salesforce Chatter and a judge's ruling on AT&T and Verizon's map spat are the top headlines by Sam Diaz
- Tags: E-reader, Sony Corp., Microsoft Office, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-11-19
- Dreamforce: Benioff introduces Chatter
- At Dreamforce Global Gathering 2009 in San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and technology head Parker Harris show attendees Chatter, a new collaboration and social media tool built for the enterprise. Benioff says the new tool will leverage social-networking models and bring them into a secure and private cloud where...
- Tags: Social Media, Marc Benioff, Productivity, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- Salesforce Chatter: Social operating systems emerge on the IT stage
- The next big shift: Intranets, portals, and software suites that are the integrating force of the social fabric for our organizations. This morning's announcement here at Dreamforce today from Salesforce of Chatter, an enterprise-class realization of Facebook and Twitter, is further evidence of the industry's push for social Web capabilities...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Information Technology, Operating System, Environment, Social Computing, Chatter, Status Update, Groups, Sales Force Management, Social Networking, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- A Tale of Two Software Worlds: Old ERP vs. SaaS
- Dreamforce's attendance really puts a strong data point on how attractive SaaS is becoming. Other vendors this week have provided additional data points that point to a troubling time ahead for laggard ERP vendors. by Brian Sommer
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, ERP, Dreamforce, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- Dreamforce: Quick first impressions
- Sitting here in the audience at the annual Dreamforce conference of Salesforce.com, a couple of quick impressions come to mind. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Impression, Sales Force Management, Sales, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- Salesforce kicks off Dreamforce, announces Chatter
- Salesforce announces Chatter, a new product that brings together the best of collaboration and social networking, to improve efficiency in the workplace. by Sam Diaz
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- Salesforce Chatter: Facebook for the Enterprise
- Salesforce is announcing today a Salesforce Chatter, an enteprise collaboration application akin to Facebook. The move puts SalesForce in competition with offerings from other providers, including IBM Lotus. Here's what's being delivered. Features: Profiles: Just like profiles on popular consumer-oriented social networking sites, Salesforce Chatter profiles include...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Facebook, Platform, App, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- Dreamforce 2009 - live
- Dreamforce 2009 by Dennis Howlett
- Tags: Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- News to know: Windows 7, Net Neutrality, Nokia-Apple; Kindle
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Windows 7 Coverage Andrew Nusca: Liveblog: Microsoft CEO Ballmer kicks off Windows 7 availability Adrian Kingsley-Hughes:...
- Tags: Nokia Corp., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Net Neutrality, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
- Boomi issues Dream Widget challenge ahead of Dreamforce show
- A company called Boomi is so confident of its application integration technology that it has issued a challenge ahead of next month's Dreamforce conference in San Francisco: tell Boomi which application you'd most like to see integrated into salesforce and Boomi will create the "Dream Widget" to give away at...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force, Integration, Boomi, Application Integration, Sales Force Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Salesforce opens Sites; offers free version to help push cloud adoption
- Remember when the corporate Web site consisted of mostly static Web pages: a home page, a handful of pages about the company’s products or services and a place to learn more about the management team, contact sales or even find hours and directions? Times definitely have changed....
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Web, Sales Force, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-14
- Sage and the Economy â€" Two things that should turn around
- Sage is a large, albeit understated, software provider that sells a multitude of applications that a significant number of people and firms use. Through acquisitions, the company has amassed a large portfolio of products that include brands such as AccPac, ACT, Timberline, MAS, Abra and many more. ...
- Tags: Brand, Channel Partner, North America, Sage, Sue, Public Relations, Sales Strategy, Branding, Sales Force Management, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Sales, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-05-17
- Salesforce President and 2 Executives Gone
- Reuters is reporting a big shake up at Salesforce tonight pst, with President and chief strategy officer Steve Cakebread resigning along with two other senior executives. Cakebread is still listed as chief financial officer on the Salesforce website executive leadership page. Gary Hanna,...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Leadership, Sales Force Management, Cloud Computing, Sales, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-02-05
- News to know: Yahoo's Bartz, Genachowski, Sony's loss, Chrome for Mac
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Yahoo confirms Bartz in charge; Can she save Yahoo? Yahoo to name Bartz CEO; Now the fun begins Sam Diaz: Ya-hoooo: There's a...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Sony Corp., Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, Yahoo! Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Apple Inc., Sam Diaz, Federal Government, Microsoft Windows, RSS, Desktops, Telecom & Utilities, Operating Systems, Government, Software, Internet, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-01-14
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