It looks like Salesforce is back with their pranks. Back in the day Salesforce had been known to picket Siebel events and pull all sorts of publicity stunts.
After catching a whiff of Ballmer’s hint, it looks like they’ve hired people to stand outside PDC with donuts trying to promote their Platform.
Frankly I think it’s [...]

Is CRM becoming a commodity? It seems like anybody with a application that contains a Leads, Accounts, Contacts and Opportunities tab can be a good CRM. Which begs the question, are people paying a premium for Salesforce.com?
NetSuite is not the first company to aggressively target Salesforce.com customers. But they just announced their RenewForce program [...]

I didn’t see this out there already so I thought I’d share it. It’s very short notice, but Salesforce.com is hosting a free webinar on building a successful SaaS company. The presenters are Byron Deeter and Mark Trang. Byron is a Partner at VC firm Bessemer Venture and Mark is Director of [...]

Just catching up on my blogs and I found this really interesting article on TechCrunchIT thanks to Michael at Salesforcetimes.
Basically this is a guest article written by the maverick himself; Marc Benioff. Long story short:
Web 1.0 was about getting businesses and people online to ‘transact’ or lookup information. Web 2.0 was about getting [...]

There were 2 very interesting SaaS discussions organized during the Always On Summit at Stanford. One session was titled ‘Will the Next Salesforce.com Please Stand Up?’ and the other was titled ‘Will SaaS Disappear in the Cloud?’
Both discussions were focused on the future of SaaS and where the industry is heading. The discussions surrounded [...]

An update on the Google/Salesforce announcement. Just released today is an Apex toolkit for Force.com developers. This toolkit will allow developers to build applications which integrate CRM and Google Apps Data. The type of Google/Salesforce mashups we’ve been seeing so far have all been s-controls built with Javascript. But this announcement is different [...]

Looks like the relationship is about to get more serious. According to this interview with Marc Benioff, Google and Salesforce are going to make a big announcement today at Tour De Force in Santa Clara.
It looks like they will announce a growing partnership in terms of their application platform. As you know Google [...]