Salesforce.com Feb. 1 acquired popular project management software maker Manymoon, which rose to power via the Google Apps Marketplace. The move raises some interesting questions. – Salesforce.com Feb. 1 acquired project management
software maker Manymoon, which shot to fame courtesy of its high profile on the
Google Apps Marketplace in 2010.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
Google’s Apps Marketplace launched in March 2009 as an online store to help
smaller Web-based s…
Microsoft is moving to stop one of its former executives from joining cloud rival Salesforce.com, amidst increasing animosity between the two companies. – Microsoft and Salesforce.com find themselves locked in
conflict again, after the software giant filed a lawsuit to stop a former
executive from joining its cloud-services rival.
Salesforce.com had hired Matthew Miszewski whose LinkedIn
page states his former position as general
manager of world…
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, due for global rollout Feb. 28, will compete against CRM offerings from Salesforce.com and Oracle. – Microsoft’s cloud strategy reached another stage Jan. 17 with the
announcement of a worldwide launch date for Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Online, the cloud version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM
2011. Both on-premises and cloud-based versions of the platform will be
available in 40 markets and 41 language…
Salesforce.com acquired Web conferencing platform Dimdim to obtain real-time communication capabilities as it continues to build out its Chatter collaboration platform in an apparent effort to match the Facebook social network. – Salesforce.com bought Indian
Web conferencing company Dimdim to add critical real-time communication
capabilities to its collaboration platform, the company said on Jan. 6.
Salesforce.com
paid $31 million in cash for the Dimdim acquisition, which closed today.
Dimdim
offers an quot;open…
The completion of its $212 million acquisition of the Heroku Ruby-based cloud platform gives Salesforce.com access to Ruby developers building next-generation web apps. – Salesforce.com has announced the completion of its acquisition of
Heroku, the privately held cloud platform for writing Ruby-based
applications.
Salesforce.com initially announced a definitive agreement to acquire
Heroku on Dec. 8 and completed the $212 million acquisition within a
month. The …
Microsoft engaged in a number of legal battles throughout 2010, most of them seen by analysts as a way to leverage its growing interest in smartphones and the cloud. – Microsoft found itself at the center of a number of intellectual-property battles throughout 2010, as lawsuit fever seemed to grip the tech industry as a whole. Despite the intercompany partnerships seemingly signed on a weekly basis, the rapid pace of innovation in markets such as smartphones, and …
Salesforce.com’s acquisition of cloud-application Heroku is a play for Ruby developers and their Ruby-based applications, according to analysts. – Salesforce.com has signed a definitive agreement to acquire
cloud-application company Heroku for approximately $212 million. Heroku offers
a cloud application platform for Ruby-based applications.
“The next era of cloud computing is social, mobile and
real-time. I call it Cloud 2,” Marc Benioff…
Salesforce.com unveiled Database.com, a standalone cloud database for IT pros creating applications, increasing its competition with Oracle and Microsoft. – Salesforce.com is using its annual Dreamforce conference to
unveil Database.com, its new standalone cloud database for IT pros creating
applications. The company claims that developers for nearly any device and
platform will be able to leverage Database.coms features, even for
applications using…
Microsoft is offering a rebate for any customer who switches from Salesforce.com to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, as the business cloud battle continues to escalate. – Microsoft took a hard swipe at Salesforce.com Dec. 6, in another sign that
the traditionally desktop-bound company is upping its aggressiveness in the
cloud arena.
In quot;An Open Letter to Salesforce.com Customers, quot; Microsoft dangles
a $200-per-user rebate for any organization that switch…
UPDATED: An analyst contends that HP is aiming to replace Oracle Siebel for its new 30K- to 40K-seat CRM deployment in favor of Salesforce.com. – Both Oracle and Hewlett-Packard declined to comment to eWEEK Nov. 23 on a contention from a Bay Area IT analyst that Hewlett-Packard is preparing to sign a huge new relationship management deal with Salesforce.com to handle 35,000 to 40,000 seats.
HP would be acing out Oracle’s Siebel division, w…
Salesforce.com Winter ‘11 release added important Chatter features and adoption tools to the top of the page thereby significantly enhancing social media in a business setting. The Winter ‘11 release of Chatter now makes it possible for the social media tool to filter the Chatter stream according to groups, opportunities, cases while also adding Facebook and Twitter like recommendations for people and groups to follow in the social media platform. To help users who are not familiar with social media tool use a "What to do Next" box has now appeared prominently at the top right of the Chatter screen. A short video and several simple to follow tool tips should get most new users up and running in under 15 minutes. Chatter fulfills my requirements for a business class communication tool that can be securely and reliably used to promote social interaction without losing control of the business opportunities that are the subject of conversation. Winter ‘11 was released to Salesforce.com customers on October 22. The feature is available at no extra subscription charge for all editions. Organizations can add Chatter-only users for $15 per month per user. – …
Salesforce.com Chatter eases user adoption while adding significant search and recommendations to the business-class social media platform. – Salesforce.com’s
Winter ‘11 release jumped Chatter features and adoption tools to the
top of the page, thereby significantly enhancing social media in a
business setting.
Significant
enhancements to Chatter in the Winter ‘11 release include the ability
to filter the Chatter stream according…
Salesforce.com has unveiled Chatter 2, the next version of its Facebook-like Chatter collaboration platform, with additional features such as filters and hashtags. – Salesforce.com has unveiled Chatter 2, the next version of
its Chatter collaboration platform, which allows employees to post comments and
share files in a Facebook-style environment. The rise of Chatter and similar
applications has mirrored businesses increased interest in social networking
as …
Microsoft’s week, which involved settling its patent-infringement lawsuit with Salesforce.com and adding new features to Bing Maps, demonstrated yet again the companys continued focus on the cloud. – Microsoft enjoyed some positive news this week, at least on the legal front:
the company announced Aug. 4 that it had settled its patent-infringement cases
with Salesforce.com, heading off what promised to be a protracted legal battle.
“Salesforce.com will receive broad coverage under Microsoft…
Microsoft and Salesforce.com may have settled their mutual patent-infringement lawsuits out of court, but rising competition in the enterprise cloud space means other vendors could soon be starting battles of their own. – Microsoft and Salesforce.com may have settled their very public disagreement
over intellectual property, but the feud could be an indicator of things to
come in the enterprise cloud space, where a number of vendors are engaged in
ever-fiercer competition for business clients.
quot;As you take …
Microsoft and Salesforce.com agree to settle their respective patent-infringement lawsuits against each other. Those lawsuits threatened to become a protracted legal affair and a symbolic battle over the future of the cloud. – Microsoft announced Aug. 4 that it has settled its patent-infringement cases
with Salesforce.com, marking the end of what promised to be a protracted legal
affair and a symbolic battle over the future of the cloud. Earlier this summer,
the
companies had filed intellectual-property lawsuits again…
Microsoft announced during its Worldwide Partner Conference that it will introduce Microsoft Dynamics Marketplace, a storefront of applications for Microsoft Dynamics CRM customers. The platform could challenge Salesforce.coms AppExchange2. – Microsoft is going beyond challenging Salesforce.com in
court: the IT giant announced during its Worldwide Partner Conference that it
will introduce a Microsoft Dynamics Marketplace, a repository of applications
for Microsoft Dynamics CRM customers, in September. The platform seems designed
to c…
Salesforce.com is using David Boies, who represented the Justice Department in its antitrust action against Microsoft, as counsel for its patent-infringement lawsuit against its rival. Salesforces lawsuit is seen by many as a response to Microsofts own intellectual property suit, filed in May, against the cloud-based software company. One analyst also sees the brewing legal battle as a fight for the future of the cloud, with Microsofts Azure on one side and Salesforce’s cloud-based productivity offerings on the other. Salesforce alleges that Microsoft violated five of its patents. – Salesforce.com has brought a key figure from Microsofts
past into its patent-infringement lawsuit against the software giant, by
retaining David Boies as counsel. The lawsuit is seen by many as a response to
Microsofts own intellectual-property suit filed in May against the cloud-based
software …
Salesforce.com is accusing Microsoft of infringing on five of its patents, in a lawsuit countering the suit Microsoft filed in May against the cloud-based software company. Salesforce.com is asking for a jury trial, as well as unspecified damages. Microsoft indicates that it plans to press forward with its own lawsuit, which accuses Salesforce.com of violating nine of its patents. Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff has referred to Microsoft as a patent troll. – Salesforce.com is suing Microsoft for allegedly infringing on five of its
patents, in what could be seen as the inevitable countermove to the Microsoft
lawsuit filed in May against the cloud-based software company. Salesforce.com
is asking for unspecified damages, as well as a jury trial.
The la…
Marc Benioff, CEO of super cloud service provider Salesforce.com, put forth the idea that a Cloud 2 era is about to dawn — never mind that Cloud 1 is still in the process of discovery by a fair number of old-school enterprise IT folks. – SAN FRANCISCO — GigaOm founder Om Malik’s third annual Structure conference here at the University of California, San Francisco’s new eastside campus June 23 and 24 brought out the heavy hitters in the cloud computing business, and they certainly delivered cogent insights for attendees to think abo…
