Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) has launched Desk.com, a mobile and social customer service platform targeted at small businesses. Salesforce.com acquired Assistly, a social customer service startup back in 2011. Desk.com is built on Assistly’s technology, but is a more polished product with a new user interface, additional APIs, a new reporting service and a HTML 5 based mobile client. Read More »
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More Doubts on Salesforce Emerge
Graph ItNEW!Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 by Trefis Team
A lot of these gel with what we have been saying for a while. It all boils down to the fact Salesforce.com (NASDAQ:CRM) is doing everything it can to give the appearance things are all rosy when in fact cracks are emerging…..big ones. No one is saying anything melodramatic like “they are going under”, clearly they are not. What is being said is they are using accounting games to boost current results and subtly changed bonus metrics for execs so they could keep the cash flowing to themselves all the while exercising options 2-3 years early and dumping virtually every share.
Organic growth is slowing dramatically and the small deals they are doing simply can’t continue to make up the difference. Soon, (I am betting current Q or next) this will show in results and the stock will crater. Again, I am not saying they are worth nothing, I am saying they are worth a fraction of the $100 they hover at now.
Salesforce.com Update: Increasing Competition Weighs on Stock
Graph ItNEW!Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 by Trefis Team
Salesforce.com’s (NASDAQ:CRM) stock has been swinging wildly the last two weeks and has shed around 5% of its value, primarily because of increased competition in on-demand enterprise space with the entry of giants like Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), SAP (NYSE:SAP) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT). There have been some significant developments related to Salesforce.com, which could impact its stock price going forward. Read More »
Weekly Tech Review: SAP, Salesforce.com, Oracle & Shutterfly
Graph ItNEW!Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012 by Trefis Team
This past week has been one of the less volatile ones in the last two months. However, there were some developments in some prominent technology companies including SAP (NYSE:SAP), Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM), Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) and Shutterfly (NASDAQ:SFLY). Here are some updates on these companies which could impact their stocks going forward.
Zoho’s Upgraded CRM Offering Poses Threat to Salesforce.com
Graph ItNEW!Thursday, December 29th, 2011 by Trefis Team
Zoho has launched a significant upgrade to its on-demand CRM suite, with a revamped user interface and LinkedIn integration. It also announced that it now had more than 25,000 customers for its CRM application. While its user base is still much smaller than Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM), it could pose a threat to Salesforce.com going forward. Salesforce.com is currently the leader in cloud-based CRM software, and has a 14.8% share in the overall CRM software market where it competes with the likes of Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), SAP (NYSE:SAP) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT). Read More »
Dell Adds Salesforce Service Cloud to its CRM Offering
Graph ItNEW!Monday, December 26th, 2011 by Trefis Team
Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) announced that it is adding Salesforce Service Cloud, a leading customer service application by Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) to its CRM (customer relationship management) suite for small and medium businesses. Dell will add Service Cloud to Dell Cloud Integrated CRM Business Applications, which already includes Salesforce Sales Cloud. It will be available as a subscription based offering. Salesforce.com is currently the leader in the cloud-based CRM software market, which is under siege by traditional enterprise software giants like Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), SAP (NYSE:SAP), and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT).
Salesforce.com Enters Human Capital Management Market with Rypple Deal
Graph ItNEW!Tuesday, December 20th, 2011 by Trefis Team
Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) has announced the acquisition of Rypple, a cloud-based social performance management software maker. Rypple’s software enables employees to improve their performance using a social and collaborative approach. The company will relaunch Rypple as SuccessForce to mark its entry into the human capital management (HCM) software market, where it’ll be pitted against SAP that recently acquired SuccessFactors. Salesforce.com is one of the leaders in the cloud-based enterprise software market, where it competes with the likes of Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), SAP (NYSE:SAP) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT). Read More »
Salesforce.com’s Enterprise App Store Goes Mobile
Graph ItNEW!Friday, December 9th, 2011 by Trefis Team
Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) is one of the leading players in the cloud-based enterprise software space, which has become increasingly competitive in the last couple of months with Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), SAP (NYSE:SAP) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) now focusing on on-demand, cloud-based software to increase their share in the enterprise software market. It has announced that it is adding support for enterprise mobile apps to AppExchange, its popular marketplace for cloud apps. AppExchange will now also host mobile apps for the iOS and Android platforms. It will showcase both HTML 5 mobile apps, as well as native apps for iOS and Android.
Salesforce.com : All Articles
- Week of 2012-01-29
- Week of 2012-01-22
- Week of 2012-01-08
- 01/11/12 More Doubts on Salesforce Emerge
- 01/10/12 Salesforce.com Update: Increasing Competition Weighs on Stock
- Week of 2012-01-01
- Week of 2011-12-25
- 12/29/11 Zoho’s Upgraded CRM Offering Poses Threat to Salesforce.com
- 12/26/11 Dell Adds Salesforce Service Cloud to its CRM Offering
- Week of 2011-12-18
- Week of 2011-12-11
- Week of 2011-12-04
- 12/09/11 Salesforce.com’s Enterprise App Store Goes Mobile
- 12/08/11 Salesforce.com Update: New Products Drive Stock Higher on Improved Outlook
- 12/05/11 Salesforce.com Launches Radian6 Social Marketing Cloud
- Week of 2011-11-27
- 12/02/11 Weekly Tech Notes: Microsoft, Adobe & Salesforce.com
- 12/01/11 Salesforce.com Launches Heroku Postgres, Another Cloud Based Database Service
- Week of 2011-11-20
- Week of 2011-11-13
- 11/18/11 Weekly Tech Review: Salesforce.com & Microsoft
- 11/18/11 Salesforce.com Model Metrics Deal Helps Enterprises Become Social and Mobile
- 11/18/11 Salesforce.com’s Rising Expenses Keep $120 Lid on Stock
- 11/17/11 Salesforce.com Q3 Earnings Preview: What We’re Watching Thursday
- 11/14/11 Salesforce Debuts Do.com, Social Productivity App for Small Businesses
- Week of 2011-10-23
- Week of 2011-09-18
- Week of 2011-09-04
- 09/09/11 Salesforce.com Enters the ERP Market with Infor
- 09/07/11 Salesforce Launches Cloud Based Database Offering
- Week of 2011-08-28
- 09/02/11 Salesforce.com’s Chatter Aspires to be the Facebook of Enterprise
- 08/29/11 Salesforce.com Acquires Cloud Encryption Firm to Secure its Cloud Offerings
- Week of 2011-08-21
- Week of 2011-08-14
- Week of 2011-07-10
- Week of 2011-07-03
- 07/07/11 SAP Upside & Downside Scenarios to $64 Stock Value
- 07/06/11 Salesforce’s Stock Needs to Hit Reverse Though Chatter Integration with CA Lifts Shares
- Week of 2011-05-29
- Week of 2011-05-22
- 05/26/11 3 Factors Behind Salesforce.com’s Higher Expenses
- 05/24/11 Salesforce.com Raises Guidance on Growth in Customer Base
- Week of 2011-05-15
- Week of 2011-04-17
- 04/22/11 Amazon’s Server Crash Raises Reliability Questions Surrounding the Cloud
- 04/20/11 Positive Outlook for Salesforce’s CRM Share
- Week of 2011-04-03
- Week of 2011-03-20
- 03/23/11 Should We Be Worried About Salesforce’s Rising Operating Expenses?
- 03/22/11 Salesforce.com’s Development Platform Could Become a Major Force
- Week of 2011-03-13
- Week of 2011-03-06
- Week of 2011-02-20
- 02/24/11 Oracle’s Abundant Cash Balance Provides Room for Acquisitions
- 02/23/11 Salesforce.com Showing Strong Subscriber Growth Momentum
- Week of 2011-02-06
- 02/10/11 Can Salesforce.com Make its Presence Felt in the Cloud Computing Market?
- 02/09/11 SAP Looks to Tap New Markets for Growth
- Week of 2011-01-30
- 02/02/11 On-Demand Growth Drives Salesforce’s CRM Market Share
- 01/31/11 Number of Salesforce.com Chatter Users on the Rise
- Week of 2011-01-23
- 01/26/11 Microsoft Dynamics CRM a Shot Across the Bow at Salesforce
- 01/25/11 After Strong Run, Do Cloud Stocks Need a Breather?
- Week of 2011-01-16
- Week of 2011-01-09
- 01/14/11 Chatter Network Can Help Salesforce.com Up-Sell Other Cloud-Based Products
- 01/10/11 Potential Rise in Web Service Margins Provides Little Upside to Amazon
- Week of 2011-01-02
- 01/04/11 IBM’s Middleware Dominance Will Help it Serve the Cloud
- 01/03/11 Salesforce.com: Sensitivity to CRM Market Share Forecasts
- Week of 2010-12-19
- Week of 2010-12-12
- 12/15/10 Salesforce CRM Market Share Could Rise Beyond our Estimates
- 12/14/10 Oracle Study Points to Concerns on Customer Satisfaction
- 12/14/10 SAP-Oracle Lawsuit Could Weigh on SAP Market Share, Stock Price
- 12/13/10 Salesforce.com: How a $150 Market Price Could be Justified
- Week of 2010-11-28
- Week of 2010-11-21
- 11/23/10 Cisco is Still a $24 Stock
- Week of 2010-08-01