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Salesforce Launches New Collaboration Tool
Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) is launching a collaboration service called Salesforce Communities, which will extend its Chatter platform to include clients and suppliers of a company. The online service will allow companies to create private networks...
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Salesforce Leads The Pack In Sales Force Automation With Social Media Technology
Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) announced recently that it has been positioned by Gartner in the leaders quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for sales force automation in 2012. Salesforce has been pushing its social media strategy by acquiring companies suc...
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Salesforce Insights Helps Companies Analyze Social Networking Activity
Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) has unveiled its latest social offering dubbed Insights. As an update to the already successful Radian6 social monitoring software, Insights is designed not only to register the reader’s sentiment but also intent a...
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Salesforce’s Radian6 Taps Twitter To Leverage Its Firehose Of Data
Radian6, the social media monitoring service owned by Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) has signed a strategic alliance with Twitter that gives Radian6 customers access to Twitter’s daily public tweets data consisting of more than 400 million tweet...
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Salesforce Buys Buddy Media To Ride Social Media Wave
Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) has agreed to buy Buddy Media, a leading social media marketing platform for $689 million in cash and equity. Buddy Media enables its clients to listen, engage, gain insight, publish, advertise and measure social marketi...
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SAP Taps African Growth With Management Software For Nigerian SMEs
SAP (NYSE:SAP) and NetServeAfrica Limited have entered into a partnership to provide management software solutions tailored to fuel the African growth story. Africa is a strong growth market and this may be a critical first mover advantage for SA...
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Salesforce Aims To Be The Facebook Of Enterprises
Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) is pushing for more social integration in its suite of products as is evident from the some of its recent acquisitions like Radian6, a social media marketing campaign management tool, and Rypple, a social software for em...
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Salesforce Launches Site.com to Simplify Online Content Management for Enterprise
Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) announced a couple of new products at the Cloudforce 2012 event. It finally launched Salesforce Rypple, a new human capital management (HCM) offering which will compete with similar products by Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), SAP...
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Salesforce’s Rypple Gets the Enterprise More Social
Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) recently announced the launch of Salesforce Rypple, a new social performance management platform which it acquired through its acquisition of Rypple, a cloud-based social performance management software maker, in Decembe...
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Salesforce.com Ventures into ERP with Infor
While Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) has been dominating the CRM market when it comes to cloud based software, it hasn’t made any major attempts to enter the ERP market. ERP applications facilitate the flow of information between all the major b...
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Salesforce.com Fails to Clamp Down on Expenses, Overshoots $120 Fair Value
Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) reported its earnings for Q4 FY12, with its revenue reaching a record high of $632 million, up 38% year-over-year. Its full year revenue jumped to $2.27 billion. However, it reported a net loss yet again, due to its risi...
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Salesforce Earnings Preview: What We’re Watching February 23
Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) is expected to announce its earnings for Q4 FY12 on February 23. In the last quarter, it posted impressive revenue growth as usual, but it failed to keep a lid on its operating expenses, which resulted in a loss of a few...
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Salesforce.com to Widen Cloud Computing Reach with Deloitte Partnership
Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) 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). It recently announced an alliance with Deloitt...
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Salesforce.com Rolls Out Rypple Mobile App for Social Performance Management
Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) acquired Rypple, a cloud-based social performance management software maker, back in December 2011. Rypple’s software enables employees to improve their performance using a social and collaborative approach. It recently ...
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Salesforce Launches Desk.com, Social Customer Service Platform for SMBs
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 ...
