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Salesforce.com Launches Heroku Postgres, Another Cloud Based Database Service
Salesforce.com (NASDAQ:CRM) is one of the most prominent players in cloud based, on-demand enterprise software market, which recently saw the entry of Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), SAP (NYSE:SAP) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT). Salesforce.com acquired Her...
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Weekly Tech Review: Salesforce.com & Microsoft
It was another exciting week for the technology sector. There were some significant developments in major tech companies like Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT). In this weekly roundup, we review some of these developments.
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Salesforce.com Model Metrics Deal Helps Enterprises Become Social and Mobile
Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) is one of the most important players in the on-demand, cloud based enterprise software market, in which it competes with Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), SAP (NYSE:SAP) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT). It announced that it has acqui...
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Salesforce.com’s Rising Expenses Keep $120 Lid on Stock
Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) announced its earnings for Q3 2011, posting impressive year-on-year revenue growth of around 36%. It continues to add new customers at a rapid clip, gaining marketshare in the on-demand CRM market, where it competes prim...
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Salesforce.com Q3 Earnings Preview: What We’re Watching Thursday
Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) is set to announce its fiscal year Q3 earnings on Thursday. It reported a significant increase in revenues last quarter, but posted a small net loss, due to ever increasing operating expenses. It continues to grow in the...
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Salesforce Debuts Do.com, Social Productivity App for Small Businesses
Salesforce.com (NASDAQ:CRM) has unveiled a new web based productivity app with social features built in – Do.com. Do.com essentially combines task management with social collaboration for teams, and is targeted primarily at small businesses...
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Salesforce’s Stock Has the Jitters With Big Tech Taking on the Cloud
The last couple of weeks have been quite jittery for Salesforce.com (NASDAQ:CRM) stock in light of business and competitive concerns, offset by strong growth in its core business. We currently have a $124 Trefis price estimate for Salesforce.com,...
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Salesforce.com Acquires Assistly to Bolster CRM Offering
Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) is the market leader in cloud based CRM (customer relationship management) where it competes with giants like SAP (NYSE:SAP), Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and IBM (NYSE:IBM). We expect its 15% share i...
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Salesforce.com Enters the ERP Market with Infor
Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) is the biggest player in the cloud based, on-demand customer relationship management (CRM) market, but it hasn’t released any major enterprise resource planning (ERP) offering yet. ERP applications facilitate the f...
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Salesforce Launches Cloud Based Database Offering
Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) announced the launch of Data.com, a cloud based database of company and customer contact information for use in CRM systems, at the Dreamforce 2011 conference. In 2010 Salesforce acquired Jigsaw, a crowd sourced online b...
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Salesforce.com’s Chatter Aspires to be the Facebook of Enterprise
Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) kicked off the Dreamforce 2011 conference on Wednesday and made several announcements like the launch of Data.com and that Chatter will have more social features like instant messaging for its Chatter groups. Salesforce....
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Salesforce.com Acquires Cloud Encryption Firm to Secure its Cloud Offerings
Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) is the leading provider of on-demand cloud based CRM (customer relationship management) software. Besides CRM, it also has several other offerings like Force.com, Database.com, Chatter and AppExchange. It competes primar...
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Salesforce.com Posts Strong Growth but Fails to Rein in Expenses
Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) posted strong revenue growth in its recent earnings report and is taking additional share in the CRM market; however this growth is coming at the expense of gross margins. Despite the companies revenues notching a near 4...
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Salesforce Q2 Earnings Preview: What We’re Watching
Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) will report its fiscal year Q2 earnings on August 18th and we take a look at some of the key items driving results this quarter. Salesforce.com has been the leader in the on-demand CRM (customer relationship software) ma...
