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Here’s The Reason Behind Salesforce.com’s Acquisition of SteelBrick
Leading Customer Relationship Management (CRM) cloud software vendor Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) recently announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire quote-to-cash vendor Steelbrick for $360 million, including $60 million in cash. Th...
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The One Thing Missing in Salesforce’s Growth Plans
Cloud computing behemoth Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) has been on a seemingly unstoppable growth streak quarter after quarter. We previously explored the reason behind Salesforce’s unabated growth, wherein we briefly touched upon the one chink in th...
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Here’s The Reason Behind Salesforce’s Unabated Growth
Leading customer relationship management (CRM) software vendor Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) continued its relentless streak of strong revenue growth in the third quarter of fiscal 2016. (Fiscal years end with January.) We have reflected on the recen...
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Salesforce’s Breakneck Pace of Growth Likely Continued in the Third Quarter
Cloud computing leader Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) is scheduled to report its third quarter results on November 18th. (Fiscal years end with January.) Salesforce has achieved the enviable feat of sustaining its revenue growth at over 20% even at i...
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Is Salesforce’s Analytics Cloud Really Making Waves?
Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) appears to be fighting an uphill battle in getting customers to buy its Wave Analytics Cloud. According to the ‘State of Salesforce’ report by Bluewolf, 68% of Salesforce’s 1500 customers who were surveyed are planning t...
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The One Theme Underpinning Salesforce’s Dreamforce 2015 and Its Entire Future
Last week saw the culmination of this year’s iteration of Salesforce.com ’s (NYSE:CRM) annual extravaganza, Dreamforce. Over the course of the event, the company introduced two major products ( Internet of Things (IoT) cloud and SalesforceIQ ), r...
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Salesforce Expands Into Industry Verticals With Financial Services Cloud
Having scaled the peaks of the global customer relationship management (CRM) software market, cloud computing vendor Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) has now expanded into cloud solutions for industry verticals. Industry verticals refer to cloud solutio...
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Salesforce Eyeing Expansion Into Industry Verticals as Q2 Revenues Beat Expectations
Cloud computing behemoth Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) continued to defy its burgeoning scale with its fiscal 2016 second quarter results, which it reported on August 20th. The company is showing no signs of slowing down, as underscored by the 33% y...
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Salesforce’s Revenue and Margin Expansion Likely to Continue in Q2
Salesforce (NYSE:CRM) is likely to report strong revenue growth and margin expansion in its fiscal 2016 second quarter results, which it is scheduled to report on August 20th. The company has been able to achieve year-on-year revenue growth of o...
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Here’s The Reason Behind Salesforce’s Declining Gross Margin
Global cloud computing behemoth Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) has been plagued by declining gross margins in the last few years. The gross margin of its cloud software business has contracted every year since 2011, falling from 87% in 2011 to 84% in ...
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There’s More to Salesforce’s Declining Margins Than Meets the Eye
Leading Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software vendor Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) has relentlessly grown at a breakneck pace over the last few years. Since calendar 2011, its revenues have expanded at over a 30% clip annually. However, the...
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These Scenarios Could Significantly Raise Salesforce’s Valuation
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) is a leading pure-play cloud computing vendor that specializes in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. It derives almost 80% of its revenues from CRM software, while other cloud computing software and consul...
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Weekly Software Review: Salesforce, Symantec, Oracle
It was a quiet week for the software industry on the markets following the Memorial Day Weekend. During the week ended May 28th, shares of software giants Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) and Oracle Corp. (NYSE: ORCL) remained nearly flat, while shares...
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Here’s Why a Takeover of Salesforce May Not Materialize
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) is one of the largest software companies in the world and is the undisputed leader in the global cloud computing market. In late April, reports surfaced that Salesforce was entertaining takeover enquiries from one or mo...
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Salesforce Posts Robust Q1 Results, Raises Fiscal 2016 Guidance
Software behemoth Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) reported strong fiscal 2016 first quarter results on May 20th. The company continued to defy the law of large numbers as revenues expanded by 23% year on year to reach $1.51 billion in the first quarte...
