With Salesforce.com dominating the CRM news lately, Microsoft decided that it needs to up its game. Microsoft representatives stated that Microsoft wants to make its presence known and voice heard so the computer and customer relationship management (CRM) software provider aims to strengthen its CRM pitch to the press. Salesforce.com and its CEO, Marc Benioff, […]
Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing company, received two awards at the American Business Awards last week. Salesforce received the prestigious Stevie Awards for the Most Innovative Company of the Year and the Corporate Social Responsibility Program of the Year at the eighth annual awards ceremony. Both awards were granted in the 2500 + employees categories. […]
Last week, Salesforce.com countersued Microsoft for patent-infringement. Microsoft sued Salesforce first, in May, over intellectual property infringement. These customer relationship management (CRM) competitors are battling it out over patent violations. Microsoft and Salesforce are both seeking an injuction and monetary compensation for the violations. Microsoft claims that Salesforce’s CRM software violates nine Microsoft patents. Microsoft […]
Today, Salesforce.com’s CEO and chairman, Marc Benioff, donated $100 million to the University of California in San Francisco Children’s Hospital. This is a private donation from Benioff and his family, and is both the largest donation that they have ever given and the largest donation that UCSF Hospital has ever received. The new children’s hospital […]
Reportedly, Marc Benioff loves Apple. He loves iPads. And he loves Japan. In a recent guest column by the Salesforce executive, Benioff describes his 3-week stay in Japan that coincided with the release of the iPad. He watched as the Japanese people completely ate up the iPads in stock and revered the new device. To him, […]
Yesterday, Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing company, announced that Cloudforce 2010 will be held on June 22, 2010. The largest cloud computing event of the year will happen in the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, CA. Cloudforce 2010 is for developers, customers, or people in the industry. The event is to welcome and […]
Salesforce may have given some people a bit of a shock when Marc Benioff made the launch of Salesforce Chatter the subject of his keynote speech on Tuesday. Since that introduction, many have been calling it the “Facebook for enterprise.” Today, however, Benioff refuted that epithet at TechCrunch’s RealTime CrunchUp, and said that he prefers […]
Dreamforce was getting an impressive amount of attention even before the announcement of Salesforce Chatter, and a couple software companies launched campaigns to steal some of this interest. Microsoft set up a “truth squad,” for the San Francisco event, and SugarCRM took it a step further, distributing 1,000 pamphlets titled “Behind the Smoke Screen” at […]