Category: Salesforce.com

Benioff: One to know

Salesforce.com publicity did a little personal (or maybe personnel) PR on Friday, announcing that chairman and CEO Marc Benioff was named number 11 on Business 2.0 magazine’s list of “50 People Who Matter Now.” Benioff just barely missed cracking a top ten that included Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the ubiquitous News Corporation […]

Ipedo XIP for salesforce.com AppExchange released

Ipedo XIP is an enterprise information integration software platform that seeks to integrate information from across the enterprise into Salesforce. Composite views of data can be done in Oracle, SAP and Siebel in addition to Salesforce. Ipedo XIP is also offered for test drives. Ipedo XIP is designed to allow aggregation and presentation of information […]

Salesforce.com for Jobscience

Salesforce.com has won another long-term commitment, with representatives announcing today that Jobscience, a leading developer of staffing solutions for the healthcare industry, has now been completely assimilated into the salesforce.com AppExchange platform to run its entire business from human resources and product management to marketing. Jobscience has used AppExchange to build even custom applications and […]

Partners to Partnerforce

In more salesforce.com-related news, the customer relationship management tool provider reminds of the imminent launch of Partnerforce, a service intended to assist companies in better interacting with business partners. The Partnerforce program is promised to allow employees share data with sales staff internal and external to their firm. The on-demand data service is touted as […]

Brainshark season

A tandem announcement today from Brainshark, Inc. and salesforce.com: Brainshark Express is now available for salesforce.com’s AppExchange. Salesforce.com customers can now deploy Brainshark Express within Salesforce implementation and with closed-loop reportage directly to Salesforce. Brainshark Express is integrated with the AppExchange on-demand platform. The shark can be checked out and test deployed from http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange. The […]

Think and Connect

Representatives of Think Mortgage today announced the engagement of Customer Connect Associates to implement Salesforce.com. Customer Connect will assist in developing and automate Think Mortgage business processes in delivering wholesale lending services to brokers across America. Founded in 2000, Customer Connect Associates is touted as improving customer relationship with the copyrighted LUCK process for creating […]

TARGUSinfo chooses Salesforce

On-demand business services provider Salesforce.com today announced that TARGUSinfo, a provider of on-demand data, is using the Salesforce AppExchange platform in integrating and optimizing cross-department operations. TARGUSinfo noted certain goals achieved, a single, central hub for prospect and customer communications across marketing, sales, finance and human resources. TARGUSinfo installed the AppExchange Platform to build and […]

Salesforce on the bottom of the globe

Salesforce.com representatives have announced the opening of an Auckland, New Zealand, office later this year. This latest move continues the firm’s inroads into kiwi land, having signed contracts with sixty-five clients on the islands. Notable among the clientele are Fairfax and Vodafone. Wellington-based IT services firm Synergy has been appointed as the first salesforce.com systems […]

HMS now Salesforce’s

Three new developments over at Salesforce.com have hit the news as of late. Firstly, naturally, was the big money deal. Salesforce.com representatives have announced that health care provider data manufacturer Health Market Science, Inc. has chosen the salesforce.com AppExchange platform to customize its Salesforce SFA application. HMS chief marketing officer Matt Wallach claims that past […]

Salesforce.com announces retirement of CFO Steve Cakebread

Salesforce.com, Inc. announced the retirement of executive vice president / chief financial officer Steve Cakebread. Cakebread will stay with the company through December 2005 and will reportedly work closely with CEO Marc Benioff and the board of directors in the search for a replacement. Steve Cakebread joined salesforce.com as the company’s chief financial officer last […]