SaaS Statistics: Software-as-a-Service, better known as SaaS, has come a great way since its inception in the 1960s. Until recent years, though, many organizations were not fully convinced that they could rely on software products available as a service. However,…
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Microsoft made Marc Benioff’s day. The first day of Salesforce.com’s Cloudforce user conference — headlined by Benioff, its CEO — saw Microsoft employees staking out territory in front of the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, where…
Microsoft patents. Details are scarce. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has not commented beyond the initial announcement of the suit. Horacio Gutierrez, corporate vice president and deputy general counsel of Intellectual Property and Licensing at Microsoft, said in a statement that his…
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) today introduced Visual Process Manager for Force.com, a new rapid application development tool for Force.com users to build applications visually, entering just basic information like the data fields, and generating all of the code behind the scenes.…
Salesforce.com today introduced the summer upgrade to its on-demand CRM software, called Salesforce Summer ’08, featuring enhancements on both the client and server-sides of the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform. Traditionally, Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) upgrades its software around three times per year.…
With the change of seasons comes a change in Salesforce.com. The company today released Salesforce Summer ’07, which marks the availability of its Apex development language and a new buzzword to learn. Software as a service (SAAS) is now passé.…
Just a few miles north of the official geographic territory known as the Silicon Valley in San Mateo, Calif., one of the hottest companies in the high-tech sector is launching a hatchery of sorts for software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers. Salesforce.com took…
Salesforce.com is broadening its database capabilities by adding the ability to work with unstructured data to its AppExchange and CRM applications. The new Apex Content platform is based on technology acquired by Salesforce.com’s March acquisition of Koral Technologies. Koral was…
Salesforce.com today announced the availability of Summer ’06, the 20th release of its on-demand customer relationship management (CRM) software. The new release features additional connectivity options to third-party products and to non-Salesforce.com subscribers. One of the major additions is the…
Article appeared originally on Internetnews.com. Microsoft’s Dynamics CRM product line will be the latest to make the transformation into a “Live” service when it ships next year. But first, Microsoft has to gives its customer relationship management (CRM) software an…