UPDATED: Salesforce.com plugs its on-demand customer relationship management software as easy to install and easy to customize. But customers like Merrill Lynch still could use some consulting help, evidently. On Tuesday, San Francisco-based Salesforce.com announced that Merrill Lynch had signed…
SAN FRANCISCO — When Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff coined the company tagline “the end of software,” he wasn’t kidding. He’s planning to eat Microsoft’s lunch. Step by step, Salesforce.com is building a Web services platform that aims to replace a…
Salesforce.com launched the sforce Developer Program for Microsoft Office, featuring a set of free tools and resources to help its on-demand CRM software play nice with the suite. Wednesday’s announcement came as part of Microsoft’s Office Systems Developers Conference, taking…
For better or worse, e-commerce lacks human sales help. Online broker Esurance hopes a virtual customer service rep can get users over the initial hump of signing on. The San Francisco-based Esurance is the e-commerce operation of White Mountains Insurance,…
Microsoft’s business solutions group has launched its latest ERP application for the mid-market. Solomon 6.0 is targeting businesses with heavy lifting computing needs with projects or services.In this release, project management and accounting have become one integrated business system. Integrating…
Interest is high in salesforce.com’s initial public offering. On Tuesday, it raised the expected opening price a second time, from a high of $8.50 per share to $11, in expectation of raking in around $110 million dollars. The San Francisco-based…
HP is lining up to help suppliers keep track of everything from firelogs to toy fire trucks using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. The systems and printer vendor is just the latest major tech play to shine a spotlight on…
Long-time CRM player Siebel Systems shook up its senior ranks today with news that its founder Tom Siebel has relinquished the chief executive role. Former IBM senior executive and vice president Michael J. Lawrie will take over as CEO. Lawrie,…
Salesforce.com has amended its regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission for its upcoming IPO with an offer of 10 million shares. The amended S1 filing prices the shares at between $7.50 and $8.50, which would value its initial…
Multi-channel consumer electronics retailer TigerDirect added a new way for customers to pay with the addition of the “Bill Me Later” service from I4 Commerce, the company said in a statement Tuesday. The Timonium, Md.-based payment service provider today announced…