"We built out a whole customized system, with Salesforce's support, of call tracking, data collection, " the CEO says.
This all works easily because Salesforce.com has become the central repository of marketing-related data.
Disclosures: I have been a compensated speaker at events held by Spigit, Salesforce, Microsoft, and SAP.
The most successful Web software firm to date, Salesforce.com, thrives by focusing on customer management tasks.
IBM, Salesforce, SAP, and EMC were all down on the day.
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Companies that have used BranchOut include Microsoft, Yahoo, Salesforce, VMWare, Pfizer and State Farm.
Seesmic, with 50 employees and funding from Salesforce, uniquely combines true social CRM with mobile.
Throughout the salesforce.com journey, the company has been a disruptive force against centralized top-down systems.
Staff doubled this year to nearly 700, with key hires from Oracle, Google and Salesforce.
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When Salesforce.com launched, one of its talking points was the superiority of multi-tenant architecture.
Well, the odd episode of Salesforce.com vs. social enterprise has come to an end.
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This move will pit the company against three major competitors, Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM), Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), and IBM.
Analytics is hot and Salesforce.com witnessed the demand when it shipped its Analytics Edition last year.
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Salesforce.com has Force.com, a development platform that sits on top of its industrial-strength software-as-a-service infrastructure.
While he was at Salesforce, he also headed the acquisitions of two start-ups, Dimdim, and GroupSwim.
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Salesforce, as of a year ago, was taking 1.3 years to break even on a customer.
Salesforce.com ( CRM) and Amazon ( AMZN) are two glamour stocks that fit that pattern.
Investors include Millennium Technology Value Partners, Split Rock Partners, Epic Ventures and Salesforce (NYSE:CRM).
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Salesforce.com Inc. had an annual average earnings growth of 43.7% over the past 5 years.
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On Aug. 23, 2012, Salesforce.com announced results for its fiscal second quarter ended July 31, 2012.
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In fact, the company recently sold out to Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM), which is a fast-growing software company.
First, it underscores the reality that Benioff wants to make Salesforce a legitimate player in HCM.
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Curiously Salesforce is an investor in Box and Okta was founded by a Salesforce alum.
Some of the big threats are from companies like Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) and even Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM).
"Nothing is sacred, " says Parker Harris, his buddy, cofounder and head of Salesforce technology.
So far Salesforce employees are using e-mail 40% less than in the pre-Chatter era.
Salesforce.com said the deal will not have a material impact on April quarter results.
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Netsuite already trades at a premium (as measured by price-to-sales) to rivals Salesforce.com and SAP.
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To a future where Salesforce is the hub of a sprawling empire of other people's software.
Developers from AOL, Salesforce.com, Sega and Epocrates also showed off applications built with Apple's tools.
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