When online security firm Websense needed to extend an internally-developed tool for creating customer quotes, CIO Jim Haskin was faced with a choice: Continue to build the system in-house or move ...

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and VMware chief Paul Maritz took the stage in San Francisco Tuesday to unveil VMforce, a partnership that will bring Java to the Force.com platform. The implication is ...

May the Force.com be with you... Salesforce.com has launched a software as a service (SaaS) platform that allows businesses to develop their own on-demand applications more easily. The new Force.com ...

Persistent Systems has announced new Force.com enablement initiatives for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). By leveraging Persistent’s new SaaS (News - Alert) Compentency Center and Migration ...

At its annual Dreamforce event, Salesforce.com and several of its partners (Facebook, Google and Amazon) made announcements intended to encourage more businesses to pursue Web-as-a-platform using ...

While Salesforce's on-demand CRM and salesforce automation application remains the company's flagship product and cash cow, the success the company is seeing with Force.com is bringing CEO Marc ...

Dell to use the Force.com platform to build software for its "entire global workforce" in largest-ever deal for Salesforce.com Dell has reached a three-year deal with Salesforce to use the latter’s ...

Two big players in enterprise technology, virtualization company VMware and sales application maker Salesforce.com, announced today that they’re working together on a new service called VMforce. With ...

It took just over 15 minutes for Shaul Gorsht to create a custom expense application from scratch complete with custom fields, a modified sharing model, adjusted layout and an approval process. On ...

Now that Salesforce.com has proved that SaaS (software-as-a-service) is a successful business model, the company hopes to lead the way in cloud computing. Many in the software industry consider cloud ...

TOA identified a common experience in many service organizations – a disconnect occurs among customer service, the customer and the field. Customers don't know precisely when a worker is going to ...