When Salesforce.com bought crowdsourced business contact database Jigsaw for $142 million earlier this year, the CRM giant said that it would combine its suite of applications with Jigsaw’s model for the automation of acquiring and keeping up-to-date business contact data. Today, Salesforce is unveiling Jigsaw’s deep integration into the company’s platform, Jigsaw for Salesforce CRM
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Salesforce Completes The Puzzle With Jigsaw For CRM
Google Apps Engine has received a few new updates that include multitenancy capabilities, image serving and custom error messages. The new features are part of the 1.3.6 release of App Engine for Java and Python
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New Updates for Google Apps Engine Includes Picasa Infrastructure
Model Metrics , a consulting firm that specializes in helping enterprise organizations adopt cloud computing technologies, has announced a new feature – Model Metrics Cloud Analytics – that will give its customers a better way to assess their cloud-related data. The new service extends the reporting capabilities in Salesforce and integrates the data in real time with the data generated from traditional IT systems. Sponsor Model Metrics helps its clients leverage a variety of cloud platforms and services, including Salesforce CRM, Amazon Web Services, and Google Apps
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Model Metrics Offers Customized Cloud Analytics
While Salesforce.com’s the unquestioned SaaS revenue leader, Taleo, RightNow, NetSuite and SuccessFactors are all closing in on annual run rates of $200 million. With SuccessFactors this week reporting 27% quarterly revenue growth to $46.8 million, these and other high-growth SaaS vendors have proven they’ve got industrial-strength enterprise chops
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SuccessFactors Revenue Nears $200M As SaaS Grows Up
DEMO , the conference that has served as a launchpad for some of the most exciting emerging technologies over the years, is coming to Silicon Valley this fall. The conference runs Sept.
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Top 5 reasons to attend DEMO Fall 2010 in Silicon Valley
Help desk SaaS provider Zendesk announced new Twitter integration features today, including the ability to create new Zendesk tickets directly from Twitter, record Twitter conversation as part of a ticket, and share relevant Twitter conversations with colleagues across internal platforms.
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Zendesk Offers New Tools to Help Companies Help Twitter Complainers
Three quick Monday morning updates for you from Force.com Labs . 1) Just like LeBron James , Force.com Labs is now on the Twitter. Ping labs at anytime using @ForceDotComLabs and be sure to follow for updates, new app announcements, etc.
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Force.com Labs: Three Things to Get Your Week Started Right
Reinstating an old tradition, here are some external blog posts related to Force.com development that caught my eye during this past week or two: jquery enhanced components now ga – Joel shows off some JQuery based Visualforce components, with funky music Using RSA-SHA1 with Salesforce Crypto Class – Jeff explores crypto, openssl and private keys Generating random numbers in Apex / force.com – more crypto Manually-entered Date value in Apex SOQL query – better times for the system log Force.com Sites Best Practice: Truncate Field Values – a useful reminder that Database.DMLOptions exist
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Interesting Links 2010-July-07
Unsurprisingly, Salesforce is seeing rapid adoption of its social collaboration platform Chatter among its existing customers after launching to the public last week. In its first week of general availability, Chatter has been integrated by 10,000 of Salesforce’s 77,300 existing customers, or 13 percent of Salesforce’s customer base
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Salesforce Chatterizes 10,000 Of Its Customers First Week After Public Launch
On June 22nd at the Cloudforce 2010 event in San Jose we held a Chatter-focused hackathon on Tuesday night. Kicking things off just before 6pm gave us about 3 hours of hacking time, and everybody settled into their beanbags with pizza and beers quickly and got going. The hackathon focused on Chatter functionality, and when the dust settled we saw quite a wide range of applications.
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Cloudforce 2010 hackathon wrapup
