Category Archives: Salesforce

Does SaaS-PaaS=ASP?

Posted on April 8, 2011 by

In the 1990s, analysts proclaimed ASP the future of software. Application Service Providers offered software over the Internet, a revolutionary model that would take over the industry. Unfortunately, customers insist on modifying their enterprise applications, preferring to make the software … Continue reading →

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Chatter, SharePoint, and Collaboration

Posted on April 3, 2011 by

Last Tuesday at the Mountain View campus of LinkedIn, David Coleman, author of Collaboration 2.0, spoke on collaboration at the SDForum’s Web 2.0 SIG. While highlighting a few of the thousands of collaboration products on the market, Coleman praised Chatter … Continue reading →

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Real-Time Analytics at Salesforce.com

Posted on May 28, 2010 by

Learn how Salesforce makes BI real time. Donovan Schneider, Principal Architect at Salesforce.com, gives the inside story at the SDForum BI SIG.

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Software-as-a-Service, the Pure and the Hybrid

Posted on April 9, 2010 by

Among CRM vendors, SalesForce.com pursues the pure software-as-a-service strategy and Microsoft the hybrid strategy. Microsoft customers choose between licensing Dynamics CRM for on-premise installation, hosting with Microsoft, or hosting with a third-party hosting provider. SalesForce.com lets customers host its software … Continue reading →

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