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3 Talent Management Software Contenders to Watch This Year
Posted May 29, 2013 by Mark Aspillera
Every organization is an amalgamation of the skills and talents each of its individual employees brings to the table. Retaining those employees through sound HR practices is a task that's existed a long time before… Read More
The Competitive Edge of Cloud Apps Built on Force.com
Posted December 5, 2012 by N. Rowan
FinancialForce.com develops cloud-based apps to help run your business more smoothly in the areas of financial management and professional services automation. Built on salesforce.com's Force platform, FinancialForce.com's strength lies in building business logic around existing… Read More
Compare and Contrast: Dreamforce '12 and Oracle Open World '12
Posted October 5, 2012 by Mark Aspillera
To attend both Salesforce.com's annual Dreamforce event and Oracle's Open World is to get a study in contrasts. Held a week away from each other and hosted in the same city in the exact same… Read More
Salesforce’s SMB Story: Great Vision, But a Complicated Plot Line
Posted October 2, 2012 by Laurie McCabe
“Why can’t business software be as easy to use as buying a book on Amazon?” Hilary Koplow-McAdams, President of Salesforce.com’s Commercial Division, told the crowd at the Dreamforce 2012 SMB keynote. This is the question… Read More
Dreamforce '12 Wrapup
Posted October 1, 2012 by Mark Aspillera
Dreamforce 2012 has come and gone, and just in time for Oracle's own Open World event, hosted in the exact same location in downtown San Francisco. As part of the 80,000-odd attendees of Salesforce.com's annual… Read More
Faces at Dreamforce '12
Posted September 18, 2012 by N. Rowan
The Business-Software.com team is at Dreamforce '12 this week, documenting what is called "the cloud computing event of the year." We will be talking with innovative brand name companies, the hottest start-ups, and attendees to… Read More
What to Watch for at Dreamforce ’12
Posted September 18, 2012 by James Sullivan
Today through Friday, anyone with a stake in cloud computing will be paying close attention to Dreamforce ’12. The 10th incarnation of Salesforce.com’s annual cloud computing convention will be held for the 8th straight year… Read More
Xero Gives QuickBooks Accounting a Run for Its Money
Posted September 16, 2012 by N. Rowan
Online accounting provider Xero recently launched its US operation to chip away at QuickBooks' leading market share of small business accounting. The company has a strong claim to the throne: Xero has 100,000 users worldwide and recently… Read More
Desk.com Puts Social Into The Help Desk Environment
Posted September 11, 2012 by Mark Aspillera
Think of the name Salesforce.com and the first thing that comes to mind is, naturally, cloud computing. In particular you might think of cloud-based Customer Relations Management, the segment that Salesforce has pioneered and maintained… Read More
Top 5 Platform as a Service Providers
Posted August 8, 2012 by N. Rowan
Platform-as-a-Service is a young market, undergoing vast changes. Many of its key players have only been active in the field for a couple of years, with giants like Oracle and HP just recently getting into… Read More