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Oracle Is Set to Acquire Business-to-Consumer Marketing Software Vendor Responsys
Dec 23, 2013Oracle is set to acquire business-to-consumer marketing software vendor Responsys for US$1.5 billion in a bid to flesh out its own capabilities as well as strike back at rivals such as Salesforce.com and Microsoft. Responsys’ ...
Tags: Oracle, Marketing Software
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Salesforce1 Is Nothing More Than an Attempt by Salesforce
Nov 27, 2013Salesforce1 is nothing more than an attempt by Salesforce to smooth over its customer message in the face of falling share value, a Gartner analyst has accused. Speaking to Computing at Salesforce's Dreamforce 2013 conference in San ...
Tags: Dreamforce, salesforce1, branding, exercise, Gartner
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Oracle and Netsuite Are to Jointly Offer Cloud Services to Mid-Size Business Customers
Jul 1, 2013Oracle and NetSuite are to jointly offer cloud services to mid-size business customers. The alliance announced Wednesday was the third last week around Oracle's technologies. The Redwood Shores, California, company announced earlier last ...
Tags: Cloud Services, software, Computer Products
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Salesforce.com and Oracle Have Announced a New Cloud Deal Encompassing Applications
Jun 25, 2013As trailed last week,Salesforce.com and Oracle have announced a new cloud deal encompassing applications,platform and infrastructure in a comprehensive nine-year partnership unveiled today. Putting aside their past differences-which ...
Tags: Oracle, Salesforce, cloud, applications
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Oracle and Cloud CRM Will Announce a New Alliance Next Week
Jun 24, 2013Software giant Oracle and cloud CRM company Salesforce.com will announce a new alliance next week that will see the two companies "unite" their respective clouds. "Larry and I both agree we need to unite our clouds," said Marc Benioff, ...
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SAP Has Held Talks in The Last Few Weeks to Acquire Jive Software
May 29, 2013Software giant SAP has held talks in the last few weeks to acquire Jive Software - but decided not to buy the company, according to sources. Jive makes social applications for businesses including SAP, and has a market value of more than ...
Tags: SAP, Software, Computer Products
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Salesforce.com Is Taking Steps to Combine Its Acquisitions in Social Media Monitoring
Apr 25, 2013Salesforce.com is taking steps to combine its acquisitions in social media monitoring and social advertising with its core CRM (customer relationship management) software through a new product called Social.com. The new product, which was ...
Tags: Computer Products, webservice
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Salesforce.Com's Annual Dreamforce Event Is Coming up in Just a Few Weeks
Dec 31, 2012Salesforce.com's annual Dreamforce event is coming up in just a few weeks, but during Thursday's second-quarter earnings call, CEO Marc Benioff couldn't help but share some of the big announcements the cloud software vendor has planned for ...
Tags: Salesforce, Marketing Cloud, Deeper Workday Links, HTML5
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Salesforce.Com's Benioff Doubled Down on The Embrace of Social Networking Software
Dec 31, 2012IDG News Service - Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff on Wednesday doubled down on the company's embrace of social networking software, urging customers, partners and prospects to join him in a "social revolution," during a keynote address at ...
Tags: social networking software, networking software, software
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ET Today to Mark a Moment of Silence for The 26 Women and Children
Dec 21, 2012A long list of Web sites went dark for one minute at 9:30 a.m.ET today to mark a moment of silence for the 26 women and children who were murdered a week ago at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown,Conn. Earlier this week,Connecticut ...
Tags: Web sites, Sandy Hook Victims, silence, honor
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Salesforce.com Decided to Withdraw Its Applications to Trademark The "Social Enterprise"
Dec 19, 2012Salesforce.com has decided to withdraw its applications to trademark the term “social enterprise” following objections from social organisations who held that the term was understood to describe businesses with a social purpose, ...
Tags: cloud, cloud computing, Salesforce, social organisation, trademark
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Salesforce.com Decided to Withdraw Its Applications to Trademark The "Social Enterprise"
Dec 19, 2012Salesforce.com has decided to withdraw its applications to trademark the term “social enterprise” following objections from social organisations who held that the term was understood to describe businesses with a social purpose, ...
Tags: cloud, cloud computing, Salesforce, social organisation, trademark
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Microsoft's Upcoming Windows 8 Will Mark "The End" of The Computer Industry's Dominant OS
Dec 19, 2012Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 will mark “the end” of the computer industry’s dominant OS due to increasing competition and choice sparked by alternatives, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff predicted Friday. Windows ...
Tags: cloud, Marc Benioff, Microsoft, operating system, Salesforce, Windows
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Salesforce.com Is Getting Ready to Roll out a Competing Product
Dec 19, 2012Salesforce.com is getting ready to roll out a competing product to popular file-sharing and online storage service Dropbox as well as an identity management system that could rival companies like Okta, CEO Marc Benioff revealed Tuesday ...
Tags: Salesforce.com, competing product, online storage service, Dropbox
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Oracle Becomes a Bigger Company
Dec 18, 2012With each year, Oracle becomes a bigger company and in turn, so does its annual OpenWorld conference, which kicks off Sunday in San Francisco. In fact, Oracle's long run of acquisitions, spanning from applications to middleware to ...
Tags: Oracle, OpenWorld conference, 2012