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  • Beyond Subscription – Managing the Entire Customer Revenue Lifecycle

    September 19, 2013

    Business
    Avangate, marc benioff, netsuite, salesforce, Salesforce.com, San Francisco, Software as a Service, Tien Tzuo, zuora
     

    While in San Francisco recently I took the opportunity to chat with Zuora and Avangate – two companies with different views on the topic of helping their customers get money from their clients. Zuora is a subscription and billing…

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  • The Most Interesting DreamForce Rumor–Salesforce Acquires Box

    September 17, 2012

    Business
    ChatterBox, Facebook, google, marc benioff, Michael Arrington, Okta, Salesforce.com, TechCrunch Disrupt
     

    Imagine if Marc Benioff’s “leak” of the launch of their content collaboration tool ChatterBox at TechCrunch Disrupt last week was in fact a smoke screen and this week will see an announcement of an acquisition by salesforce of cloud…

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  • A DreamForce 2010 Look Ahead

    December 3, 2010

    Business
    df10, dreamforce, marc benioff, Salesforce Chatter, Salesforce.com
     

    Next week I’ll be heading (along with around 30000 of my closest friends) to San Francisco for the epicness that is DreamForce. It’s the first year I’ll be attending the event in person, having followed it remotely in its…

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  • NetSuite Announces SuiteSocial, Takes on Salesforce Chatter.

    October 12, 2010

    Business
    Enterprise resource planning, gmail, google, marc benioff, netsuite, Salesforce.com, zach nelson
     

    The big news Over the past year I’ve been on something of a crusade to get NetSuite thinking about and acting upon social inside the enterprise. Every time I run into CEO and President Zach Nelson, my standard question…

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  • Once the BitchSlapping is Over – On Oracle and Salesforce

    September 23, 2010

    Business
    larry ellison, marc benioff, oracle, Oracle Corporation, Salesforce.com
     

    Oracle Open World was a depressingly staid affair (or so it seemed from  distance) with the one exception being the schoolyard antics of Larry Ellison and salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. For those who missed it (and how could you?)…

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  • Salesforce Chatter goes into GA. No Hiding Now Marc!

    June 22, 2010

    enterprise, Product reviews
    chatter, Force.Com, marc benioff, Salesforce.com
     

    I’ve always been partly in awe and partly dubious about the way Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff gives… “aspirational” product announcements. On one level, it’s great to get people thinking and envisioning a future, while on another vaporware is just that – unobtainable and frustrating. Just look at his quote about Chatter: Salesforce Chatter is the […]

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  • In-depth with Benioff

    August 8, 2008

    Business, Design, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0
    marc benioff, salesforce, sarah lacy
     

    A hat tip to Daniel for pointing out that Sarah Lacy got to interview Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff – you ca tell that Sarah was please as punch to have got Benioff, she even dragged out her ladylike dress,…

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