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Salesforce and Core Transactions – Moving Inside from the Edge

July 8, 2013

Business

benioff, ExactTarget, marketing, salesforce, Salesforce.com, SAP AG, Workday, zach nelson

Big news a few weeks ago was the acquisition of ExactTarget by Salesforce at an eye watering $2.5B valuation. Enough people have opined on that deal already – for a good summary check out this Diginomica post. Less well…

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A Big Week for Oracle – Ellison Yet Again Proves He’s a Master Strategist

June 26, 2013

Business

larry ellison, Microsoft, netsuite, oracle, Oracle Corporation, salesforce, Salesforce.com, Workday

So… What to make of all this. In the space of a week we have Oracle announcing deep partnerships with Microsoft, NetSuite and Salesforce. In the case of NetSuite and Salesforce the deal sees those two cloud vendors commit…

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Workday Launches Version 18 – Quick Analysis

November 5, 2012

Business

human resources, linkedin, Performance management, salesforce, SAP AG, Software as a Service, Workday, Workday 18

At the Workday Rising event being held in Las Vegas this week, Workday announced the latest version of its product, on top of which they held an analyst/influcner day that I was following remotely. I’ve got a few thoughts…

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Looking Forward to DreamForce 2012

September 11, 2012

Business

Aneel Bhusri, benioff, Heroku, Rypple, Salesforce.com, VMware, work.com, Workday

The annual Salesforce extravaganza DreamForce is just around the corner (disclosure, I’ll be attending DreamForce and Salesforce will be covering my T&E account) and with it comes my annual look forward and prediction of what is to come. For…

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FinancialForce 2012 Release–Delivering a Loosely Coupled Set of Solutions

September 11, 2012

Business

Customer relationship management, Customer support, Force.Com, netsuite, Salesforce.com, Service Cloud, Workday, zuora

Nicely timed to coincide with next week’s DreamForce conference comes the summer 2012 release from FinancialForce, the cloud accounting company that is both part owned by Salesforce, and built upon the force.com platform. While product announcements tend to be…

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Zuora Partners With a Host of Mid Market Financial Vendors

May 14, 2012

Business

FinancialForce.com, intacct, netsuite, Subscription business model, Tien Tzuo, vindicia, Workday, zuora

In my extensive writing around the subscription billing space, I have often noted that it is a very polarized sector of our industry with a handful of well funded companies providing services for large organizations – Zuora, Vindicia and…

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DreamForce 2011–A Look Back

September 6, 2011

Business

#df11, cloud computing, concur, Heroku, infor, netsuite, Salesforce.com, Social enterprise, wokday, Workday

Having just returned from my trip to the US for DreamForce, I’ve had a bit of time to reflect on the news (see here and here) from the event. I wanted to write up post that takes a more…

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Force.com and Chatter Score a Coup – Hook Workday

September 1, 2011

Business

FinancialForce.com, Force.Com, Heroku, netsuite, Platform as a service, Salesforce Chatter, Salesforce.com, VMforce, Workday

Update – Both Infor and Concur have similar deals announcing today as well – details to come Update #2 – I spent time with Workday during the event to get a deeper understanding of what the force.com part of…

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