Today, let’s talk about Cloud Deployment Models. Essentially, cloud computing relates to a new way of thinking to a world in which a company’s computers, software and data is not held on a private server in a basement. Instead it’s in a secure shared internet-based environment. In a prior article defining “what is cloud computing“, […]
Cloud Computing
What is the Cloud?
Call this article ‘Cloud computing 101, for Dummies’: it’s really geared to you if you are at the beginning of your learning-curve. Truth be told, you won’t be there alone. Even though some feel that this article ought to have been published a decade ago, the reality is that there is a huge difference in […]
Salesforce Innovation in Italy (#sfmit)
Last week was Salesforce.com’s first “Dreamforce” conference in Italy. We went to have a look. About 350 attendants (out of 1000 registrants) from all over Italy took advantage of the free entrance and made their way to the Marriott in Milan. Only some of the 350 will make their way to adopting Salesforce with a […]
Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Front and Back Office
Dreamforce officially starts today with the main Keynotes starting tomorrow and once again, it’s literally a showcase as Salesforce continues to build out its product line on their ecosystem (as well as one giant party!). Last week, the media had a field day with the Work.com, ChatterBox & Salesforce Identity “announcements” which were potential threats […]
Public Cloud Services Forecast to Grow to $109bn in 2012
Enterprise spending on public cloud services is forecast to grow 19% from $91 billion worldwide in 2011 to $109 billion in 2012. By 2016, enterprise public cloud services spending will reach $207 billion, according to Gartner’s global IT spending forecast* which was issued last week. This promising growth forecast of public cloud services is in […]
The Challenge of Marketing Automation and Cutting ERP Costs
Where is the Cloud shifting Enterprise software, and most importantly, how will that be helping you cutting ERP Costs. Prior to Cloudforce London in May, Marc Benioff talked to the press about a building a full marketing suite/desktop/front office, quoting: “We’ll have a lot to say about that at Dreamforce in September.” Marketing Platform and […]
Salesforce Radian6 Delivers New Insights Technologies and Ecosystem
New Insights technologies enable social enterprises to understand sentiment, intent and demographics across multiple languages for billions of social conversations World’s first Insights ecosystem delivers breakthrough social analytics from industry leaders Clarabridge, Klout, Lymbix, OpenAmplify, OpenCalais, PeekAnalytics and Solariat SAN FRANCISCO — Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the enterprise cloud computing company (http://www.salesforce.com/cloudcomputing/), today announced new Salesforce […]