AppExchange = Future Growth
Salesforce.com recently announced the acquisition of its 10,000th European customer as well as a 70% increase in new customers over the first quarter of 2008. Chief Strategy Officer Bruce Francis credited the speed of cloud-based implementation as a prime factor in its growth. Speaking from the European Cloudforce Conference, Francis further also cited global recession as a reason for Salesforce’s success, adding "The economic crisis has caused many CIOs to look at alternative computing models.”
Salesforce.com in Gartner, Web Suite, Loyalty Lab
The news as of the first coffee this morning, and the music is a nice Sonny Rollins album for a cool, slightly overcast day, Saxophone Colossus. Some critics call this album a great jazz classic, that may be, First Coffee doesn't know jazz well enough to say, but if so it's one of a handful of jazz albums praised by critics which also happens to be enjoyable listening for the more casual jazz fan, as most critical darling jazz albums are unlistenable exercises in musical deconstruction:
Search quality, continued
A few weeks back Udi Manber introduced the search quality group, and the previous posts in this series talked about the ranking of documents. While the ranking of web documents forms the core of what makes search at Google work so well, your search...
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Everyone puts on a little weight during good times – vacations and holidays are notorious times for over eating, relaxed behavior and good feelings. Well for businesses, the vacation has come to an abrupt end. After years of easy credit and a...
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Bozeman, Montana-based RightNow Technologies has unveiled new "defense-ready hosting capabilities" designed to support both the Department of Defense and other civilian government and intelligence agencies, according to company officials, who add...
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In Australia, the Postal Service can supply a data file or xml integration of all combinations of City, Zip Code and State. I would assume that this is available in other countries also....
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IM Tutorial: Learn how to create an IM bot for Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, AOL AIM and other instant messaging...
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Twitter is a great way to test your headlines and short copy effectiveness. Hundreds of followers and a 140 characters maximum makes for a powerful marketing test environment. Twitter is a quick and efficient way to see if your headlines convert...
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