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Salesforce Unveils Chatter At Dreamforce

November 18, 2009
Written by Ameed Taylor

Marc Benioff unveiled Salesforce.com’s Chatter application on the opening day of the firm’s annual DreamForce conference in Moscone Center In San Francisco.

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Category: Cloud Computing, Conferences, CRM, Salesforce.com, Social Media, Software, Web 2.0

Developer Preview of Force.Com Sites

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November 13, 2008
Written by Ameed Taylor

Salesforce announced last week at its annual Dreamforce user and developer conference in San Francisco Force.com Sites. Force.com Sites is Salesforce’s entry into the burgeoning Cloud Computing arena. Force.com Sites are only available at the moment in a developer preview and are expected to be released to production in calendar year 2009.

Built on Salesforce.coms Visualforce.com platform, Force.com Sites were envisioned as a way for existing Salesforce.com customers to extend their presence and ROI by creating public facing websites and applications. Salesforce benefits due to the fact that these new applications will run on the Visualforce.com platform, thus further expanding Salesforce.com’s revenue stream outside of its core CRM product.

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Category: Cloud Computing, CRM, PAAS, SaaS, Software

Marketo Receives 8 Million In Series B Funding

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August 14, 2008
Written by Ameed Taylor

Marketo; a San Mateo based provider of Business to Business marketing automation software, has received 8 million dollars in Series B funding from Storm Ventures and InterWest Partners. This follows an initial Seed funding round in 2007 from InterWest.