At its annual Dreamforce event, Salesforce.com and several of its partners (Facebook, Google and Amazon) made announcements intended to encourage more businesses to pursue Web-as-a-platform using ...

Known in cloud-computing lingo as a platform-as-a-service (PaaS), Force.com makes the jobs of IT managers like Haskin easier by simplifying development and eliminating infrastructure headaches.

While Salesforce's on-demand CRM and salesforce automation application remains the company's flagship product and cash cow, the success the company is seeing with Force.com is bringing CEO Marc ...

Salesforce.com has announced its latest platform-to-platform integration — this time with Google. Force.com for Google App Engine is a new set of tools and services that allows developers to build Web ...

TOA identified a common experience in many service organizations – a disconnect occurs among customer service, the customer and the field. Customers don't know precisely when a worker is going to ...

Now that Salesforce.com has proved that SaaS (software-as-a-service) is a successful business model, the company hopes to lead the way in cloud computing. Many in the software industry consider cloud ...

May the Force.com be with you... Salesforce.com has launched a software as a service (SaaS) platform that allows businesses to develop their own on-demand applications more easily. The new Force.com ...

Dell to use the Force.com platform to build software for its "entire global workforce" in largest-ever deal for Salesforce.com Dell has reached a three-year deal with Salesforce to use the latter’s ...

news analysis Salesforce.com is trying to persuade its customers to use its hosting platform, called force.com, to serve up their online applications, but even the company's leaders admit that most ...

It took just over 15 minutes for Shaul Gorsht to create a custom expense application from scratch complete with custom fields, a modified sharing model, adjusted layout and an approval process. On ...

Two big players in enterprise technology, virtualization company VMware and sales application maker Salesforce.com, announced today that they’re working together on a new service called VMforce. With ...