D&B Data is Now Live in Data.com

In September, we launched Data.com with the vision of bringing together the best sources of business information for all of our customers. With D&B data now live directly in salesforce.com, we have taken a huge step forward in achieving that goal. With this update, we are now providing high quality... Read More »

2011: SOCIAL Goes Mainstream

2011 was a banner year for social media. Social tools and the individuals who used them took center stage in major headline events throughout the year and proved beyond a doubt that social media is not just about entertaining and informing, its about connecting like-minded people across the globe, powering... Read More »

Chatter Mobile: Best iPhone Business App in 2011

Normally we aren’t ones to brag (okay, so maybe that's not an entirely honest statement), but we are very pleased that Apple named Salesforce Chatter the best of the iPhone business category in the App Store Rewind 2011! The AppStore Rewind 2011 represents the best content and apps, based on... Read More »

#Cloudforce Japan 2011 – Rebroadcast

Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff delivered two keynotes, broadcast in English and Japanese, from Cloudforce Japan this week. He was joined by special guests and 10,000+ registered attendees who gathered to learn how companies can transform themselves into social enterprises with social, mobile and open cloud computing. Missed the keynotes?... Read More »

Watch Cloudforce 2011 NYC LIVE TODAY!

Today CEO Marc Benioff and special guests from Accenture, GE Capital, Burberry, Google, LinkedIn, Comcast, and Facebook and more—plus 9,000+ salesforce.com experts, customers, and partners will gather in New York City for Cloudforce NYC to unveil the next big thing for the Social Enterprise. Join us to learn how you... Read More »

Video: Dunkin' Donuts Transforms Into a Social Enterprise

The following is a guest post by Tyler Cyr, Web Communications Manager at Dunkin' Brands. Dreamforce 2011 was the occasion for the second gathering of the salesforce.com Social Advisory Board. As part of the meeting, I was interviewed by Brian Solis for his Revolution YouTube series. We spoke a lot... Read More »

Business Data, It Shouldn’t be this Hard

Everyone who has invested any money in deploying CRM applications (like salesforce.com) understands that their ROI will be heavily impacted by the actual quality of the data in the system. "Garbage in, garbage out" is an expression we all can identify with, yet many of you are still struggling to solve this problem. Why is it that it's easy to find good third party data sources but it's really challenging to make that data work seamlessly within your applications and business process flows. Read More »

If You Build It (and a whole lot of people work really, really hard for six years) They Will Come

AppExchange Crosses the One Million Installs Milestone Six years ago salesforce.com launched the world’s first app marketplace, you can check it out here: http://web.archive.org/web/20060316041420/http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange We launched it before cloud was cool and the only thing we had to compare it to was Amazon, eBay and iTunes. It was years before... Read More »

Winter '12 is Here and It's Social

At Dreamforce 2011, we welcomed you to the Social Enterprise, which enables companies to connect to its customers and employees in a whole new way, and with our Winter ‘12 release, Salesforce customers will have an opportunity to experience exactly what this means. With Winter ‘12 we are going social,... Read More »

Salesforce.com in Top 12% in Newsweek’s US Green Rankings

Our customers care about their footprints, which is why we aim to minimize our environmental impact in everything we do. It’s something our community believes in, and it’s something we believe in, too. Exciting news this week, Newsweek ranked salesforce.com in the top 12 percent of the 500 largest US... Read More »