Salesforce.com Journal

Cloud Expo Early Bird Savings A robust ecosystem of solutions providers is emerging around cloud computing. Here, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal expands its list of most active players in the fast-emerging Cloud Ecosystem, from the 'mere' 100 we identified back in January of this year, to half as many again - testimony, if any further were needed, to the fierce and continuing growth of the "Elastic IT" paradigm throughout the world of enterprise computing. Editorial note: The words in quotation marks used to describe the various services and solutions in this round-up are in every case taken from the Web sites cited. As ever we encourage software engineers, developers, IT operations managers, and new/growing companies in every case to "suck it and see" by downloading... (more)

PivotLink Named Cool Cloud Computing Vendor

Reporting Session at Cloud Expo PivotLink, the leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions delivered via Software as a Service (SaaS), announced that Everything Channel's CRN has named its business analytics solution one of the "100 Coolest Cloud Computing Products." PivotLink's on-demand reporting and analysis solution powers roughly 2,000,000 ad hoc reports for over 15,000... (more)

Infonetics Research: Security high, cloud services low on enterprise data center priority list - new survey

CAMPBELL, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/08/10 -- As part of its Continuous Research Service (CRS) series of analyst notes and surveys on enterprise networking and data centers, Infonetics Research last week published Data Center Deployment Strategies: North American Enterprise Survey. ANALYST NOTE "The data center promises to be a major area of investment and change over the next two years, t... (more)

Adecco Connects Its UK Branches with Magic Software's uniPaaS

Magic Software Enterprises Ltd., a provider of application platforms and business and process integration solutions, announced on Monday that Adecco, a market leader in human resource solutions, has developed MAX, a back-office system for its 200 UK branches, using Magic Software's uniPaaS application platform. Magic Software's uniPaaS is an application platform that simplifies the proc... (more)

Top Ten Benefits of CRM

Dear Lee, I have worked in sales for the past fourteen years and have seen fads come and go. The latest is CRM that, my company has forced upon me. Isn’t CRM just another way for my company to act like BIG BROTHER to watch and monitor my every move? Stan, Tx Dear Stan, Would you board a commercial airline if you knew, 1) the plane was lacking a navigational system, 2) you would be flying... (more)