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SaaS app manifest destiny
Salesforce just announced that it is buying Rypple, an oddly-named outfit that specializes in performance management and goal-setting. It’s a cloud-based platform for giving employees feedback on how well they do their jobs, and which attempts to make the annual performance-review process — dreaded by so many employees and managers — less, well, dreadful.
Salesforce Gets Into the HR Cloud With Rypple Acquisition – Arik Hesseldahl – News – AllThingsD
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Excerpt from a timely cloud reality check
This sort of development in the cloud has led to a false belief that a complete cloud adoption is on the horizon. Despite the fact that the cloud has proven itself in functionality, scalability and security, there are still certain culture barriers that need to be addressed. For example, manufacturers like to keep their product life-cycle management (PLM) design data behind a firewall. Is that safer than SaaS? No, not really. Does it make them feel better to be in control? Probably. There is a general cultural mindset that needs to be overcome before we see wide-scale cloud adoption across the enterprise.
I think the biggest… Continue reading: Application Strategy 2.0 [Software Advice]
Small world
But the company is also stepping up technical ties with Oracle, whose databases have long been a foundation of its services. NetSuite, has relied on Hewlett-Packard for computing hardware, is for the first time also adding Oracle servers that come bundled with its database software, says Zach Nelson, NetSuite’s president and chief executive.
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Now it might not seen exactly surprising that NetSuite would choose hardware from Oracle, which entered that business by buying Sun Microsystems. Ellison and his family members, after all, held about 55% of NetSuite’s stock as of Mar. 31, according to its public filings.
NetSuite Event Boasts New Offerings, Oracle’s Hurd… Continue reading: NetSuite Event Boasts New Offerings, Oracle’s Hurd – Digits – WSJ
Sprinkling some Facebook magic pixie dust on SaaS CRM
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the enterprise cloud computing (http://www.salesforce.com/cloudcomputing/) company, today announced it has completed its acquisition of Dimdim for approximately $31 million in cash, net of cash acquired.
Founded in 2007, Dimdim has created critical real-time communication technologies such as presence, messaging and screen sharing. With the acquisition, salesforce.com gains Dimdim’s real-time communication technologies, along with a team of world-class developers experienced in building cloud-based collaboration services. Salesforce.com will use the acquisition to bring new real-time communication capabilities to the Chatter collaboration platform, mirroring the proven Facebook model of combining collaboration and communication into an integrated service.
Salesforce.com Acquires Dimdim — SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ –
Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet brings us the latest BPOS roadmap announced at Mictosoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference last week. The emphasis on selling SaaS is gaining ground at Microsoft, including free BPOS for partners, and more likely good deals for customers:
Microsoft showcased at the show this week a number of its partners who’ve already jumped on the BPOS bandwagon. To encourage others to start selling the suite, Microsoft announced that it will offer partners 250 BPOS seats for their own use.
Microsoft shares (officially) its future BPOS plans | ZDNet:
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