Posts Tagged ‘ Salesforce.com ’

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 6-27-11

This seemed to be one of the more interesting weeks I’ve seen in quite a while. Yahoo makes a big move in Big Data, Google+ launches, Homeaway IPO’s and much more. Good stuff, take a read through. They’re dancing in the streets of Austin…well that isn’t so out of the ordinary on Sixth Street. But after [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 3-28-11

Before we get into the Top 10, I just felt I had to share this parody of Magic Quadrants and Hype Cycles. Funny stuff.   The biggest news over the weekend was the new feature that Southwest Airlines debuted – sunroofs – that didn’t go over so well [CNN Video]. Southwest grounded amost 80 planes and [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 1-3-11

While there is a lot of travel and technology news to get to, the most important and awful news of the week was the terrible tragedy this weekend in Tuscon as an armed man opened fire at a meeting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, shooting the Congresswoman in the head and killing 6 people including a [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 12-6-10

A very interesting week indeed. In particular a lot of news out of Salesforce.com and TripAdvisor. Salesforce.com had their Dreamforce event last week and there was no shortage of news. IDC #staranalyst Michael Fauscette summarizes the show, but I wanted to highlight 3 announcements of note: Salesforce Chatter goes Freemium. Perhaps one of the most important announcements [ READ MORE ]

Time to Call BS on Cloud Vendor Lock-In

The only issue more overblown than Cloud Security may be this one. I was reading yet another post on the topic today and felt compelled to write this. The premise the Lock-In Boogeymen are selling is that because of the proprietary APIs and mechanisms that are used in many of the large cloud computing (e.g. IaaS [ READ MORE ]

10 Things that Caught My Eye — Week of 4-26-10

A lot of stuff happened while I was OpenTravel’s 2010 Advisory Forum in Seattle this past week: I’d be remiss if I didn’t start with the successful IPO of Amadeus (AMA.MC), the largest GDS and leader in global travel technology solutions…and Ness Software Product Labs’ signature client in the travel technology space. Apple buys Siri.  It’s not [ READ MORE ]

Salesforce.com buys Jigsaw for $142M

Reported early this morning by TechCrunch, Salesforce.com “announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Jigsaw, which provides crowd-sourced data services in the cloud, for approximately $142 million in cash, plus a performance-based earn out of up to 10% of the purchase price.” Surprisingly, the deal’s not supposed to close for [ READ MORE ]

10 Things That Caught My Eye: Week of 3-8-10

A little late, but here’s your weekly bit of curation: Mashable: Google v. Yahoo. Who has the right social strategy? It may not be who you think. Build or Buy revisited. From RedMonk’s @sogrady: “What Sports Can Teach Us About Analytics: The MIT Sloan Conference“  Great post about Dorkapalooza. Wished I could have attended. TechCrunch: [ READ MORE ]

I Wonder What Benioff is Thinking about Google’s Apps Marketplace?

The march of the app stores continues, but this time for the enterprise, not the smartphone.  Earlier this week Google launched their Apps Marketplace to much fanfare with about 50 apps including Intuit, Concur, TripIt and Zoho and reportedly bigger players like Netsuite are on the way.  The App Marketplace provides very tight coupling with [ READ MORE ]

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