It's taken a long time for Salesforce.com to get hold of the Force.com domain name that the company unveils today. CEO Marc Benioff told Dan Farber that negotiations took a tough four years. But it ...

Salesforce.com keeps changing the names, which makes it somewhat confusing if you are trying to cover the company’s quest to upend the software industry. This week salesforce.com (the publicly-traded ...

Heroku is a PaaS offering for building next-generation cloud applications Salesforce.com’s (CRM) Heroku is a platform as a service (or PaaS) offering that lets customers and clients build and deploy ...

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.

eSpeaks' Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

On-demand business software vendor Salesforce is expected on Monday to announce Force.com Sites, an offering that lets customers create and run Web sites on Salesforce’s cloud infrastructure.

After Tuesday, Barack Obama and John McCain will (presumably) bury the hatchet and move on with their lives. I'm not quite sure I can say the same thing about the respective heads of Zoho and ...

Salesforce partner FinancialForce is tapping a one-time Salesforce executive as its new CEO as it looks past $100 million in revenue and seeks to establish its own identity in the market.

The future of any enterprise software vendor is being decided today in their developer community. Alex William’s insightful thoughts on Salesforce Is A Platform Company. Period. underscores how ...

Salesforce.com is rolling out a number of upgrades to its Force.com platform in conjunction with the Summer ’12 update to the vendor’s cloud CRM (customer relationship management) software, focusing ...

Salesforce.com is overhauling its program for independent software vendor partners, introducing a new tier plan, expanded program benefits and a standardized revenue-sharing model that could mean fee ...

The major platform-as-a-service offering eases IT management headaches for CIOs and can cost significantly less to develop than in-house solutions. Here's a plain-English look at Force.com and how ...