forcefoundation.com

1. Salesforce for Google Apps
(Platform as a Service/Salesforce Watch Blog)

As many expected, today Salesforce has announced the launch of "Salesforce for Google Apps". The embargo was lifted at midnight and Mashable! and Techcrunch appeared to be first out of the gate ...

2. Spring '08 Release Update
(Platform as a Service/Official Salesforce Blog)

Salesforce.com's Spring '08 release is just around the corner, so we wanted to highlight some of the exciting new features you can expect from our force.com platform and SaaS applications. If you haven't ...

3. May the Force.com Be with You
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

There has been no lack of stories about Force.com , the new platform-as-a-service offering that Salesforce.com announced in 2007 and has been building on ever since. One analyst last week even went so ...

4. Salesforce Marketing Best Practice Series
(Platform as a Service/Salesforce Marketing Blog)

Being new to the Salesforce Marketing product team, I've had to get up to speed on what the Salesforce Marketing product is all about. As a long time customer and internal user of the marketing product ...

5. Oracle to buy Salesforce.com?
(Platform as a Service/Salesforce Collective Blog)

Former FT reporter Tom Foremski is reporting for SiliconValleyWatcher that Salesforce has been shopping itself to Oracle for $75 a share or around $9 billion.  He points out several reasons why the deal ...

6. Salesforce.com Further Integrates with Google Apps
(Platform as a Service/Thoughts On Salesforce)

Salesforce.com has added a toolkit to its Force.com platform today that allows its partners and developers to access Google’s Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). The toolkit, which lets programmers ...

7. Salesforcetimes.com: What’s in store
(Platform as a Service/Salesforce Times Blog)

We're 10 months old this month! Truth be told I hadn't realized it had been that long since I started the site - it's been an interesting ride. What started out as a small blog for Salesforce.com consultants ...

8. Salesforce and Google Apps
(Platform as a Service/Thoughts On Salesforce)

The announcement of Salesforce for Google Apps has again raised questions about why Google hasn’t been successful in getting major corporations to widely deploy its Web-based productivity applications, ...

9. Salesforce to Salesforce Service Announced Today
(Platform as a Service/Salesforce Watch Blog)

According to this post on TechCrunch, Salesforce is announcing their "Salesforce-to-Salesforce" (S2S) service today. The service will allow companies using Salesforce.com to share data with one ...

10. Thrivent choses Salesforce
(Platform as a Service/Salesforce Times Blog)

Look ma, a blue moon! Sarcasm aside, when a big financial house choses to do anything leading edge (and it involves YOU!) that's a big page to add to your success story.  Convincing the old money giants ...

11. Surprise First: Bluewolf OpenSupport
(Platform as a Service/Salesforce Times Blog)

... via their OpenSupport program.  OpenSupport is paid access to Salesforce professionals working at Bluewolf for everything from configuration, setup, ...  ...

12. SFDC: Humility shattering pat on the back
(Platform as a Service/Salesforce Times Blog)

The CRO magazine has just published a big article on Salesforce.com and Mark Benioff. CRO? It stands for "Corporate Responsibility Officer" and is a magazine that chiefly focuses itself on topics like ...

13. SaaS, foibles and saving graces
(Platform as a Service/Salesforce Times Blog)

Tim Phillips has written a good piece at a hardware review site that showcases some of Saas' more endearing qualities while at the same time peppering it with a bit of cautious scrying. The opening section ...

14. Is imitation the sincerest form of flattery?
(Platform as a Service/Salesforce Times Blog)

Linda Brewton starts her piece over at The Motley Fool with that line as she takes a short jab at Microsoft's new strategy for delivering it's online business kit. The strategy?  It's basically the rest ...

15. Salesforce and Apple iPhone SDK
(Platform as a Service/Salesforce Watch Blog)

At today's Apple iPhone event, Salesforce's Chuck Dietrich, vice president of mobile, demos Salesforce.com functionality built natively on the iPhone using Apple's new developer SDK. According to Dietrich, ...

16. Salesforce/Oracle Deal?
(Platform as a Service/Salesforce Watch Blog)

Silicon Valley Watcher's Tom Foremski is reporting that a reliable source tells him Salesforce.com has approached Oracle about a potential sale. If you've had your fill of Microsoft/Yahoo news this week, ...

17. Where in the World is Appirio?
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... (SaaS) platforms that have now emerged from the likes of Salesforce.com, Google and Amazon.com. While these projects may be less awe-inspiring than actually addressing the issue of world hunger, they ...

18. New Salesforce Blog by X-Squared On Demand
(Platform as a Service/Perspectives on Salesforce)

A new Salesforce related blog popped up recently by X-Squared On Demand, a Salesforce partner.  It’s written by David Schach. Check it out at http://www.x2od.com/blog/ ShareThis A new Salesforce ...

19. New Package Available, Sah-weet!
(Platform as a Service/Salesforce for Google AdWords Blog)

We've recently released a brand-spankin' new version of the Salesforce for Google AdWords package on AppExchange, and its got some great new functionality for both new and existing advertisers. Highlights ...

20. Salesforce.com Receives Intelligent Enterprise 2008 Editors’ Choice Award
(Platform as a Service/Official Salesforce Blog)

We’re thrilled to announce that Intelligent Enterprise Magazine has given salesforce.com a 2008 Editors’ Choice Award and named it to the “Intelligent Enterprise Dozen”. In naming its Award recipients, ...