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Salesforce at 15

By Denis Pombriant on March 7, 2014

Fifteen is an interesting anniversary.  We tend to think about major anniversaries in ten-year increments with the five-year internode acting more as a gut check.  Fifteen is close enough to the creation that all of the relevant parties are still around and most are still in place.  But it’s also far enough in the rearview […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged benioff, Parker Harris, salesforce, salesforce.com, San Francisco, Siebel Systems

News Analysis: Oracle’s Cloud Disruption Webinar Recording

News Analysis: Oracle’s Cloud Disruption Webinar Recording

By R "Ray" Wang on July 1, 2013

Oracle’s recent partnership announcements to supply Oracle technology to key cloud vendors such as Microsoft, NetSuite, and Salesforce.com create serious implications for the market.On June 28, 2013, Esteban Kolsky, Holger Mueller, and R “Ray” Wang discussed the implications  of Oracle’s recent partnerships for: Salesforce customers Microsoft customers NetSuite customers Oracle customers Cloud competitors such as Amazon, Google, […]

Posted in Business | Tagged @ekolsky, @holgermu, @larryellison, #bromance, Azure, benioff, Cloud, Dell, Esteban Kolsky, HANA, Holger Mueller, hp, ibm, Larry Ellison, Larry's Kids, Marc Benioff, microsoft, netsuite, oracle, R, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, salesforce, sap, saphana, Software Insider, SoftwareiInsider, SoftwareInsider, Steve Ballmer, TeleNovella, Vertica, Zach Nelson

Ellison, Benioff Meet the Press

Ellison, Benioff Meet the Press

By Denis Pombriant on June 28, 2013

The joint conference call for press and analysts between Larry Ellison and Marc Benioff was both more and less than expected.  It was weird to hear them talking to each other in complementary terms rather than firing shots across each other’s bows but all that history was more show than anything else, I think.  To […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged benioff, CRM, Larry Ellison, Larry's Kids, oracle, salesforce.com | 3 Responses

Salesforce and Oracle in a Deal

Salesforce and Oracle in a Deal

By Denis Pombriant on June 25, 2013

To me it looks like Oracle is buying SFDC but to skirt the SEC and DOJ, and to avoid sticker shock, they’ll do a slow motion merger and present the market with a fait accompli in 9 years…

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged benioff, Larry Ellison, Larry's Kids, Marc Benioff, netsuite, oracle, Oracle Exadata, salesforce, salesforce.com | 1 Response

Salesforce Back in the Apple with a New Message

Salesforce Back in the Apple with a New Message

By Denis Pombriant on February 28, 2013

Salesforce came to New York this week for its annual winter meeting with customers intent on testing new ideas and capturing customer input.  The event was held at the Waldorf Astoria for a relatively small group (under one thousand) rather than at the Javitz Center, which can accommodate the maintenance facilities for a squadron of […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged benioff, Customer Company, Ed Koch, new york, salesforce, salesforce.com, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel | 1 Response

Takeaways from Cloudforce, and a Bit More

By Denis Pombriant on October 22, 2012

At Cloudforce, New York last Friday, we heard a smattering of things we also got at Dreamforce.  That was part of the plan because Salesforce bills its regional events as a chance to bring Dreamforce to the customer.  As proof I heard that Marc Benioff and crew are off to Japan this week to do […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged benioff, cloudforce, CRM, df12, Dreamforce, economics, kondratiev, microsoft, salesforce

NetSuite Takes OOW Stage

NetSuite Takes OOW Stage

By Denis Pombriant on October 4, 2012

This week Zach Nelson, CEO of NetSuite, a.k.a. Larry’s other company, took over the Marc Benioff chair as guest antagonist but given the relationship between the companies the vibe was more sedate.  For instance, no one went to the talk at the Lam Theater in Yerba Buena Gardens wondering if Nelson would be controversial or […]

Posted in Business | Tagged benioff, Current Affairs, erp, Larry Ellison, netsuite, OOW, oow12, oracle, technology, two tier, Zach Nelson | 1 Response

OOW Keynote, Larry Ellison

OOW Keynote, Larry Ellison

By Denis Pombriant on October 1, 2012

I honestly thought I was going to have to wait longer to hear anyone from Oracle talk about seriously focusing the company’s hardware and software lines on the Cloud.  True, they’ve been saying cloud-like things for a couple of years but the pronouncements were features and functions that added something to the cloud discussion without […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged benioff, Cloud Computing, CRM, ellison, Larry Ellison, netsuite, OOW, oow12, oracle, Oracle Corporation, Oracle Exadata, Oracle OpenWorld, RightNow Technologies, salesforce, salesforce.com, technology | 4 Responses

Dreamforce 12 – Crazy Big, with Lower Barriers

Dreamforce 12 – Crazy Big, with Lower Barriers

By James Governor on September 21, 2012

Tweet Dreamforce is a big event. Crazy big. Nearly 90,000 people came to San Francisco this week for the annual celebration of all things salesforce.com. The city shut down Howard Street between the north and south sides of the Moscone Center so that the company could pack in even more people. Salesforce did a slick […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged benioff, df12, Dreamforce, heroku, redmonk, salesforce.com, San Francisco, Uncategorized | 3 Responses

More Dreamforce, Please

More Dreamforce, Please

By Denis Pombriant on September 14, 2012

Dreamforce hasn’t even happened yet and I am already wishing it was about double the time it’s set up for.  I’m arriving in San Francisco on Monday, two days before Marc Benioff’s keynote kicks everything off and I am already running late. As has become customary, many Salesforce partners are holding user group meetings just […]

Posted in Business | Tagged benioff, Cloud Computing, CRM, df12, Dreamforce, Kanaracus, networkworld, salesforce, TechCrunch

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