CRM Watchlist 2015 Elite, Part 4: Salesforce does it again
Salesforce has won mindshare at a level so substantial that all other companies — including much bigger ones — compete against it. Salesforce is Elite, all right. But is it perfect?
Salesforce Flirts with the “500”
Two numbers to keep in mind: $4.8208 billion and $5.25 billion. The first number is the revenue reported by Nash-Finch. According to Wikipedia and Fortune magazine, the company is based in Edina, Minnesota, near Minneapolis. It is involved in “Food distribution to private companies, primarily independent supermarkets, and military commissaries; and the operation of retail […]
Whoa Horsey!
Salesforce announced it was holding off on the grand corporate office park it had been envisioning at Mission Bay in San Francisco. It was a wise move by a company that should be focused on growth. In reading the Steve Jobs biography I was amused to see that he loved design so much that when […]
Fortune or People Magazine?
I was reading Fortune’s 50 smartest people in tech and had to stop and check the cover a couple of times to make sure I had not picked up another of Time’s consumery publications Fortune has for decades faithfully cataloged for us corporate business and its ups and downs through its various 500 listings. But […]
Numbers, Volume 44
Private Twitter Yammer now has 70,000 corporate clients, and 800,000+ total seats (users). At least 1,000 of those companies are paying for the product, and Sacks says 10%-15% of seats are converting to paid. 70% of Fortune 500 companies are using Yammer, says Sacks. Paying customers include Cisco, Nationwide, AstraZeneca, Alcatel-Lucent, Sungard and Molson Coors. […]
Update: Fieldglass
Local Chicago software firm is growing, prospering and winning in a down economy and tough, consolidating sector. Learn more about Fieldglass and the issues in the contingent services space.
