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Salesforce: The unifying message is 'customer first'

Salesforce: The unifying message is ‘customer first’

By Michael Krigsman on September 21, 2015

In November 2008, I attended Salesforce.com’s annual Dreamforce conference for the first time along with 9,000 of the company’s customers and partners. The sense of camaraderie among attendees, many of whom were early adopters of the cloud and software-as-a-service religion, was eye-opening. Along with CEO Marc Benioff’s evangelical fervor for the cloud, the catchy “No […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged #df15, CXO, salesforce.com, San Francisco

Come to the SaaStr Annual and Make a Week of It

Come to the SaaStr Annual and Make a Week of It

By Jason M. Lemkin on May 25, 2015

It’s not often you get an opportunity to join 5,000 of your peers in SaaS in one location for a week.  Sure we gather at Dreamforce, wave as we run across Moscone to our next customer meeting or maybe catch up for 5 minutes at one of the 17 parties that night, but rarely do […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged #SaaStrAnnual, Events, hubspot, mark suster, SaaStr, San Francisco, Upfront Ventures

Ok, We’ve Shut Registration Down at 1,850 Folks for The SaaStr Annual.  What You Need to Know.

Ok, We’ve Shut Registration Down at 1,850 Folks for The SaaStr Annual. What You Need to Know.

By Jason M. Lemkin on February 4, 2015

Phew.  Ok well we went a bit over capacity, but we’ll have 1,850 SaaS founders, CEOs, execs and entrepreneurs at the (first?) SaaStr Annual this Thursday in San Francisco at The Regency Ballroom. A few things to know, if your coming, and if you’re not: > If you’re coming to the day sessions, come early […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged Entrepreneurship, Events, saas, SaaStr, San Francisco, startups | 1 Response

Unpicking the multi-cloud at GigaOM Structure

Unpicking the multi-cloud at GigaOM Structure

By Paul Miller on May 16, 2013

Image © Mission Bay Conference Center Last month, RightScale’s State of the Cloud report got me thinking about the rise of multi-cloud solutions. Next month, I’ll be moderating a Mapping Session at GigaOM’s Structure event to work out how, where, when, why and if this trend is going to prove significant. Hybrid clouds, in which one […]

Posted in Platforms | Tagged ben kepes, cloud, cloud computing, david linthicum, Enterprise Computing, GigaOM, GigaOM Pro, gigaom research, hybrid cloud, iaas, jo maitland, mapping session, mission bay, multi cloud, multicloud, private cloud, public cloud, rightscale, San Francisco, structure, structure 2013, structureconf

MadeiraCloud Raises $1.5M From Sequoia Capital To Help Cloud Users Better Deploy Their Cloud Diagrams

MadeiraCloud Raises $1.5M From Sequoia Capital To Help Cloud Users Better Deploy Their Cloud Diagrams

By Ofir Nachmani on May 9, 2013

MadeiraCloud, a new cloud management player, today announced it has raised Series A funding from Sequoia Capital. MadeiraCloud’s unique cloud management service enables drag and drop tools to allow users quickly and easily design, provision, manage and monitor cloud infrastructure resources. The company also announced full support for Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Virtual Private Cloud […]

Posted in Business, Product reviews, Technology | Tagged Amazon Web Services, aws, cloud computing, San Francisco, Sequoia Capital, Virtual Private Cloud | 1 Response

A Pictorial Tale of Two Conferences (and more)

A Pictorial Tale of Two Conferences (and more)

By Zoli Erdos on October 3, 2012

Recently I’ve attended two conferences two weeks apart in San Francisco, and the difference in style is shocking.  One did not even feel like a conference, rather a Festival – Woodstock, Mardi Gras, SXSW – your pick:-)  The other a decidedly more “closed” traditional corporate conference, so much so, that fellow commentators actually compared it […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged #df12, box, box.net, boxworks, conferences, dreamforce, festival, Howard Street, Moscone, Moscone Center, netsuite, oow, oow12, opennes, Oracle, salesforce.com, San Francisco, suiteworld, workday | 4 Responses

Dataloader.io Provides Easy Salesforce Migration

Dataloader.io Provides Easy Salesforce Migration

By Ben Kepes on September 13, 2012

One of the great untold barriers to actually moving to the cloud is the not insignificant pain that organizations feel when migrating their data from an existing system of record to a cloud solution. This is especially the case when the solution is both an integral part of the organization’s

Posted in Application Software | Tagged appexchange, cloud computing, customer relationship management, database, salesforce, salesforce.com, San Francisco

Zendesk Scores New Funding Round and Updated Interface

Zendesk Scores New Funding Round and Updated Interface

By Ben Kepes on September 12, 2012

I’ve been writing about helpdesk provider Zendesk now for going on five years. Their original employee, and now APAC head, Michael Hansen, likes to tell the story about their first blog coverage (a piece I wrote for ReadWriteWeb) corresponding with the beginning of their hockey-stick growth. I don’t know about that, but I do know […]

Posted in Application Software, Entrepreneurship | Tagged assistly, Charles River, facebook, mikkel svane, ReadWriteWeb, Redpoint Ventures, San Francisco, vc funding, zendesk | 1 Response

CloudBeat is back – and the call for papers is open

CloudBeat is back – and the call for papers is open

By Paul Miller on August 14, 2012

Right at the end of November, we’ll once again be doing what we can to assemble a stellar cast of cloud companies and their customers at the Sofitel in Redwood City, just south of San Francisco.

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged cloud computing, CloudBeat, cloudbeat2012, redwood city, San Francisco, silicon valley, sofitel, venturebeat

Why Technology is Driving More Urban Renewal

Why Technology is Driving More Urban Renewal

By Mark Suster on July 10, 2012

Like many I read the headlines about Pinterest moving from Palo Alto to San Francisco and thought about the trend it portends.For those not familiar with the local geography, Palo Alto is the north end of what most consider “Silicon Valley” although nobody local calls it that. Palo Also is about 35 miles south of […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Entrepreneurship, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Startup Advice, startups

Social – An Enterprise Overlay, or an Enterprise Fabric?

Social – An Enterprise Overlay, or an Enterprise Fabric?

By Ben Kepes on June 12, 2012

On a recent trip to San Francisco I spent talking with both salesforce and NetSuite people about their approach and general view of “social” as it relates to enterprise software. I call out these two vendors because while both are cloud-centric enterprise software companies, they have very different views on social. In fact, salesforce and […]

Posted in Application Software, Enterprise, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Burberry, Enterprise resource planning, netsuite, salesforce.com, San Francisco, Social Enterprise, social media, suiteworld, yammer

Chatter Messenger – Real-Time Synchronicity

Chatter Messenger – Real-Time Synchronicity

By Ben Kepes on May 22, 2012

  Messenger sees salesforce roll out technology they gained from the acquisition of DimDim – real time aims to build upon the usage of Chatter by offering a whole raft of real time functionality that will remove the need for organizations to continue using a number of tools they currently do. Real time enables presence […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged chatter, cloudforce, dimdim, dreamforce, instant messaging, messenger, Realtime, salesforce, salesforce.com, San Francisco

New Facebook IPAD application rocks but

New Facebook IPAD application rocks but

By Dan Morrill on October 13, 2011

With everything there is always the potential for using something for good, or just downright stalking people. I downloaded the IPAD application last night for Facebook, and overall I really like it. But thought that the mapping feature was simply … Continue reading →

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Just for fun | Tagged app store, Domestic violence, facebook, humor, San Francisco, seattle, stalking

On Larry, and Marc, and All Publicity being Good Publicity

On Larry, and Marc, and All Publicity being Good Publicity

By Ben Kepes on October 4, 2011

So I’ve been mentioning it on Twitter all afternoon, after being one of the first to pick up on the announcement from Marc Benioff that Oracle had reneged on its offer for a keynote position at Oracle’s OpenWorld event in San Francisco this week. Ever the showman, Benioff turned it

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged #OOW11, Benioff, Ellison, larry ellison, Oracle, salesforce.com, San Francisco, twitter | 1 Response

Is the Stack Dead?

Is the Stack Dead?

By Ben Kepes on September 14, 2011

For years now those of us who talk Cloud on a daily basis have used variations on a triangle shape as a way to articulate what Cloud actually is and how the various services that make up Cloud can be differentiated. Traditional thinking (if one can have traditional thinking in a space as young as […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, CloudComputing, CloudU, netsuite, openstack, San Francisco, software as a service, structure 2010, vmware, werner vogels | 5 Responses

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