Salesforce.com on Monday announced its acquisition of Model Metrics, a company that provides mobile and social cloud consulting services. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. The deal will “add mobile and social expertise” to Salesforce’s current offerings, the company says. Read More »
Collaboration
Xobni, a popular productivity add-on for Outlook that automatically displays additional information about email contacts, has announced that it is making available “gadgets,” third-party additions to Xobni that will let well-known collaboration tools like Yammer, Chatter and Dropbox become an integral part of the Outlook interface. Read More »
Salesforce bought social productivity app maker Manymoon today in another push toward social collaboration. The acquisition gives Salesforce the top app in Google’s Apps Marketplace and a popular product for businesses looking to enhance existing tools for better collaboration and sharing. Read More »
Salesforce has made its Facebook-like enterprise collaboration app, Chatter, generally available at Chatter.com. The app was previously only available to Salesforce CRM and Force.com customers, but now anyone can get a free account simply by signing up using their company email address. Read More »
Cloud CRM provider Salesforce has announced the acquisition of web conferencing and meeting tools provider Dimdim. Salesforce says that it will use Dimdim’s presence and on-demand meeting and collaboration technologies and development team to add new real-time communication capabilities to its Chatter collaboration platform. Read More »
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff said embracing social media and collaboration can obliterate hierarchies and transform companies. And he should know. It’s already happening inside Salesforce with his enterprise social networking product Chatter. Benioff spoke at the GigaOM Net:Work conference about the company’s shift to social. Read More »
The basic idea of Gist is to harness information, filtered for relevance, based on your connections. So who you know informs the data that is intelligently presented to you in an email digest, on a dashboard on the Gist website and via iPhone or Android device. Read More »
Salesforce.com today announced it will be releasing a mobile client for Chatter, its enterprise social networking service, this fall. Salesforce knows that for social applications — and even all enterprise applications — mobile is becoming increasingly important as workers expect to do business on the go. Read More »
Shoeboxed has announced the availability of a connector for Salesforce. The connector eliminates the need to enter contact data from business cards into Salesforce; after Shoeboxed scans and organizes business cards, Salesforce users will be able to import the contact data into their accounts as leads. Read More »
Online invoicing service FreshBooks today announced a new integration with Salesforce, enabling Salesforce users to automatically bill through FreshBooks without leaving the Saleforce interface. The integration is made possible through the use of a third-party app, DataSynch OnDemand for FreshBooks & Salesforce by Pervasive Software. Read More »
One of the more exciting services I’ve had the chance to use over the past year is Gist, a personal relationship manager / news aggregator. In my review from last October,… Read More »
