News

• Wall Street Beat: Software results temper bad news on PC front

  By Marc Ferranti | 25 February, 2012 03:26

  Disappointing earnings reports this week from Hewlett-Packard and Dell were offset by more encouraging results from software makers, confirming forecasts for general trends in IT spending this year.

• Moving into the future of Cloud, letting go of old ways

  By Rebecca Merrett | 14 February, 2012 11:00

  Businesses may need to let go of the old ways of doing things and start moving into the future of Cloud computing if they are to stay ahead of the game.

• Wall Street Beat: IPOs, M&A, chip news stir tech optimism

  By Marc Ferranti | 17 December, 2011 04:15

  Zynga's initial public offering Friday, a raft of acquisition announcements this week from IBM, Salesforce and others, and some upbeat reports on the chip and hardware sector are putting a positive spin on year-end news for the tech sector.

• Wall Street Beat: Tech lags in wake of mixed results

  By Marc Ferranti | 19 November, 2011 05:21

  Computer stocks sagged Friday morning in the wake of continuing economic worries and mixed financial news from hardware and software vendors this week.

• Dreamforce 2011 in pictures

  By Georgina Swan | 01 September, 2011 03:21

  Photos from the keynote event

• Salesforce.com set to build Australian data centre

  By Hamish Barwick | 11 May, 2011 11:31

  Cloud services provider, Salesforce.com, has confirmed reports that it is planning to build an Australian data centre.

• New community marketplace seeks cloud developers

  By Chris Kanaracus | 15 February, 2011 00:03

  Developers interested in coding projects for public cloud services have a new avenue to find work in the form of CloudSpokes, a community marketplace announced Monday by Appirio.

• Telstra uses Salesforce for crowd sourcing

  By Hamish Barwick | 11 November, 2010 11:26

  The use of the Salesforce Ideas internal forum has created more than 300 company initiatives for Telstra since it began using the application in March 2010.

• Salesforce launches Chatter Mobile as social media grows in enterprise

  By Chloe Herrick | 09 September, 2010 16:23

  In a sign of the growing influence of social media in the enterprise, Salesforce has launched Chatter Mobile, a mobile collaboration platform.

• Oracle takes aim at Salesforce with on-demand CRM update

  By Chris Kanaracus | 28 January, 2009 08:04

  Oracle on Tuesday stepped up its assault on rival Salesforce with a new version of its on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) application.

• In a down economy, SaaS revenues rise

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 16 January, 2009 07:16

  The economic downturn has been punishing to many IT vendors, but not software-as-a-service vendors. SaaS providers are seeing double-digit growth in their subscription revenue, according to a new study by Forrester Research Inc.

• Salesforce launches Service Cloud

  By Chris Kanaracus | 16 January, 2009 01:59

  Salesforce has repurposed the customer-service software acquired through its August 2008 purchase of InstraNet into a new offering called the Service Cloud, the company announced Thursday.