Microsoft hikes Dynamics 365 prices by around ten percent or more First rise in five years varies between 9.26 and 16.67 percent for different products – for no apparent reason SaaS15 Apr 2024 | 15
It's a matter of when, not if, customers move to the cloud, SAP tells investors That's news to some as analysts claim on-prem will be here for the foreseeable CxO21 Apr 2023 | 12
Salesforce latest to sprinkle ChatGPT on itself, will ask language models to write code Collaboration with OpenAI tech also threatens AI-generated sales emails, Slack messages, customer Q&As SaaS07 Mar 2023 | 8
Power behind throne to depart as SAP enters a new era Board chairman Hasso Plattner lines up successor to take ERP giant into uncharted territory Databases28 Feb 2023 | 6
Salesforce under investor pressure to dump more staff Promised 10,000 cull unlikely to be enough to satisfy gaggle of activist investors SaaS27 Feb 2023 | 6
Salesforce refreshes board as activist investors circle Slack said to be worth fraction of price paid, new hires not as productive amid downturn SaaS30 Jan 2023 | 6
SAP culls 3,000 jobs – and its results weren't even that bad CRM and industry solutions among biz units targeted, analyst says cuts could be worse Software26 Jan 2023 | 4
Quickest way to save with Oracle? Get off Unlimited Licensing Agreements, says pundit They're not the meal deal they might seem to be, claims audit expert Databases16 Jan 2023 | 21
Salesforce to chop 10% of workforce in $1.4 billion restructuring blueprint CRM specialist to 'reduce operating costs, improve operating margins' as pandemic catches up with tech industry SaaS04 Jan 2023 | 6
Salesforce lets Genie out of the bottle Integration tooling might work for those with multiple installs, but check the budget first – analyst SaaS21 Sep 2022 | 1
Deluge of of entries to Spamhaus blocklists includes 'various household names' Nastymail tracking service blames sloppy sending practices for swelling lists of dangerous mailers Security18 Aug 2022 | 115
Microsoft CRM tool to pull sales data from email, Teams calls, Office 365 Out-of-the-box integration with Salesforce and Dynamics: SAP, Oracle CRM customers must wait Applications16 Jun 2022 | 5
Salesforce touts Google Ads, ecommerce, social media integration for Customer 360 Meanwhile, NFT Cloud pilot will allow companies to mint, manage, and sell the controversial web tokens SaaS09 Jun 2022 | 1
Salesforce shrugs off economic uncertainty with upbeat Q1 results CEO admits integration of mega-mergers remains an ongoing project Applications01 Jun 2022 |
Salesforce staff back an end to its relationship with NRA Texas school shooting should prompt a rethink in commercial ties with powerful gun-lobby group, workers urge management SaaS30 May 2022 | 134
ASUS recalls motherboards that flame out thanks to backwards capacitors Z690 Hero motherboards recalled because batch is borked, design itself is fine Personal Tech04 Jan 2022 | 82
Need a new CEO, Salesforce? Have two – Bret Taylor and Marc Benioff to share the job Restores twin CEO structure that ended in 2020, no indication this has deeper meaning Software01 Dec 2021 |
India seeks locally developed open source CRM and ERP for government users #FOSS4GOV challenge will fund and mentor devs and startups to create govtech code Software23 Apr 2021 | 4
UK housing association Places for People hands £21m to Salesforce to look after CRM and job scheduling Tender loving care SaaS15 May 2020 | 6
Oracle's cloud to net sweet customers as NetSuite sinks ever deeper into the fold CEO Evan Goldberg on Big Red migration and the Suite smell of Success Software28 Oct 2019 | 2
Salesforce cloud glitch blurted customer data at unauthorised users Put your minds at REST ... there's no 'evidence of malicious behavior' SaaS06 Aug 2018 | 4
Microsoft slows Dynamics 365 update cadence Twice-annual tweaks is slower than Salesforce and Oracle, faster than other SaaS rivals Software09 Jul 2018 | 3
SAP cofounder admits: Biz goofed on branding, confused customers, depressed staff 'All these names were changing faster than I could memorise' Software06 Jun 2018 | 25
SAP hopes to blow the doors off Salesforce with a block of C/4HANA It's war for biz customers as ERP king eyes up CRM lands Software05 Jun 2018 | 20
Oracle-botherer Rimini Street cuddles up to Salesforce Just as the $50m returned from Big Red court battles lifts profits Software11 May 2018 | 2
Boring as she goes at Sage? Oh no, no, no! Shares slide as sales slip below forecasts Wake up accountants! Sage has ops issues On-Prem13 Apr 2018 | 19
Researchers slap SAP CRM with vuln combo for massive damage Directory traversal + log injection = I can see your privates Security15 Mar 2018 |
Salesforce courts the great un-CRMed with 'Essentials' And buries past flops as it pitches SaaS to slay Outlook and Excel for US$25 a month Software14 Mar 2018 | 7
Salesforce cracked $10bn in sales for FY'18, but growth slowed CFO's biggest hassle is keeping up with sales commissions now that it's back in black On-Prem01 Mar 2018 |
SAP slurps up CRM biz Callidus for $2.4bn, pants: Look, cloud bookings are up! *Cough* Bulk of sales still licences and support *cough* Software30 Jan 2018 | 1
New BFFs Salesforce and Google link arms, er, CRMs with G Suite Silicon Valley bigwigs giggle to themselves, thumb their noses at Redmond SaaS08 Nov 2017 | 1
Salesforce CEO: We're doing great because everyone else in CRM sucks Loafing competitors are 'horrible,' says Benioff On-Prem23 Aug 2017 | 19
LinkedIn starts piping sales data to Salesforce and Dynamics Remember when Marc Benioff said Microsoft buying LinkedIn was dangerous? Software23 Mar 2017 | 7
Salesforce: Brex-pensive mistake, guys. Your little referendum dented our brilliant results CEO shoots for $10bn revs, though 2017 will start slowly On-Prem01 Mar 2017 | 3
Stung by Dynamics 365 hike? Microsoft has a deal for you... just don't expect much Transitional agreements rolled for CRM subscribers Software06 Dec 2016 | 19
EasyJet rides digital and mobile on Brexit currency pressure Incubator partnership unveiled Legal15 Nov 2016 |
Salesforce Einstein: Enterprise AI breakthrough, or CRM Clippy? Cloud house sets lofty goals for deep learning layer SaaS18 Sep 2016 | 3
Microsoft and Salesforce strike up Lightning-Outlook love More, more, more - how do you like it? Software28 Jun 2016 | 1
Salesforce slaps UK Enterprise customers with 40% price hike Meanwhile Americans enjoy a modest 20% price rise. Eh? Channel23 May 2016 | 21
Shareholder rage freezes Salesforce boss Marc Benioff's package Don't sweat, Marc: $33m/yr is still enough for a Pot Noodle and a cuppa Channel12 Apr 2016 | 15
Former Oracle man Block fills Salesforce's COO slot Ascending steadily into the fluffy white stuff Channel03 Feb 2016 |
PWC devours cloud consultancy Outbox Group You want Oracle? Microsoft? Saleforce? Boxes ticked Channel20 Jan 2016 |
Microsoft eats its Dynamics CRM young with Adxstudio buy Another day, another small deal to beef up Redmond’s portfolio Channel29 Sep 2015 | 2
Microsoft puts arm round Salesforce, pair skip gaily into the cloud Lightening CRM comes to Skype, OneNote, Office Graph and Delve Channel17 Sep 2015 | 10
Outsourcery shutters CRM practice... almost Keeps one man to man phones for existing punters, majority leave for QuantiQ Channel26 Aug 2015 | 1
Dynamics CRM biz gobble lets bosses play fantasy league ... at work ... using sales reps Donkey, meet carrot – and stick On-Prem03 Aug 2015 | 4
Never escape the boss again: Salesforce tracks down your best people any time, any place 'I don't care if you're on the can, answer your phone!' SaaS09 Mar 2015 | 13
SugarCRM sews up sweet deal to buy out junior upstart Stitch No figures mentioned, but they should make a thrilling yarn for investors On-Prem09 Mar 2015 | 2
Warm breeze of consolidation blows through Microsoft channel Gold minnow Core splashes 'seven' figures on CRM small biz Excitation Channel08 Sep 2014 |
Salesforce cloud goes titsup: Users face another long weekend Service disruption for some, performance degradation for others Channel05 Sep 2014 | 10
Rimini Street promises 'business as usual' after Oracle IP judgment Rimini's wrong on Oracle database licence, says judge Channel15 Aug 2014 | 14
Salesforce fires tractor beam at RelateIQ, hauls upstart into mothership If you can't beat it – pay $390m to EAT IT SaaS11 Jul 2014 |
Former Insight boss Fenton slurps Microsoft ERP channel biz Tectura UK forms backbone of buy and build strategy for industry vet Channel03 Jun 2014 | 1
Confirmed: Salesforce partners with 'evil empire' Microsoft Benioff and Nadella hold hands, weave MicroForce-SalesSoft tapestry Channel29 May 2014 | 9
Microsoft, Salesforce thump table in cloud tie-up talks – report 'Evil empire' changes its CEO, gets friendlier, it seems SaaS29 May 2014 |
With $100m+ buyout deal, Klout is suddenly popular again Lithium Technologies said to be acquiring social media startup Legal11 Feb 2014 | 3
SAP: Those growth targets we talked about? Give us another 2 years Cloud and maintenance OK - but no mention of actual new software Channel21 Jan 2014 |
Salesforce slaps Amazon, Google with glove: 'I'm THE FIRST $1bn-quarter enterprise cloud biz' But faint whiff of trouble pulls shares down On-Prem19 Nov 2013 | 8
SAP CEOs are like Highlanders - there can be only one "Our Bill's missing a Jim" says founder Software23 Jul 2013 | 2
SAP to make do with one CEO after two-headed hub halved Je ne regrette rien, says co-founder Hasso Plattner On-Prem22 Jul 2013 | 6
Salesforce buys into cloud marketing with ExactTarget Innovation through $2.5bn acquisition On-Prem04 Jun 2013 |