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September 17, 2012 Posted in Business 6 Comments

The Most Interesting DreamForce Rumor–Salesforce Acquires Box

By Ben Kepes

Imagine if Marc Benioff’s “leak” of the launch of their content collaboration tool ChatterBox at TechCrunch Disrupt last week was in fact a smoke screen and this week will see an announcement of an acquisition by salesforce of cloud content collaboration vendor Box. It’s actually not entirely out of the

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December 3, 2010 Posted in Business 4 Comments

A DreamForce 2010 Look Ahead

By Ben Kepes

Next week I’ll be heading (along with around 30000 of my closest friends) to San Francisco for the epicness that is DreamForce. It’s the first year I’ll be attending the event in person, having followed it remotely in its previous incarnations. In the next couple of days I ‘m going

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October 12, 2010 Posted in Business 6 Comments

NetSuite Announces SuiteSocial, Takes on Salesforce Chatter.

By Ben Kepes

The big news Over the past year I’ve been on something of a crusade to get NetSuite thinking about and acting upon social inside the enterprise. Every time I run into CEO and President Zach Nelson, my standard question is an enquiry into a response to Salesforce’s Chatter product. At

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September 23, 2010 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Once the BitchSlapping is Over – On Oracle and Salesforce

By Ben Kepes

Oracle Open World was a depressingly staid affair (or so it seemed from  distance) with the one exception being the schoolyard antics of Larry Ellison and salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. For those who missed it (and how could you?) some historical back and forth is in the video below. Call

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June 22, 2010 Posted in enterprise, Product reviews 4 Comments

Salesforce Chatter goes into GA. No Hiding Now Marc!

By Ben Kepes

I’ve always been partly in awe and partly dubious about the way Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff gives… “aspirational” product announcements. On one level, it’s great to get people thinking and envisioning a future, while on another vaporware is just that – unobtainable and frustrating. Just look at his quote about Chatter: Salesforce Chatter is the [...]

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August 8, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 1 Comment

In-depth with Benioff

By Ben Kepes

A hat tip to Daniel for pointing out that Sarah Lacy got to interview Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff – you ca tell that Sarah was please as punch to have got Benioff, she even dragged out her ladylike dress, the pearls and had her hair done for the day! It’s

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