CRM giant Salesforce.com kicked off its annual Dreamforce user conference yesterday, and as expected, the show is spawning numerous interesting SaaS announcements. For starters, ebizQ has posted the most interesting new product announcements. Have a look at the following:
- Informatica Integrates Data-as-a-Service for Salesforce Customers
- Business Objects Offers BI SaaS
- Fujitsu Consulting Acquires OKERE for CRM SaaS
- Mulesource to Offer Integration-as-a-Service
- Boomi On Demand Rolls Out on Salesforce.com's AppExchange
IT analyst Guy Creese of the Burton Group posted a short report on his blog commenting on some interesting apps, including Business Objects and SpringCM. He also makes the observation that another advantage of SaaS in addition to the most frequently cited pay-as-you-go model and browser access is "being able to buy pre-built complementary applications offering functionality that used to demand hiring a systems integrator."
Giving some perspective on the company's current thinking, Salesforce.com VP Adam Gross spoke with Darryl K. Taft at eWeek about the conference and had some things to say about industry resistance to multitenancy as well as Microsoft's resistance to the SaaS model. He also responded to criticism of the Apex language. More here.
Leave a comment