Cloud Computing Watch.com » Software http://www.cloudcomputingwatch.com Blogging the Cloud as it takes shape Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:41:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Salesforce.com Summary http://www.cloudcomputingwatch.com/salesforcecom-summary/ http://www.cloudcomputingwatch.com/salesforcecom-summary/#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:55:46 +0000 David Chidester http://www.cloudcomputingwatch.com/?p=70 Salesforce.com

Salesforce.com

Salesforce.com was the early leader in the Software as a Service arena back in 1999. The founders felt traditional software development would eventually be replaced with web based services.

Salesforce.com’s flagship product is a web-based CRM (Customer Relationship Management) solution. As of September 2007, they had over 900,000 subscribers and supported 100-million customer transactions in one day.

In 2007 Salesforce.com launched Force.com, a Platform-As-A-Service, as the a building block platform for additional web based software services.

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The service is marketed for Business, School and Home use. Key features include:

    • Access your documents from almost anywhere
      Save over 1,000 Microsoft Office documents in one online place
      Open and save directly from Word, Excel, and Powerpoint
      Control who sees and edits files; password-protected sharing

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Currently there are two versions of the Apps software. The Free Standard Edition and the $50/User Premier Edition. The main difference between the two versions is security and support.

Google Apps includes the following software:

  • Gmail
  • Google Calendar
  • Google Chat
  • Google Docs – Word Processing
  • Google Docs – Spreadsheets
  • Google Docs – Presentations
  • Google Video
  • Google Sites

Each of these applications are hosted by Google and user access is maintained in a central web-based control admin.

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