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In Case You Needed Reminding, Social Enterprise Software Is Going to Be Big

Just in case today’s launch of Chatter by Salesforce.com wasn’t enough, the fine folks at Jive Software would like to remind you again how important social enterprise software is going to be, and they...

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Seesmic Raises $4 Million in Funding From Salesforce.com

In an interesting social enterprise move, popular social networking collaboration tool Seesmic is taking a $4 million investment from Salesforce.com, as well as from Softbank. The San Francisco-based...

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Salesforce.com Buys Manymoon for Between $25 Million and $35 Million

Salesforce.com has bought Manymoon, the social productivity start-up. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed, but one source put the sale at between $25 million and $35 million. Manymoon makes...

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Social Enterprise Apps Are Popular, and So Is Attacking Chatter

Get out your scorecards. There’s yet another social enterprise play to keep track of. And like all the others, it’s being actively marketed as an alternative to Chatter.com, the social enterprise app...

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Seven Questions for Salesforce.com's Parker Harris

Last week I took advantage of the fact that I was in San Francisco for Hewlett-Packard’s big summit meeting, and stopped by the offices of Salesforce.com. There I met up with Parker Harris, executive...

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Seven Questions for Jeff Dyer, Co-Author of The Innovator's DNA

A perennial question that companies struggle with is how to generate new and innovative ideas that can lead to growth. We can all list examples of companies that do this well, yet every company is...

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Yammer Tweaks Salesforce in Friends With Benefits Campaign -- Make That...

They haven’t always been friends. In fact, relations between them have been quite testy at times. But the social enterprise software outfit Yammer is having a little promotional fun, now that its...

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Marc Benioff Is All Over This Social Enterprise Thing

If you’ve been paying any attention to Salesforce, it’s probably not a news flash that CEO Marc Benioff’s opening keynote address at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco today is going to be very...

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Seven Questions for Aaron Levie, CEO of Box.net

Box.net, the enterprise cloud data-sharing service, is on a roll. Today it launched a service that lets Box customers synchronize their data across multiple computers — Macs and PCs. And word also...

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Yammer's New Sales VP Comes From Salesforce.com

Social enterprise software player Yammer named David Obrand as its vice president for global sales. What makes it all the more interesting is where Obrand last worked: Salesforce.com, the company...

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Former Sun CEO Schwartz Joins Board of Moxie Software

Jonathan Schwartz, a former CEO of Sun Microsystems — he saw it through its acquisition last year by the software giant Oracle — is joining the board of directors of Moxie Software, a player in the...

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Yammer Now Works With Box.net and Five Other Cloud Services

Yammer, the social enterprise and collaboration outfit once described simply as “Twitter for the office,” just got a lot more powerful. Today the company announced integrations with a half-dozen...

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Salesforce Is Growing, But Slower Than Analysts Thought It Would

Shares of cloud software outfit Salesforce.com were pounded today, first during the regular session and then in after-hours trading, as the company reported results that disappointed analysts on many...

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Marc Benioff Brings His Social Cloud Message to New York

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff will be delivering one of his keynote speeches at a company event in New York today. The talk will probably be a variation on the social enterprise talk he’s been giving...

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Newly Public Jive Beats the Street

Social enterprise software player Jive Software, whose IPO in December capped an eventful year for tech offerings, reported its first quarterly results as a public company today, and they weren’t half...

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Yammer Adds SAP to the List of Business Software It Supports

Social enterprise start-up Yammer will announce today that its service now works with software giant SAP’s main software for running businesses. The move is the latest by Yammer to integrate with other...

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Collaboration Start-Up Atlassian Acquires HipChat

Amid the current craze for enterprise collaboration software, somehow Atlassian had escaped my attention. Ten years old, based in Sydney and San Francisco, backed by a $60 million investment from Accel...

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Yammer Makes Its First Acquisition: OneDrum

A little more than a month ago, the social enterprise and collaboration start-up Yammer raised an impressive $85 million funding round at an implied valuation somewhere in the neighborhood of $1...

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Why the Rumored Microsoft Deal for Yammer Rings True

For awhile now, rumors have been in the water that Microsoft was interested in buying out the social enterprise software company Yammer. A report in Bloomberg News, plus a tweet about a conversation...

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Salesforce Launches Communities on Same Day Yammer Launches a Big Upgrade

Salesforce.com seems to be taking what it has learned from operating Chatter and applying it elsewhere, with Salesforce Communities, a new service it announced today. The idea is to let companies...

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Why Okta CEO Todd McKinnon Likes Having Salesforce.com as a Competitor

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff is a few hours away from taking the stage at his company’s huge Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, which appears to have taken over the city. Last night, I happened...

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Salesforce CEO Benioff Has Lots of New Things to Launch Today

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff will soon take the stage at his company’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. His remarks, and the company’s announcements, will essentially set the table for the...

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Microsoft Talks About Its Plans for Yammer: Socialize Everything

When it acquired Yammer over the summer for $1.2 billion, Microsoft essentially admitted that it had lost any edge it might have once had in the social enterprise and collaboration software space....

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CipherCloud Lands $30 Million From Andreessen Horowitz

One of the biggest ongoing concerns in the adoption of cloud computing options by large enterprises is security. When you get right down to it, moving data to a cloud application largely means putting...

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Tomfoolery's Anchor App Is About Workplace Social, Not Productivity

“The rhetoric we’ve been fed is: This is business, not personal. No. It’s all personal. I spend more time with these people than my husband or kids,” said Kakul Srivastava, the CEO of Tomfoolery and...

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