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Intuit Copies Salesforce’s AppExchange

Posted on October 10, 2008 by lkao

It took me a while to post this, but last month, Intuit announced its own version of Salesforce.com’s AppExchange, but for its Quickbase set of on-demand applications for small businesses.

I kicked around with Quickbase many years ago – the concept has been around for a while, before the AppExchange even launched. I found it hard back then to make some basic entity relationships between objects work…but back then I was trying to replicate SFA with add-on modules, and my expectations and familiarity with Salesforce had spilled over to my Quickbase expectations.

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Salesforce.com Added to S & P 500 Index

Posted on September 9, 2008 by lkao

Bloomberg and other news sites are reporting that with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac yanked from the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, one of the two replacement companies is our beloved Salesforce.com (CRM).

Bloomberg writes,

“The addition of a company to the S&P 500 may support its stock price as money managers tracking the index purchase the shares.”

Huh? Basically, this is good for Salesforce.com, and it’s an honor. Read up on the S&P 500 over at Wikipedia.

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Force.com Checkout – Coming Soon!

Posted on September 8, 2008 by lkao

Looks like Salesforce.com’s Force.com Checkout is finally debuting later this month, on September 22.

I don’t have any preview images of it yet, but the hope is that an online billing and ordering system can help the company more cost effectively manage the tons of customers that want to order from an increasingly long selection of a la carte add-on items.

In a note sent out to administrators, we’re told:

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Salesforce.com for Non-Profits: Overview

Posted on June 9, 2008 by lkao

Thanks go out to Steve Andersen at ONE/Northwest, a consulting firm that does a lot of work with nonprofits, for his 1-page summary for non-profits researching Salesforce for their organization.

Is Salesforce.com right for your Nonprofit?

This document is meant to be a starting point for nonprofits in making their decision whether Salesforce.com is a good choice for their organization. It will give some introduction to what Salesforce.com does, and the benefits and risks involved in using it.

What is Salesforce.com?

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