Marc Benioff

SaaS security: McAfee's response

September 23, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS
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One question that gets raised time and again: Is SaaS secure? The answer depends on with whom you speak. My take is that any vendor that cannot answer a set of well defined questions is probably not going to meet the minimum requirements for me to recommend a service. Earlier today I attended a Salesforce.com [...]

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On The New Polymath…and an offer you can't refuse

June 25, 2010 Innovation

One of the underlying themes of this blog is the notion that those who read it want to change the world. They are a relatively small but important number who disrupt for the broader good. If you’re thinking about the upcoming holiday period and are a disruptor or perhaps you’re curious then I’d suggest getting [...]

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Facebook privacy issues. Where to for professionals?

May 24, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Having been buried in enterprise land the last couple of weeks, I’ve not been taking notice of the gathering storm around Facebook privacy. The last time I wrote about it, I said: Facebook’s increasingly bizarre notion of privacy coupled with the most recent security breach are forcing a number of my colleagues to rethink their [...]

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Getting off premise and Salesforce.com naivety

March 2, 2010 General

Getting off premise from on premise (excuse the mangled English) is not trivial for many businesses. But to hear Mark Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, that’s exactly what you might believe. It is a naive position to take worthy of being debunked. In a post on Business Cloud 9, the author says: “We have a UK [...]

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Facebook and business software

February 26, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

This week, TechCrunch gave some PR space to Marc Benioff, CEO Salesforce and what does he do? Asks the question: ‘Why isn’t all enterprise software like Facebook?‘ If you’ve spent any number of years in business software you’d know this is an uncomfortable question. Benioff claims that he starts his day in Facebook. Sheesh – [...]

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Kashflow hits 2,500: so what?

January 29, 2009 General

Amid much chest beating, Kashflow’s Duane Jackson announces the company has hit 2,500 paying customers. To be strictly correct, the company claims 2,400 end users and 120 practices. Good for them. But then I looked back. Kashflow was formed in early 2006 although it launched the product in mid-2005. Trawling back over past posts, I [...]

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