Chatter will become the primary interface for Salesforce.com, CEO Marc Benioff said today at the kickoff of a national tour for the company’s new “customer,” focus.
Benioff, speaking in Boston, provided his usual context for discussing Salesforce. He talked about the rise of mobile; how people are connecting and the rise of Twitter and Facebook.
Last week during TC Disrupt Salesforce’s CEO Marc Benioff referred to how the company was planning a Box-style competitor called Chatterbox. Today, the company has officially announced it.
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff said on stage today at Disrupt San Francisco 2012 that Yammer should not have sold to Microsoft and that he passed on buying them due to the conflicts with Chatter — its own activity stream product.
“You can do so much more when you are independent,” Benioff said.
At Salesforce’s annual conference, Dreamforce, the company announced a number of new improvements to its Sales and Service Clouds. First, the company is launching Salesforce Touch, which is powered by HTML5, and brings Salesforce to any mobile device, allowing reps to collaborate on sales deals on the go.
At TechCrunch Disrupt today, Salesforce CEO and founder Marc Benioff revealed the SaaS company’s next product—file storage. We don’t know much more, but the new product will be announced next week at Salesforce’s conference, Dreamforce.
Clearly, a file sharing product would compete against the likes of Box and a number of others.
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) is talking more and more about Chatter Communities for Partners — a secure social media platform that allows vendors, channel partners and distributors to drive business together. Hmmm… At first glance that resembles the ChannelEyes strategy. But not quite.
At TechCrunch Disrupt SF today, Mike Arrington talked to Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff about the future going forward for Salesforce, and how the company is taking on Asana, Box and Okta, and why the company didn’t end up buying Yammer.
On stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO and founder, only had good things to say about Facebook. “They have a great CEO, they have a great user base,” he said. But Michael Arrington tried to get him to say what Facebook could have done better.
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