When Celio Corporation received a 2008 CES Innovations Award this past November, the news was out that Ceilo was up to something cool. Kirt Bailey, CEO of Celio Corporation — and former Intel Capital director involved with mobility markets, sat down with Brad Baldwin of

Mark Marshall, Managing Director of The Accend Group, provides outsourced accounting services and the financial decision making on a virtual model. Like Salesforce.com, Marshall’s organization “rents” the CFO and general accounting services on a monthly basis. One of the top sources for acquiring new customers is venture capitals. VCs ...

In this final episode from Force.com’s Chalk Talk meet Natan Zaidenweber (Founder and CEO, StakeWare). StakeWare has also partnered with Salesforce.com in order to bring multi-tenant architecture and corporate social awareness together. Managing risk with software applications is the challenge StakeWare is embracing with On-Demand.

Will ...

Is Flash remaining a secure choice for web service? Will AIR and multi-tenant architecture from Salesforce.com become the industry standard for customer relationship management?

In the first episode of Force.com’s Chalk Talk, Adam Gross presented Salesforce.com’s demo and in part two he introduces James Ward (Technical Evangelist) from ...

Adam Gross (Vice President of Developer Marketing, Salesforce.com) presents an interactive technical conversation involving both SaaS and platform application development technologies as well as the partnerships with Adobe and StakeWare.

On-Demand data bases, infrastructure, integration, developer priorities and resource management all get attention in this setting hosted from ...

In part two of the Dreamforce07 keynote, Robert Thurman and George Lucas open their conversation up to personal insights and philosophies around education, survival and knowledge.

As part of an ecosystem, what roles will innovation and technology take on? As populations grow and diversity increases globally, will the ...

George Lucas brought news of Edutopia.org and the George Lucas Educational Foundation to Dreamforce07, where he spoke with Robert Thurman about his background and educational experience before “Star Wars.”

What is missing in the education system that has created the need for advertising and marketing on order to ...

Marc Benioff, founder, chairman & CEO of salesforce.com, kicks off Dreamforce ‘07, with exciting product, platform, and customer announcements you won’t want to miss. Witness as salesforce.com unveils the next generation of on demand and learn what that means for your success. See how community-driven models-arising from the Internet-inspire ...

Marc Benioff, founder, chairman & CEO of salesforce.com, kicks off Dreamforce ‘07, with exciting product, platform, and customer announcements you won’t want to miss. Witness as salesforce.com unveils the next generation of on demand and learn what that means for your success. See how community-driven models–arising from the Internet–inspire ...

Salesforce has always been a powerful platform for creating mashups, and the latest platform features make it more capable than ever. This session offers an introduction to some of the more popular Web APIs and shows how they can be leveraged inside your apps. Presentations include sample code demonstrating these ...

Service on demand, name changes, metadata, customer satisfaction, monetizing strategies and multi-tenant data architecture options are all addressed during this question-and-answer session from the Dreamforce07 conference in San Francisco.

Speakers from Salesforce.com include Marc Benioff, chairman & CEO; Parker Harris, executive vice president; George Hu, chief marketing officer and ...

Nick Carr is an acclaimed business writer and speaker whose work centers on strategy, innovation, and technology. His 2004 book “Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage,” published by Harvard Business School Press, set off a worldwide debate about the role of computers in business. Nick ...

From the 2007 Office 2.0 Conference, Sean Wise moderates a panel consisting of Sam Angus (partner, Fenwick & West), Jeff Clavier (managing director, SoftTech VC), Jai Das (investment partner, SAP Ventures), M.R. Rangaswami (founder, Sand Hill Group) and Gordon Ritter (general partner, Emergence ...

John Chambers, the CEO of Cisco Systems, gave a keynote at Saleforce.com’s user conference. He spoke about the growing use and importance of Internet video in helping companies collaborate on projects and communicate with staff and customers. Internet video will be a key driving force fueling the expansion of ...

Etelos is building a suite of office applications that bring salesforce productivity and marketing applications to your browser. They call it CRM for Google and Danny Kolke, CEO of Etelos, demonstrates it for the camera.

Rohit Agarwal is the founder and CEO of techTribe Networks, a software company that enables current and future professionals to connect with others to enhance their careers.

Rohit recently co-authored a book along with Patricia Brown, titled, How Innovators Connect.

“How Innovators Connect” is an attempt to showcase innovation ...

Suzanne DiBianca, executive director of the Salesforce Foundation, talks about the innovative practices and principles of integrated corporate philanthropy evangelized in a new book, “The Business of Changing the World.” The book is co-authored by Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, Steve Case, founder of America Online and a galaxy of ...

Suzanne DiBianca is the executive director of the Salesforce Foundation. Here, she talks about how she and Salesforce.com Founder Marc Benioff worked together to create a new model of “integrated philanthropy.” Their so-called “one-one-one model” seeks to leverage each of the three core components of the company — employee ...

If there is one networking event where people of the Indus or South Asian region congregate to network and connect, it is the The Indus Entrepreneur’s annual event: TiECon. Over the years, TiECon has evolved to become an important networking event for technologists, investors and entrepreneurs from around the ...

Hosted applications like Salesforce.com and Microsoft Live have gotten a lot of press lately. Do they live up to the hype and deliver benefits that make outsourcing the storage of critical business data a smart choice? Success Magazine’s Web Editor, Andrea Mondello, discusses the benefits and pitfalls of popular hosted ...

Salesforce.com Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff talks about Google Apps.

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When Frank Russell founded GeoLearning ten years ago, the landscape for delivering corporate training materials was quite different from what it is today. As the network became more and more vital for business, and as software-as-a-service began to mature, Frank saw GeoLearning’s business grow and change in dramatic ways. In this podcast Frank relates his experience as CEO of GeoLearning, and talks about how SaaS plays a vital role in their success.

Timothy Chou, author and entrepreneur, is the latest guest in this series of discussions with thought leaders, presented by WebEx. Chou was the president of Oracle’s On-Demand business from 1999 to 2005, the author of the book The End of Software, and he remains an influential figure in ...

This fourth in the series of podcasts from WebEx features a conversation with Bill Appleton, chief technical officer and founder of Dream Factory. His background as a developer gives him unique insights into the world of on-demand software, and he shares those insights in this discussion.