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Social Responsibility's Strategic Benefits
December 15, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Ed Granger-Happ, CIO of Save the Children, for a discussion of how creating an organization that is socially responsible improves staffing, retention, leadership development and overall corporate health.
Working With and Communicating to Your Board of Directors
January 13, 2009, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM US/Eastern (GMT-5)
CIO panelists who will share tips and experiences working with their boards: Twila Day of SYSCO; Jeff O'Hare, West Corp.; Marc West, formerly with H&R Block.
IT's Role in Growing Mid-Market Companies
January 14, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET (GMT-5)
Mid-market Council members will share their companies' stories and challenges in driving or coping with growth. Panelists represent Veterinary Pet Insurance, Medicis Pharmaceutical, and Intrax Cultural Exchange.
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October 01, 2007 — IDG News Service (Paris Bureau) — Salesforce.com has launched a US$25 million investment fund to encourage the development of new applications using its Force.com hosted development platform.
The fund, created with investment companies Bay Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners, will make investments of $500,000 or more in start-up companies using Force.com, the companies announced Monday.
Salesforce.com refers to Force.com as its "platform as a service." It allows companies to build add-ons to Salesforce.com's hosted CRM (customer relationship management) software, or entirely new hosted applications, using pre-built database, logic and workflow services from Salesfore.com.
The goal is make it easier to build hosted applications by letting Salesforce.com provide the underlying infrastructure services.
Last month, Salesforce.com released a new part of Force.com called Visualforce, a tool for creating user interfaces in HTML, AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) or Adobe Systems' Flash.
The tool is valuable because it lets companies build applications that don't have to have the same look and feel as Salesforce.com's own applications, which wasn't possible before, commented analyst company Ovum.
Salesforce.com didn't say how much each company is contributing to the investment fund, only that they will invest about $25 million over three years. Salesforce.com will act in an advisory capacity, it said.
Bay Partners has already invested in companies that list their applications in Salesforce.com's AppExchange marketplace, including Eloqua, which makes demand generation software, and Xactly, which develops sales management software.
Other stories by James Niccolai Copyright 2006 IDG News Service, International Data Group Inc. All rights reserved.
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