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Salesforce.com Core Product Growth Might Be Slowing

The growth of Salesforce.com’s (CRM) bread-and-butter product may be slowing faster than anyone thought. That’s the contention of Wedbush Securities analyst Steve Koenig after examining a first-ever revenue breakdown of the company’s top product segments included in a public filing on May 30. Salesforce is the leading provider of customer relationship management software, which helps companies better manage their work with customers and partners.

Infor Seen Emerging As Tough Rival To Oracle And SAP

Business software leaders Oracle and SAP face a number of fast-growing young rivals, but privately held Infor deserves a prominent place among the competition. While the two enterprise software leaders face companies such as Tableau Software (DATA), Salesforce.com (CRM) and Workday (WDAY), analysts say that Infor has emerged as another big rival. Though fairly low-profile, Infor has $3 billion in annual revenue and 70,000 customers worldwide,

Microsoft, Salesforce.com link their cloud offerings

Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella continued to execute his “mobile first, cloud first” strategy Thursday, signing a deal with enterprise software-as-a-service powerhouse Salesforce.com. The two companies announced a strategic partnership late Thursday to create offerings that connect Salesforce.com ‘s (CRM) customer relationship management apps and platform to Microsoft (MSFT) Office and Windows. Terms weren’t disclosed. “We are excited to partner with Salesforce.com and help customers thrive in a mobile and cloud-first world,” Nadella said in a statement . “Working together we’ll deliver new solutions that connect the customer insights of Salesforce to the cloud productivity of Office 365, the cloud platform of Azure and the mobility of Windows, so our customers can do more.” Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff said the partnership is about “building bridges that allow customers to be more productive.” The companies announced a host of product tie-ups. They include Salesforce for Office 365, Salesforce1 for Windows and Windows Phone, and a new Salesforce app for Outlook.