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Salesforce.com Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Model Metrics. Salesforce Acquires Social And Mobile Cloud Computing Consultancy Model Metrics. Salesforce.com has announced the acquisition of cloud computing services startup Model Metrics. Financial terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2011, have not been disclosed. Model Metrics consulting firm that helps enterprise organizations accelerate the adoption of cloud computing.

Specifically, Model Metrics focuses on helping companies adopt mobile and call center technologies, social enterprise solutions, business processes and more. In fact, Model Metrics has completed 1,000+ Salesforce deployments for mid-sized and Fortune 1000 companies. The company also helps businesses create custom mobile solutions for iPad and Android. Founded in 2003 and based in Chicago, Model Metrics, which has raised $6.5 million in funding, has partnered with Salesforce, Amazon Web Services, Adobe, Apple, and Google. Salesforce says that the addition of Model Metrics will “empower partners to develop their social enterprise practice.” Salesforce Promotes EVP Of Marketing George Hu To COO. Enterprise CRM giant Salesforce.com is getting a COO today. The company is announcing that it is promoting George Hu to Chief Operating Officer. Hu previously held the title of Executive Vice President, Platform, Marketing, and Operations and will continue to report to Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff in his new role.

Hu joined Salesforce.com in 2002 and served as vice president of product marketing, senior vice president of applications, executive vice president of products, and chief marketing officer prior to joining the executive team in his most recent role. Hu also led Salesforce.com’s corporate development and investment strategy since 2009, including the acquisitions of Jigsaw, Heroku, and Radian6. Previously, Hu held product management and strategic consulting roles at North Point Communications and Boston Consulting Group.

Salesforce actually didn’t have a COO previously, so Hu isn’t filling anyone else’s shoes. Cloud Storage Platform Box.net Raises $50 Million From Salesforce And Others. Cloud storage platform Box.net has raised a whopping $50 million in new funding with participation from CRM giant Salesforce.com. Past investors also participated in the round, as well as new ‘strategic partners’, who will be revealed soon. Box’s past investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Emergence Capital Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Scale Venture Partners and U.S. Venture Partners. This brings Box’s total funding to $128 million.

Box, which has 7 million users and stores over 300 million documents, is a cloud storage platform for the enterprise that comes with collaboration, social and mobile functionality. Box has evolved into more than just a fils storage platform, and has become a full-fledged collaborative application where businesses can actually communicate about document updates, sync files remotely, and even add features from Salesforce, Google Apps, NetSuite, Yammer and others. Check out our video with Levie chatting about the new round below. Social Enterprise Customer Showcase - Salesforce. Marc Benioff's Five Leadership Secrets. Hiring Like It's 1999. Michael De Frenza scans the crowd of 50 or so well-dressed professionals mingling near a bar at the W Hotel in San Francisco’s South of Market District. De Frenza, a recent transplant to the Bay Area, is here in search not of a date—but of a job. In the five weeks since De Frenza, 34, returned to the area after a two-year stint in Toronto, he has received five offers.

“I’m taking my time trying to find the right fit,” he says. I Love Rewards, which provides companies with services to motivate employees, arranges cocktail parties like this one every other week at the W Hotel to help it recruit 40 people by Sept. 30 for a new West Coast sales outpost. “Just in time for us arriving in San Francisco, the market has gotten extremely hot,” says Razor Suleman, chief executive of the company. The tech sector is fueling a job boom that stands in stark contrast to the malaise of the general job market.

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Product info. Salesforce.com ne possède que 3000 serveurs. [Photo : Bloomberg] Le géant de l’informatique en nuages Salesforce.com n’utiliserait que 3 000 serveurs. C’est du moins le chiffre lancé par Peter Coffee, directeur de la recherche pour la plateforme de l’entreprise, de passage à Montréal le 7 avril dernier. Valorisée à pas moins de 17,4 milliards dollars, l’entreprise ne dessert pas moins que 92 300 clients répartis un peu partout dans le monde.

Toutefois, pour évaluer le trafic qui afflue sur sa plateforme en ligne, il faut mentionner que, dans les faits, ce sont quelque trois millions de personnes qui l’utilisent, dans la mesure où plusieurs de ses clients comptent plusieurs employés. Les serveurs de Salesforce.com, dont l’application infonuagique de gestion des relations avec la clientèle et la plateforme de développement Force.com sont très populaires auprès des PME, sont ainsi un poste de dépense négligeable pour l’entreprise. Salesforce.