Analysis: Salesforce.com's dreams of conquest

Sooraj Shah
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Is the SaaS giant planning to stab some of its partners in the back office? Sooraj Shah weighs up the evidence from the company's recent Dreamforce conference

At Salesforce.com's recent Dreamforce 2012 conference, CEO Marc Benioff said that his company would "put off for as long as possible" the introduction of back-office applications to go with its cor...

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