Enterprises embracing Salesforce's Chatter

BANGALORE, INDIA: Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing company, announced today that more than 50 customers in Asia Pacific are now experiencing Salesforce Chatter as part of the company’s private beta program.

Salesforce Chatter is a social enterprise collaboration solution with profiles, status updates and real-time feeds for an organization’s people, applications and data - accelerating the shift to the next cloud computing paradigm, Cloud 2, said a press release.

"We are on the precipice of a major shift in our industry,” said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com.

“ The first generation of cloud computing leveraged new technologies to deliver software that is low cost, fast, and easy to use on the desktop. We are now in the era of Cloud 2, where use of social networking has surpassed e-mail, use of Facebook has outpaced search, and new mobile devices like the iPad have created entirely new ways to interact with information,” he added.

Benioff further added that "The end of legacy collaboration software like Microsoft SharePoint and IBM Lotus Notes is here. Salesforce Chatter changes the game for collaboration in the enterprise - all without the cost and complexity of software.”

Salesforce.com customers in the private beta are also able to tap into “anytime, anywhere” access with Chatter's real-time feeds via BlackBerry or iPhone mobile devices.

When Chatter becomes generally available later this year, all of salesforce.com’s more than 77,300 customers can instantly deploy its social, collaborative and real-time capabilities as part of their existing Salesforce CRM or custom Force.com applications, said the release.