THINKstrategies, the Cloud Computing Showplace and Rising Tide Media today announced that Amy Anderson of IBM’s Cloud Computing Independent Software Vendor (ISV) and Developer Relations Partner Program has joined the list of Cloud Channel Summit keynote speakers, which already includes executives from Google Enterprise, Salesforce.com and Dell Boomi. The conference will focus on the emerging channel opportunities in the Cloud Computing market and will take place on Monday, Nov. 7, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif.

The Cloud Channel Summit will feature four keynote presentations – all focused on the evolving role of the channel in the Cloud as well as best practices for creating successful partnerships that lead to profitable business models for both Cloud vendors and their channel counterparts. Ms. Anderson’s presentation will focus on the opportunities for channel vendors to build their own Cloud solutions. The remaining three keynotes will include:

Focus.com released this infographic after last week's media spectacle surrounding Marc's presentation at the Oracle OpenWorld event.

The short of the story, if you missed it, is that Marc's talk was cancelled for no good reason. Salesforce.com reportedly paid Oracle $1M for the talk -- it was refunded. Mac and Larry have battled for years, but were once colleagues. Larry made an angel investment in Salesforce.com

Salesforce.com Inc. paid $50 million to acquire Assistly, a deal that allows the software firm to offer cloud services to small and emerging businesses.

Specifically, Assistly's customer-service desk allows the companies to set up and deliver social customer-service, as well as engage with customers in real time over a range of channels--including Facebook, Twitter and Web chats.

• Chatter Will Be Available to Workday Users, Making Nearly 2 Million Workers More Collaborative Across the Enterprise
• Custom Apps With Workday Data Feeds Can Be Built Quickly and Easily on Force.com
• Dreamforce to Showcase How Businesses Can Tap Into the Power of Social, Mobile and Open Technologies to Become Social Enterprises

Cloud computing companies salesforce.com  and Workday, Inc. have announced they will join forces to deliver workforce data to the social enterprise. Workday will deliver two new offerings that will extend data from Workday through salesforce.com's social, mobile and open technologies. The first will enable Workday data to be integrated into Salesforce Chatter -- salesforce.com's secure, private social network for businesses -- to securely share, collaborate and act upon workforce data in real-time. The other will allow customers to create custom applications with Workday data feeds on Force.com, salesforce.com's enterprise platform for building and running employee facing social apps.

Through the partnership, Workday will deliver:

• Salesforce Chatter and Workday Integration: Workday customers will be able to use Salesforce Chatter to securely share and take action on worker data that resides natively within Workday. This packaged integration pushes traditional Workday business processes, such as approval requests, into a real-time social stream. It also allows real-time enterprise-wide collaboration on topics that cross traditional departmental barriers, such as sales cycles, personnel, payroll, budgeting and spend on company initiatives.
• Custom Force.com App Leveraging Workday Data: Workday customers, partners and developers will be able to securely pull workforce data residing within their Workday application into Force.com to build custom apps.

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Companies combine technologies to create end-to-end order management, accounting and e-commerce solution

Linvio, Inc. and FinancialForce.com today announced the integration of Linvio’s PaymentConnect ecommerce framework with FinancialForce Accounting on Force.com, the cloud computing platform from salesforce.com. This combined solution creates the only native end-to-end order management, accounting and e-commerce solution for salesforce.com customers.

The FinancialForce application provides Salesforce users with comprehensive accounting functionality, while PaymentConnect adds support for managing e-payments, building payment-based workflow automation, and integrating services provided by PayPal, Google Checkout, Authorize.Net and RBS Worldpay. Combined, these products connect invoicing to online payment and record processed payments against entries in the general ledger. The PaymentConnect framework also includes modules from Linvio and various third-party ISVs that provide out-of-the box support for Force.com-integrated shopping carts, event management, software license management, and non-profit donation management.

1. Inoveer Party

When: Wednesday, December 8th, 6:30 PM PST

Where: XYZ Lounge in W Hotel 181 Third Street, San Francisco, less than a block away from the Moscone Center

If you are heading out to Dreamforce in San Francisco, CA, we would like to invite you to join Innoveer for cocktails, hors d'oeuvres and lively CRM discussions with Salesforce.com and Innoveer customers and consultants right after Bill Clinton's keynote address. Take advantage of the opportunity to win iPads, Kindles and 2-day Sales Cloud or Service Cloud Assessments.

Salesforce.com (CRM) is a cloud-based provider of customer relationship management services. Its applications can be customized and integrated with other software applications and are sold on a subscription basis. The company’s offerings have quickly become a ubiquitous sight at offices around the world, and shares have had no problem reflecting the situation. Now trading at nearly 250X TTM EPS, CRM is among the highest of the high-flyers in today’s market landscape.

Earnings: 3Q profit excluding one-time items of $21.1 million ($0.32/share) versus 3Q09 profit of $20.7 million ($0.28/share).

Revenue: Up 30% YOY to $429.1 million.

We love hippies. We love developers, too. And there are some developers coming into the scene who can craft code into apps that we never dreamed could be done.

Cloudstock is an event for developers and cloud providers that should attract some pretty talented folks. Scheduled for December 6, the event will be part of Dreamforce, the Salesforce.com annual event at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

The partner list shows the calibre of developers and providers who should be coming to this event. They include VMware, Paypal, Adobe, Amazon Web Services and Google. Some of the rising stars of the cloud world are also partners. Heroku, Apigee, Engine Yard and Twilio will all be there to talk with developers.

Here's Cloudstock's description of the event: