Harrah's Bets Big On Salesforce.com Cloud

InformationWeek
Harrah's, which operates numerous high-profile Las Vegas casinos, including Caesar's Palace and The Rio, as well as Harrah's branded properties, will shift applications for managing room reservations, air travel programs, and player relations to Salesforce's Web-based Force.com hosted app service.

Marc Benioff and Parker Harris, of Salesforce.com, demo Appirio's work at Harrah's during the Dreamforce 2008 opening keynote.

System Integrators: A Firsthand, Face-toFace View on the State of SaaS

SIIA On-Demand
Video: Chris Barbin, CEO of Appirio, participates in a round table discussion on professional services and SaaS at SIIA On-Demand

It's Different Developing in the Cloud

ZDNet
"One of the hidden secrets of platform-as-a-service is how dramatically it changes the development process. Instead of expending energies on building and managing infrastructure, developers can concentrate on the end result, and they can get there a lot faster because of the collaboration and resource sharing the cloud platform allows." A core belief at Appirio - now "validated" by Microsoft.

Dreamforce 08 Video: New Applications Revealed

ZDNet

Salesforce.com Empowers Developers

eWeek
"With several announcements from its annual Dreamforce user conference, Salesforce.com provides gems to benefit developers. Among them are a new integrated development environment for Salesforce CRM Winter '09 and a new Force.com Sites offering."

Dreamforce: Salesforce.com adds Facebook, Amazon and Neil Young

VentureBeat
Anthony Ha of VentureBeat covers Dreamforce's opening keynote, and highlights the Facebook and Amazon news. Appirio's Facebook application Jobs4MyFriends is featured.

Force.com for Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services Blog
Amazon Web Services provides examples of what is possible with the new Amazon Web Services Toolkit for Force.com - highlighting Appirio's Cloud Storage for Salesforce.com.

Facebook Application - MyFriends@Work

FacebookSpace
"MyFriends@Work is an excellent facebook application which alerts you when your friends do business with your company. It connects with salesforce.com and if you have an account there you can setup and enjoy this service."

SaaS Nets Another Venture Vote

AlwaysOn
Even though times are tough, SaaS services firms thrive: "If Maxplore takes off as Appirio has...the success may lead to more efforts from Salesforce.com to be a SaaS fairy godmother for younger firms."