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By: Complete List of 2007 Web / Technology Acquisitions » The StartUp Blog at PartnerUp

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By: Koral acquired by Salesforce « The thing about useful stuff is

Koral acquired by Salesforce « The thing about useful stuff is — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:09:58 +0000

[...] Blimey, I was caught out by this one. Transpires I must have been asleep in March as Techcrunch today made reference to Salesforce’s acquisition of Koral, an online document collaboration [...]

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CRM 2.0: hoe Web 2.0 serious business wordt - Frankwatching — Tue, 15 May 2007 00:51:19 +0000

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By: ventureblogalist

ventureblogalist — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:23:55 +0000

they need to acquire cautiously so not to alienate their partners, but this is a smart play for them to expand beyond just crm seats.

By: CMSWire

CMSWire — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:08:54 +0000

Salesforce.com Buys Its Way Into the CM Space…

Salesforce.com has long been a major force in customer relationship management, but can the company known for automating customer contact buy its way into the realm of content management systems?…

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 05:44:41 +0000

It’s unbelievable how much hype Benioff/Salesforce.com can generate over what is a weak, poorly thought out offering that’s not shipping. Does anybody take a real look at their “products” and what customer might use this for? It’s not even usable — it’s go roll your own. Yipee. More marketing BS from Benioff.

By: Sramana Mitra

Sramana Mitra — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:35:40 +0000

Here’s my analysis of the Salesforce.com strategy:
http://sramanam...ra.com/blog/862

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Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:22:46 +0000

[...] SalesForce announced their new product, content exchange on TechCrunch. Now the real beauty is not in their acquisition of Koral, but their new stated mission statement [...]

By: Startup Meme » Salesforce Buys Koral, Launches Content Exchange

Startup Meme » Salesforce Buys Koral, Launches Content Exchange — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:21:15 +0000

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By: SharePoint Buzz

SharePoint Buzz — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:04:30 +0000

Competitor to SharePoint 2007? I think it has a long way too go before that happens. Until then, smaller ECMs do have something to worry about. But then again, lets wait for the product to be released before considered it a big player….what do you think?

By: J

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:43:28 +0000

I don’t know why you keep talking about Corel… it’s “Koral”

By: Jimmy Lin

Jimmy Lin — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:41:40 +0000

Open Text bought the Hummingbird a while ago.

By: pallet jack

pallet jack — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:41:36 +0000

I would say –

– Salesforce – Needs to do in house development – it cant be cheap buying the “best” products …

Why not build the best – then know them from the inside out …

By: SalesforceWatch.com

SalesforceWatch.com — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:07:11 +0000

Salesforce.com Aquires Koral; Launches Apex Content Platform…

Late last night, Salesforce announced that they have aquired the nine-person team from Koral to lead their content management initiative. As a result, they are extending the Apex platform with Apex Content — the former Koral platform. The first applic…

By: Dave Barnes

Dave Barnes — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:28:25 +0000

Erratum:

Nick wrote: “ECM’s Documentum, Hummingbird” when he meant to write: “EMC’s Documentum, Hummingbird”.

So, we have ECM from EMC.

By: The Daniel Gardner Weblog

The Daniel Gardner Weblog — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:38:42 +0000

Salesforce.com should partner with Google…

I was reading today on TechCrunch and Read/WriteWeb about Salesforce.com announcing there new Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform, stemming from there March acquisition of Koral.
This offering is great for Salesforce.com users as it will open …

By: Raj

Raj — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:14:44 +0000

Actually, is Corel relevant anywhere these days? I mean, really — besides bundle deals with Dell home users for photo editing software, are they doing anything of significant value….anywhere?

One cannot ignore the mid-market players below IBM-FileNet, EMC-Documentum, IBM Content Manager, OpenText, Interwoven etc. because they’re the ones really addressing the long-tail of this market.

The big players have been trying desperately to come down market with great difficulty while the smaller players are doing quite well.

Hyland Software is one of the largest in the mid-market and **way** more significant than Corel.

By the way, I do like what the folks at Koral have done quite a bit and didn’t know that the sold some assets to salesforce.com.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:22:04 +0000

@Raj: I agree completely. It looks like Nick has done a *very* cursory search for Enterprise Content Management apps and has completely missed the most important players in recent times. You cite the perfect example, Alfresco (http://www.alfresco.com/) as being key in the ECM market space – especially as it’s the only 100% open source solution!

By: Zoli's Blog

Zoli's Blog — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 05:45:06 +0000

Koral Acquired by Salesforce.com…

Wow, this was fast. I met Koral CEO Mark Suster some time in November, when he gave me a demo of his then pre-beta Content Collaboration system. I instantly liked it, largely for it’s simplicity – hence the title of my review: Koral – Coll…

By: Raj

Raj — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 05:23:56 +0000

Dude,

Corel is such a non-entity in ECM that it’s a little strange to even mention them, but you left out a ton of other really important companies shaking things up big time such as Alfresco.

By: Pranav

Pranav — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:38:47 +0000

You forgot to include IBM’s Web Content Management product:

http://www-142..../wdocs/homepage

By: wayne lambright

wayne lambright — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:17:42 +0000

If salesforce is looking for another company to acquire they should look at http://www.iHance.com , They have a patented solution that will alert you when somebody opens an email sent from the salesforce system. It’s like ESP for email

By: Jason M. Lemkin

Jason M. Lemkin — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:12:57 +0000

Congrats to Koral (and Salesforce) – great apps do bubble up.

By: Security

Security — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:12:43 +0000

Interesting, we will look into this for our companies.

We were at a Salesforce seminar a few months ago in NYC, too bad this was not out then,