Salesforce.com showcases AppSpace corporate social networking service

Salesforce.com showcases AppSpace corporate social networking service

Salesforce.com Inc. has showcased their AppSpace hosted service which provides functionality similar to online social networking services like MySpace.com on a company’s network.

With this, Salesforce.com has become the latest of the software giants to enter this growing market. This new service would become a part of the Spring 07 release of the Salesforce hosted CRM (customer relationship management) software.

Kendall Collins, senior vice president of product marketing at Salesforce.com spoke on this project: “We looked at the customer portal concept to see how we could reinvent it. We see the portal more as a space, not a window, in terms of what you can do with it and how you can fill it.”

Collins added: “Our vision for AppSpace is broader. It’s going to include wikis and blogs.” They are already getting several feature addition requests from their customers.

The company would be providing a secure space for collaboration for a company’s internal staff. The service could also be made accessible to external partners if so desired by the client.