Dell pushing into the cloud business

Dell pushing into the cloud business

Dell is expanding its relationship with Salesforce.com, and intends to market the software of the online CRM pioneer as additional services as an integrated offering cloud services. The target group are small and medium enterprises. Dell itself occurs primarily as a systems integrator and offers appropriate services, and analysis capabilities in the cloud for various merged business applications. First, a CRM solution in the offering, Salesforce Sales Cloud with various back-office applications, connect, for example, with Microsoft Dynamics GP and Intuit QuickBooks. Dynamics GP (formerly Great Plains) is an ERP solution for medium-sized businesses, QuickBooks is a financial software for small firms.

The CRM offering will mark only the erstwhile into the business with hosted business applications. Applications such as marketing and accounting are to follow next year. When integrating the various products Dell Boomi atomsphere is used, a software that will help to link SaaS and cloud applications, as well as stationary solutions of all kinds. Customers can choose between a basic version, Professional version and a Premier Edition. For the CRM offering Dell wants to collect from 565 dollars per month, the implementation service costs from $ 5,000.