Salesforce To Compete Against Box With New, Cloud-Based File Sharing Product

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Tuesday, September 11th, 2012
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At TechCrunch Disrupt today, Salesforce CEO and founder Marc Benioff revealed the SaaS company’s next product—file storage. We don’t know much more, but the new product will be announced next week at Salesforce’s conference, Dreamforce.

Clearly, a file sharing product would compete against the likes of Box and a number of others. We’re assuming that the new product will be integrated with some of Salesforce’s other offerings including its CRM, Service Cloud and more.

A representative for Salesforce confirmed the launch of a file sharing product, and said “come to Dreamforce.” Stay tuned for more.