How to get the best performance out of Salesforce and other SaaS apps

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Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has become a standard consideration for even the largest companies, but the tools IT teams have traditionally used for application performance monitoring aren’t designed for these online tools. IT needs another way to make sure SaaS applications such as Salesforce.com are working properly.In order to understand and get full visibility into SaaS applications and how they are performing, you need to do the following:1. Measure the actual end-user experience.

The 25 Most Valuable Cloud Computing Companies Are Worth Way More Than You'd Think

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With Box's successful IPO last week, there are now 25 public companies in the cloud computing market worth more than $1 billion, according to Bessemer Venture Partners' Cloud Index. And the market cap of the top 30 cloud tracked by the BVP Cloud index hit more than $155 billion last week, too. (The index tracks 41 public companies.) That's grown by a lot. In 2013, when the index was new, the top 30 companies were worth about $100 billion and only 15 of them were worth over $1 billion. Here's another shocker: Byron Deeter and Kristina ShenNo.

More Than 80% Of Facebook's Daily Users Are Mobile (FB)

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Facebook reported earnings for its fiscal fourth quarter of 2014 on Wednesday. It made $3.85 billion in revenue last quarter, a 49% increase year-over-year, beating analysts' expectations of $3.77 billion. Facebook said nearly 70% of its $3.59 billion in ad revenue came from mobile, which was reflected by the company's breakdown of its daily active users. Based on company data charted for us by BI Intelligence, Facebook logged an average of 890 million daily active users in December 2014, an increase of 18% year-over-year.

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