Salesforce launched a community cloud so its customers can engage consumers and ultimately grow sales. Are communities really the next battleground?

Salesforce.com next month will begin shipping its Communities application, designed to let companies build external-facing social sites for interacting with their customers and partners.

Salesforce Communities is basically an offshoot of Chatter but with many more possibilities for public forums, such as a helpdesk, and private communities for collaboration between sales partners.

San Francisco-based Salesforce.com is taking its business social software Chatter and is allowing customers to create externally-focused networks in a new product called Salesforce Communities ...

Salesforce is debuting Chatter Communities for Partners, which allows companies to create multiple private, branded communities for organizations to communicate with vendors.

Salesforce has deployed a custom agent, called “Agentforce for Partner Community,” to answer partner questions around the clock ...

Salesforce has officially closed its acquisition of Buddy Media, but it looks like it is far from closing the door on what it intends to do in the space of enterprise and social communication ...

The ever-expanding CRM Cloud titan Salesforce.com is adding another offering to its extensive product portfolio: Salesforce Communities. With Communites, Salesforce.com customers create their own ...

Salesforce.com has renamed and updated its Communities product, which lets companies build social websites where employees, partners and customers can mingle and collaborate. Now called ...

Salesforce Communities will launch as a limited pilot in fall 2012 and be generally available the second half of 2013. Pricing for Salesforce Communities will be announced at general availability.