Seesmic is focused on social enterprise; Android, iPad Debuts Apps for Salesforce CRM

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Social application developer Seesmic makes a big step in social enterprise and debuting dedicated Android app and iPad app for Salesforce CRM product (Windows phone 7 will also be added soon), called Seesmic CRM. Android app will be published tomorrow morning at Salesforce at the annual Conference, Dreamforce and Seesmic launches iPad app within a few weeks.

For the background of Seesmic, which was founded by a French entrepreneur Loic Le Meur, allows you to monitor and follow up the social web. Seesmic desktop, Internet and mobile clients integrate with Twitter, Facebook and other social networks. Bonus using an application like Seesmic is the ability to combine your streams from a variety of social Web services such as YouTube, Foursquare, Techmeme, LinkedIn, and others.

But lately, Seesmic dabbling in the enterprise and launch more focused business functions. Last fall, Seesmic has deep integration with Salesforce enterprise social network chatter. And then earlier this year, Salesforce 4 million Australian dollars round in Seesmic.

Mostly Seesmic Android and iPad apps CRM lead all the functionality of Salesforce CRM for mobile phones. Users can search their Salesforce.com account from native applications; Search for leads, contacts, accounts, related activities and sets of chatter on the move; Creating and updating leads, contacts, tasks, and activities; Log calls and emails after meetings; and much more. And applications use mobile OS; to map users to their respective leads to their current location; upload photos and more. While prices had not been announced yet, Seesmic may charge a fee of $ 10 per month per user for the application.

Le Meur tells us that he does not compete with Salesforce CRM giant, because currently does not offer in-depth Android and iPad apps. In fact, Seesmic is working "hand in hand" with Salesforce mobile group to develop these native apps. And Salesforce particularly bullish on social enterprise at the end — "Welcome to the social enterprise» is the theme of the Dreamforce this year. As Le Meur said: "we are working with Salesforce, not compete with the company."

Of course it's interesting that Twitter's developer platform is shifting focus from building consumer and focusing on the enterprise. In March, Twitter basically told developers avoid compete with them on their own customers. It's not that Twitter doesn't want developers to build off their platform, they simply do not want developers to create clients that simulate Twitter's own services.

Thus Seesmic found new user base in the area of business. Le Meur explains that the use of mobile and social enterprise of the future for Seesmic. While the startup will not relinquish their Web and mobile applications (Android app company has more than one million users); all efforts of Seesmic now completely focused on attracting social for business users, "said Le million euros.

Seesmic BlackBerry app shuttered a few months ago. You can watch Le million euros in a recent conversation with TechCrunch TV Andrew Kina here.

(Disclosure: TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington was an early investor in Seesmic.)

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Box.NET bets on HTML5 new mobile site; Starts The PlayBook And Android Tablet Apps

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CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie Box .net was open about his belief that mobile is a key pillar of cloud storage companies in the future. The company already offers native apps for a number of platforms, including Android, iPhone, iPad and BlackBerry, but mobile site lacks functionality. That's why the field completely re-developed its mobile site, and then launches HTML5 mobile offer and debuting apps for Android and BlackBerry devices the Tablet PlayBook.

For the background of the box which has 6 million users and stores 300 million documents, is a storage platform cloud for the enterprise, which comes with collaboration, social and mobile functionality. The field has become more than just storage platform Fils and became a full-fledged joint applications, where companies can actually talk about updates to the document, synchronize files remotely and even add features of Salesforce, Google Apps, NetSuite, hurt, and others.

And now many customers Box wants to gain access to most of the functions listed above on mobile devices. Levie tells us that the field has witnessed a 600% increase in sales, coming from companies that want to mobile deployment. And the box has 1 million users through the ioS, Android and other mobile applications. Levie said that the mobile site is actually the most commonly used mobile offering mobile collection Box.

HTML5 site is now more interactive, and includes automatic updates page commenting functionality, update, search, new user interface and generally faster than the previous site. Users can also access and view files and folders, and share content, colleagues and contacts.

The company also launches new application for Android and BlackBerry Tablet PlayBook.

After a conversation with Levie briefly about the new proposals of boxing, very obvious that he is bullish on mobile for the enterprise. "If you have visited our office today, every third word of mouth in the field has to do with our mobility strategy," he said. "I see the inflection point for mobility is cloud computing and we want to make sure that we are in the Centre of this."

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