(2007-02-27) Salesforcecom Vs Bloomberg

[Claiming](http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/02/27/H Nsalesforcewealth_1.html?source=NLC-SOA&cgd=2007-03-01) Bloom Berg and the Bloomberg Terminal lock customers in with a proprietary workstation and software accessed on an archaic keyboard, and that Bloomberg offers a deep but very narrow selection of financial feeds, SalesforceCom will announce on Tuesday a competitive Wealth Management Edition of its SaaS (Software as a Service) application for use by wealth management professionals. Salesforce.com will also announce that Merrill Lynch will deploy the Wealth Management Edition to its 25,000 financial advisors. In addition, the company is partnering with Cisco Systems to deploy a VoIP phone with the wealth management solution for dialing customers within the context of the application.