Salesforce. com Inc has reportedly seen better-than-expected quarterly profit. And because of this, the company has also raised the full-year forecasts.

The company has been able to see the rise since the more and more clients signed up for the cloud-computing services.

Microsoft has been taken to court by Salesforce.com over patent violation charges. Microsoft had also filed a case against Salesforce.com over the usage of intellectual property, last month. The latest case is thought as a result of the earlier suit filed by Microsoft.   

Official figures shared by the company have revealed that salesforce. com managed to add about 1,800 customers in the Asia Pacific area for its financial year which ended on 31 January, 2010.

This directly means that the vendor has now managed to bring its total customer base to some 7,000 establishments in the region, which is a 36% year-on-year hike.

With Google launching the preview mode of its communication and collaboration platform, Wave, to nearly 100,000 users on Wednesday, the new online tool from Google has attracted the interest of a number of developers – including biggies like SAP Research and salesforce.com.

Salesforce. com's customer-service platform, Service Cloud - which already helps clients keep checks on Facebook, Blogger, and Web forums - will soon be integrated with the popular messaging service Twitter.

The San Francisco, California based vendor of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions - Salesforce. com today announced that it is preparing to integrate its Service Cloud customer-service platform with the popular social networking and micro-blogging service, Twitter.

During the period of recession, when most of the companies are reporting deficit, Salesforce. com has reported nearly double fourth quarter net income. The company has been able to achieve decent numbers due to higher demand for its online business applications. This has sent the company's shares up 5 percent in extended trade.

Salesforce.com, which styles itself the enterprise cloud computing company, has expanded its global strategic alliance with Google Monday, connecting its Force.com development platform with Google’s App Engine.