Dreamforce 2011: Salesforce & the Social Enterprise Will Be Here All Week (Part 3)
The “Other” Technology Stuff Chatter was the centerpiece of the social enterprise that salesforce.com announced but still only part of the technological foundation. Several other pieces need to be brought out here before we rev up the engines and fly briefly into the CRM pillars of salesforce and some of my concerns in the midst [...]
Dreamforce 2011: Salesforce & the Social Enterprise Will Be Here All Week (Part 1)
Every time I write about Salesforce, I feel compelled to tell the same story as my opening. So I’m gonna again, because I genuinely think that its vital to understand where they are coming from with everything they do. I know this is about 2+ weeks after Dreamforce and this is in three parts but….. [...]
Data, Here and There
One of the more announcements Marc Benioff off made in his Day 1 Keynote was database.com. The news is that Salesforce is now enabling its customers to store their data on their own hardware inside their data centers. There is a need or at least a demand for this capability as many large enterprises and [...]
Previewing Dreamforce
People keep calling me to ask what Salesforce is going to announce and Dreamforce. My standard answer is, how would I know? I get briefings like a lot of analysts but in a situation like this you usually have to promise to hold the news until the company makes its announcements. This is not new [...]
How Salesforce Missed their Golden Opportunity with Free Chatter
Today, January 31 2011, Salesforce made their Chatter product available for free to any company in the world. There are certain limitations to the offer: there is no access to the reporting dashboards, no access to the AppExchange marketplace, and all user accounts must be in the same domain name. Under this model, the first [...]
Informatica Re-Factors the Value Chain for the Cloud
Informatica’s cloud ambitions continue and deepen with each new release. In the three years since its launch, Informatica Cloud, the strategic initiative launched to bring Informatica’s data integration assets to the cloud, has won salesforce.com’s Best of AppExchange award for 2008 and 2009, added other cloud-based applications as targets, and most significant, signed up 650 [...]
VMForce: Salesforce and VMWare’s Cool New Platform as a Service
Salesforce and VMWare have big news today with the pre-announcement of VMForce. Inevitably it will be less big than the hype that’s sure to come, but that’s no knock on the platform, which looks pretty cool. Fellow Enterprise Irregular and Salesforce VP Anshu Sharma provides an excellent look at VMForce. What is VMForce and how is it different [...]
Salesforce Enters Data Services Market
The announcement that Salesforce.com is acquiring Jigsaw caught my attention for a couple of reasons. Jigsaw’s unique Wikipedia-style crowd-sourcing model delivers the world’s most complete, accurate and up-to-date business contact data The combination of Jigsaw and salesforce.com will allow companies to easily find, purchase and manage data that is seamlessly integrated with their CRM apps [...]
NetSuite, The Forgotten Man
Last week I took advantage of the opportunity to visit with NetSuite during their annual partner conference held here in San Francisco. I wasn’t expecting anything earth shattering, if only because this company has been around for a long time now, 12 years to be exact and probably as well known for it’s largest shareholder, [...]
Google’s Control Panel is its Killer App
Google last week brought the spotlight back onto on-demand application marketplaces with its launch of the Google Apps Marketplace. Until the search and online advertising giant waded in, the territory had been a quiet backwater, dominated for the past few years by Salesforce.com’s AppExchange. It’s hard now to credit just how much excitement surrounded the [...]
