nCino — Loan Origination on Salesforce Platform, Gets the Records Right
This post is part of an occasional series on the AppExchange as Salesforce.com celebrates the seventh anniversary of its launch. The series will focus on some of the most interesting AppExchange applications of the last year. The arc of nCino’s brief existence provides a good description of the power of application development on the Force.com [...]
Let’s Hear It for the Ecosystems!
Could we have a moment of sustained loud noise for all of the companies that form the various ecosystems around major product lines? I mean it. The ecosystem, and maybe not even social, is the story of the last five years. While many of us have been running around like Chicken Little talking up the [...]
AppExchange Seven Years On
The AppExchange is undoubtedly a significant portion of what makes salesforce.com unique. Pre-integrated solutions dramatically reduce the cost to the customer to extend the capabilities of Salesforce and the fact that it has already gone through growing pains means it will take other providers years to mimic its capability and impact. ~Narinder Singh, co-founder and CSO, Appirio [...]
Is Salesforce the new Oracle? Does it matter?
Early in its history, Oracle started out as a fast-growing database start-up, becoming a case study in Geoffrey Moore’s classic Silicon Valley entrepreneur’s textbook, Crossing the Chasm. It was only later that it added an enterprise application stack and assorted platform components to eventually become the ungainly behemoth we know today. Is Salesforce.com following a similar [...]
Dreamforce 2012: Dream a Little Dream of (with) Me: Part 1
Dreamforce 2012, a.k.a. Dreamforce X, the annual nodal point and Hollywood(like) bash run by salesforce.com was bigger and better this year than ever. Thing is, that isn’t just a comment on its coolness – though it was that, without any doubt at all. W…
Dreamforce 12: Social business capabilities evolve in the cloud
Like we needed more confirmation that the cloud is where so much of our businesses are shifting. The evolution of Salesforce is just another proof point that social business will largely exist there too.
Appirio tallies the technical debt in your Salesforce instance
Frequent customization of Salesforce can threaten the business agility of the platform. Appirio’s new tool helps you assess the damage.
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 [...]
