Salesforce.com: Onto Becoming The Enterprise Nerve Center
I attended Dreamforce 2012, Salesforce.com’s 10th annual user conference, in San Francisco, and came away feeling very positive about the company, product and the possible solutions that can get conceptualized. With ~90,000 registered attendees, 350+ partner companies and ~750 sessions, Dreamforce 2012 could very well be the largest user conference by any IT company ever [...]
A Tale Of Two Perspectives — Customers Of And Investors In HR Technology
Cover of serial Vol. V, 1859 “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it [...]
Salesforce, the Enterprise Vendor
Salesforce held its winter Cloudforce meeting in San Francisco last week. For many the meeting seemed like a reiteration of Dreamforce and to be fair there was some overlap but each time they tell the story, the company adds new wrinkles that cause people like me to pay attention. What caught the attention of many [...]
Everything’s a Game
I recently crossed a 100 miles per gallon with my Chevy Volt. For those of you who live in “advanced” societies that follow the metric system, that would be 42.5 km per liter. If you fell out of your chair at that number, that’s probably because you don’t know that the Chevy Volt is an [...]
SAP and SuccessFactors- buying the past or the future, the corporation or the human?
When news first rolled in, back in December, that SAP was going to acquire SuccessFactors my first reaction was – makes sense, that brings them some much-needed scale, with 15k customers and the potential for volume economics. And of course an aggressive sales force that lives and breathes cloud deals. But then a week or [...]
Rypple Scores One for the Force.com Platform
Because studentforce is 100% declarative any changes to the force.com platform are changes to studentforce. Got an email from Ed Schlesinger CEO of Studentforce.com, a Force.com application for the higher education market. Ed’s a big believer in the platform and his email reminded me of why the platform is so important. I quote it here complete. “So, [...]
Salesforce’s Pragmatism
Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, has often said that tactics drive strategy at his company. That’s the opposite of what we think of regarding how decisions should be made especially in big companies. The image is often of high-level decisions being refined into finer grained activities until you have tactics. Much of this is encoded [...]
Lars From Mars, The Wookey, Carmen Miranda And Me
Island Of Lost Souls — 1932 When Ron and I moved near DC in 1977, there was a late night TV program, called “Creature Features,” that we loved. It was hosted by Dick Dyszel who, for reasons lost in the mists of marital life, I nicknamed Lars from Mars. Dick played rarely shown early SciFi films, many [...]
Executive Profiles: Disruptive Tech Leaders In Social Business And Cloud Computing
Executive Profile Series Delivers The Inside View On Disruptive Technologies Starting this week, we’ll be kicking off an on-going series of interviews with the people behind the technologies in Cloud Computing and Social Business. The interviews should provide insightful points of view from a customer, industry, and vendor perspective. The transcript of the 30 minute [...]
