Dreamforce 2011: Salesforce & the Social Enterprise Will Be Here All Week (Part 2)
The Keynote…. and The Mythos In Part 1 I covered the overarching principles that drive salesforce – the vision that this all – meaning the current drive for the social enterprise – and the thinking that created it. I also covered the value of the environment of a Dreamforce in the consideration of the future [...]
Enterprises must change or die, says Benioff
We’ve heard this message before from Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, of course, but it was delivered with some especially gruesome imagery in a Q&A session with media and analysts at Cloudforce London today. Answering a question about companies that don’t embrace Salesforce.com’s message of the social enterprise, Benioff warned: “They’re not going to be around [...]
Salesforce.com: Understanding the ‘social enterprise’, part 1
Approximately 45,000 people registered for salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference, held in San Francisco two weeks ago, making it the largest enterprise software conference in the world. The event’s size draws attention to the growing importance of cloud computing and highlights Salesforce as an important participant in the enterprise software ecosystem. The focus of Dreamforce 2011 was [...]
The promise and challenges of Benioff’s social enterprise vision
Summary: Salesforce’s Marc Benioff continued his now-epic stream of social business thought leadership at this week’s Dreamforce 2011 in San Francisco. The messaging was certainly world class and the slew of announcements this week will address many of the shortcomings or feature gaps in its social software product line. But is a company whose roots are [...]
Dreamforce 11: Live Blogging the Benioff Keynote
I’m here at Dreamforce 11 right now in Moscone Center in San Francisco. Salesforce made major announcements last night about Chatter, their social business platform, that is now more Internet facing. I once called Chatter an enterprise social operating system and these announcements make it even more true now. Expect that this will significantly improve [...]
Salesforce Riding High, Opens Dreamforce
Salesforce.com is riding the crest of wave after wave of good news as it starts Dreamforce, its annual convocation for customers, prospects, the press and analyst communities. Forty thousand people are expected in San Francisco for the event at some point in the week. In a sign of how big this event has become, last [...]
Monday’s Musings: A Working Vendor Landscape For Social Business
Confusion Persists In The Social Business Market As with any new disruptive technology, the social business solution landscape faces a dynamic, confusing, and converging market. As vendors seek to grab mind share and market share, customers and prospects remain confused as to what are the right business problems to address with social business. However, rampant [...]
Chatting Cars and Enterprise Software
Today’s big news is Salesforce Teaming up with Toyota to create a private social network where you can befriend your car and it will “tweet” you when it’s thirsty, need a checkup etc..etc..etc – see the details from @Krishnan’s post. The opportunities are really endless – more on that later. I have to get something [...]
NetSuite? For The Enterprise? Really?
Bear with me for a second here, this is not about CRM, or about NetSuite for that matter even. This is about enterprise computing models. I attended NetSuite’s SuiteWorld 2011 yesterday (it goes for 3 days, I could not make all three unfortunately) as a guest. That means they comped me on my registration, will [...]
Cezanne’s Apple
Cezanne wrote once “With an Apple, I will astonish Paris.” Cezanne at the time was a notoriously sophisticated and gifted walking set of contradictions. He loved everything he hated and hated everything he loved. He approached painting with scalpel-like precision but with a scalpel to canvas nonetheless. He wanted the world to bleed – and [...]
