By Denis Pombriant on October 20, 2014
A number of Salesforce AppExchange partners including Apttus, Kenandy and ServiceMax formed an alliance called the Force United Consortium back in April but I hadn’t had the chance to talk to anyone about it. It’s a cool idea and a way to differentiate a partner that makes good use of the Salesforce1 Platform. I got […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged #df14, AppExchange, Apttus, CRM, Dreamforce, Financialforce, Intacct, kenandy, salesforce, salesforce.com, servicemax |
By Esteban Kolsky on October 6, 2014
Platforms – can’t live with them… pass the potatoes. I know, we all hate platforms. The crux of the problem is explaining what a platform is and how it works, I can write for ages about the details and go into nitpicking details – and never publish. The closest I got to it was the […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud Computing, Financialforce, financialforce.com, force.com, HubSpot, Platform as a service, salesforce.com, software as a service, Xactly
By R "Ray" Wang on November 18, 2013
Salesforce Seeks To Tackle Digital Business At Dreamforce Over 125,000 virtual and physical registrants descend on San Francisco the week of November 17th for Dreamforce 13, a future of technology meets SXSW event. One day in advance of the largest enterprise software event of its kind, Salesforce.com announces Salesforce 1 (see Figure 1). The Salesforce […]
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By Louis Columbus on October 17, 2013
The future of any enterprise software vendor is being decided today in their developer community. Alex William’s insightful thoughts on Salesforce Is A Platform Company. Period. underscores how rapidly Salesforce is maturing as a cloud platform. And the best measure of that progress can be seen in their developer community. (To be clear, Salesforce and the other companies mentioned […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Apttus, Cloud Computing, CRM, Financialforce, force.com, Louis Columbus' blog, SaaS, SaaS Early Adopter Research, salesforce, salesforce.com, servicemax, software as a service |
By Michael Fauscette on September 20, 2012
I’m spending the week at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference (more on that in a post coming shortly) and at the partner keynote on Tuesday I watched a product demo that got me thinking about this concept that I wrote about a…
Posted in Business | Tagged Concur, Concurforce, CRM, df12, Dreamforce, Financialforce, force.com, Salesforce Chatter, salesforce.com, socbiz, Social, social business
By Paul Greenberg on October 7, 2009
Back in 1999, I was a salesforce.com user and at that time, it was a rather kludgy sales force automation application that didn’t do much right – for example if I tried to export a .CSV file it gave me an .XLS file and vice versa. I read something by Marc Benioff then that said, “we […]
Posted in Business | Tagged Enterprise 2.0, Financialforce, Industry Analysis, salesforce.com