Platform Native
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 […]
Platforms: What FinancialForce, Xactly, and Hubspot Understand
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 […]
News Analysis: Salesforce 1 Signals Support For Digital Business at #DF13
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 […]
Why Salesforce Is Winning The Cloud Platform War
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 […]
Applications that are Social
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…
Salesforce.com Plays In the Enterprise – Again
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 […]
