Dreamforce Day 1 Takeaways from Perficient – #DF16

What an exciting event of Dream Force 2016. First of all mind-blowing statistics of 170,000 registered attendees, 15 million online viewers, a cloud expo with many partners and ISV’s, and 2500+ sessions, 3000+ apps in AppExchange. The OHANA culture is very well displayed throughout the day. Day 1 was focused on Artificial Intelligence and what SFDC is doing in that area.

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Here is the rundown of the Dreamforce Day 1 highlights and what to look forward to this week:

• Opening Keynote
  • Salesforce announced their new product release and roadmap
  • Benefits of partnering with Salesforce (customers, service providers, ISVs)
  • Defining a new name for ISV – App Innovation Partners
  • SFDC Einstein (Artificial Intelligence)
  • SFDC is taking all the right moves to move from an idea inception à app exchange à value delivery
• IDC Stats
  • For every $1 revenue in software, $4.1 revenue of services will be generated
  • $360B revenue growth for the next 5 years (10x consultants needed to deliver)
  • ISV growth YoY was estimated to be 48%
  • Customer’s top benefit of SFDC is the reduced time to market
• Dream Pitch (A Shark Tank like a LIVE show with more than 3000 people in the room)
  • Each of the 3 finalists won $30,000 worth of SFDC services and apps
  • Up to $200,000 investment from SFDC ventures
  • Spot in incubator (Growth of startups)
  • 3 teams participated and Claire was decided as the final winner
    • CRM Market – An Angie’s List like service for CRM consultants
    • Claire – Heroku based app which is a real-time focus group for new product launch
    • Appinium — Video analytics for local videos within SFDC platform
  • Keynote from Tony Robbins
    • The “lack of resources” excuse that people give is because of their “lack of resourcefullness”
    • 3 keys factors in decision making – what does this mean, what is the focus, what are you going to do?
    • People don’t buy products, they buy emotions
    • Marketing plays a KEY factor for any product launch and they need to be empowered with data

A lot of intricate details are published in a different blog post here.