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.
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.
