Today Salesforce.com announced its long awaited release of Communities, which in Salesforce’s own words ended the era of legacy portal software. These are heady words, but Salesforce may have actually created something that is taking the portal concept into a different direction. The motor that is driving Communities is Chatter, Salesforce’s social collaboration platform. Salesforce.com […]
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Salesforce: Customer Company – Chicago
McCormick Place – Chicago Waiting for Marc to hit the stage in this ‘intimate’ town hall here is Chicago. A client of ours, Cars.com, is talking about how they use Salesforce to help sell and crunch data: Adding value to the data through customizing reporting back from the dealer giving a better experience for the […]
Chatter to become the primary interface for salesforce.com
We continue to follow closely the developments at salesforce.com because of the now wide range of solutions available through their platforms. For example, I recently blogged about how to use Force.com to build a portal . Salesforce.com also has Chatter, which is an extremely powerful social platform that runs on browsers, desktops and mobile devices. In […]
Salesforce: Can I really build a portal on the platform?
Back in 2012, Gartner included Salesforce.com in their Horizontal Portal Magic Quadrant as a Visionary. Since that time, many people have scratched their head wondering how is a CRM system a horizontal portal? In fact, Michael Porter recently blogged about Virgin Airline’s new employee portal built on Salesforce. But the real story behind Salesforce […]
Virgin Airlines Doesn’t Think Salesforce Chatter is Just Social
Matt Weinberger at citeworld.com has an article about Virgin Airline’s new employee portal built on Salesforce Chatter and Force.com. It’s a great example of the power of Social and SaaS. I fully believe that employee intranets should have social components but those social components should not overlook the fact that you still have to meet […]
Virgin Airlines Doesn't Think Salesforce Chatter is Just Social
Matt Weinberger at citeworld.com has an article about Virgin Airline’s new employee portal built on Salesforce Chatter and Force.com. It’s a great example of the power of Social and SaaS. I fully believe that employee intranets should have social components but those social components should not overlook the fact that you still have to meet […]
API’s and the Mobile Space
Like many software developers, I am an avid follower of Slashdot and in fact, have it as my browser’s home page. This morning when I started up the browser, the top story on Slashdot at the moment was the announcement that the White House’s ‘We The People’ initiative was releasing a series of API’s in […]
Why Amazon and Salesforce are pulling away from the Cloud Pack
GigaOM has an interesting article about why they think Amazon and Salesforce are blowing away the competition when it comes to cloud offerings. Keep in mind that author James Urquhart is saying that these two are leaving companies like Google and Microsoft in the dust. Here’s a couple quotes before my thoughts. I almost feel silly […]
Cloud Computing Defined
Thanks to Erin Moloney (@erine) for a link to this. Technology Review published by MIT has an article about the U.S. government’s National Institute of Standards and Technology creating a standard definition and a Cloud Computing Reference Architecture. In and of itself that’s not much news. However, I did like the definitions of cloud which […]