MindTouch Delivers Knowledge Base for Salesforce Customers
MindTouch is one of the early leaders in the Enterprise 2.0 space –their CEO, Aaron Fulkerson was a regular attendee on the conference circuit. Over the last couple of years however, MindTouch has gone pretty silent as market conditions and heightened competition caused them to disappear from view. I bumped into Fulkerson in San Diego [...]
Salesforce.com: Pushing social business into the mainstream
Dreamforce was a huge cloud and social enterprise success, but salesforce.com still has challenges ahead.
Salesforce.com: Onto Becoming The Enterprise Nerve Center
I attended Dreamforce 2012, Salesforce.com’s 10th annual user conference, in San Francisco, and came away feeling very positive about the company, product and the possible solutions that can get conceptualized. With ~90,000 registered attendees, 350+ partner companies and ~750 sessions, Dreamforce 2012 could very well be the largest user conference by any IT company ever [...]
Salesforce Becomes the First Next Generation Enterprise Platform
Strong words but, as I predicted, the announcements at this years DreamForce point to Salesforce firmly creating for itself the position of first true IT platform of the cloud era – that’s a lofty statement but a justified one I believe. From the release, here are the announcements:
Box Counters Salesforce Smackdown
At TechCrunch Disrupt last week, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff leaked his own company’s news of a new content collaboration and sharing service dubbed ChatterBox. I’ve actually known about the product for a month or so, my sources who told me of its initial existence said that it was a direct
Dataloader.io Provides Easy Salesforce Migration
One of the great untold barriers to actually moving to the cloud is the not insignificant pain that organizations feel when migrating their data from an existing system of record to a cloud solution. This is especially the case when the solution is both an integral part of the organization’s
Looking Forward to DreamForce 2012
The annual Salesforce extravaganza DreamForce is just around the corner (disclosure, I’ll be attending DreamForce and Salesforce will be covering my T&E account) and with it comes my annual look forward and prediction of what is to come. For reference check out my previous prediction posts here and here. This
FinancialForce 2012 Release–Delivering a Loosely Coupled Set of Solutions
Nicely timed to coincide with next week’s DreamForce conference comes the summer 2012 release from FinancialForce, the cloud accounting company that is both part owned by Salesforce, and built upon the force.com platform. While product announcements tend to be a little ho-hum, this one is interesting since it comes from
Indicee Launches Analytics for Chatter
I’ve been using Salesforce Chatter for a few years now, I’ve also used other so-called enterprise social tools – Yammer and Socialcast for instance. While these tools are useful for small teams directly engaged in projects, it has always struck me that there is a lot of value left on the table when it comes [...]
Expert panel: Transform business with social enterprise
A stellar panel of experts got together to discuss business innovation based on cloud, social, and mobile technologies. Watch the video here.
Salesforce Launches Chatter Communities
Salesforce is this morning announcing a new product, Chatter Communities, that aims to take the engagement aspects of its social tool Chatter out to specific verticals within organizations. Chatter Communities allows an organization to set up a specific community quickly – as an example it could be used to create
Microsoft Buys Yammer- A Two Minute Analysis
So Microsoft has confirmed the rumored acquisition of Yammer for $1.2B. Here’s my thoughts; Potentially this is a great opportunity for MSFT to create a fabric that spans their different enterprise products (Dynamics, Office, SharePoint) that’s a big big opportunity but I believe technology and platform hurdles will push that possibility well into the future [...]
Social – An Enterprise Overlay, or an Enterprise Fabric?
On a recent trip to San Francisco I spent talking with both salesforce and NetSuite people about their approach and general view of “social” as it relates to enterprise software. I call out these two vendors because while both are cloud-centric enterprise software companies, they have very different views on social. In fact, salesforce and [...]
SAP, SuccessFactors, Ariba and the Brave new World of Mobile, Social and Cloud
Recently I spent a day in Sydney attending an Analyst day that was held alongside Successfactor’s SuccessConnect user conference [disclosure – Successfactors covered my travel and accommodation to attend the briefing]. Other than a few email and twitter conversations, it was the first deep conversation I’d had with folks from
Chatter Messenger – Real-Time Synchronicity
Messenger sees salesforce roll out technology they gained from the acquisition of DimDim – real time aims to build upon the usage of Chatter by offering a whole raft of real time functionality that will remove the need for organizations to continue using a number of tools they currently do. Real time enables presence [...]
