
Data Analytics: Accelerating The Velocity of Innovation
Enterprises are suffering a scarcity of insight. Think about it. There is an unprecedented amount of data in the world, and it is growing exponentially by the day. In fact, according to IBM, 2.5 billion gigabytes of data are created each day. This data is being generated by everything from smartphones to enterprise databases; scientific, […]

Five big themes driving enterprise data and app development in 2015
f you read most of the prediction articles for 2015, it’s pretty clear that the conventional thought is that enterprise IT will continue to grow more collaborative with organizational phenomena such as DevOps becoming more common, that mobile computing will continue its ascent, and of course cloud computing will continue to augment and in some […]
Dreamforce ’14 Developer Keynote: The Big Reasons to Reserve Your Seat Now
On the fence about whether the DF ’14 developer keynote is for you? The developer keynote is for anyone who wants to create new apps, or extend and customize their existing salesforce implementation. Reserve your seat now before they sell out!

Apple WWDC Hints At The Fourth Age of Mobile – Pervasive, Connected Devices
Yesterday I attended the kick off of Apple’s annual developer conference, WWDC. I was fortunate enough to attend last year as well, but unlike last year which was all about new hardware, this time the keynote was all about developers. There was also a maybe not-so-subtle undertone of the direction Apple is taking then it […]
How to Really Solve a Problem with a Mobile App
While the sheer number of mobile devices in the marketplace is growing in a staggering way, what’s truly important to understand isn’t how many people have phones. It’s what the devices can do that’s really game changing. With computational power greater than NASA used to put a human on the moon, developers and app builders […]

Is Your Mobile Strategy A Coconut Or Banana?
Don’t climb the coconut tree, when a banana will do just fine. My team and I spend a lot of time talking to customers about their mobile strategy. Generally, we hear the same two things: Either,customers don’t know where to start with mobile, or their strategy involves solving too many things (security, integration, etc) to […]
FREE E-BOOK: 10 Essential Elements of Great Enterprise Mobile Apps
Mobile devices, whether you’re talking about smart phones, tablets, or other form factors, present unique development and design challenges. The kind of information, the actions you can take, the way the interface looks and works, needs to be fundamentally different in a mobile environment. Which is why, at salesforce.com, we’ve identified what we believe are […]
APIs Are Bridging the Mobile App Gap
Almost overnight, it seems, our lives came to revolve around social networks: We scan our Facebook feeds for updates from our families and relevant news, use Twitter to follow friends and celebrities, and pin the latest fashions or home-improvement ideas via Pinterest. Behind it all is the desire to drive engagement, to stay connected with […]