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Reflections on BoxWorks

Reflections on BoxWorks

By Ben Kepes on November 26, 2012

Having had a little while to reflect on a month that saw me attend both DreamForce and BoxWorks, I wanted to get down some thoughts on what is happening with Box, one of Silicon Valley’s current darlings. This is all the more relevant given the slightly uncomfortable position that Box found itself in after DreamWorks […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Mobile | Tagged #df12, aaron levie, boxworks, chatterbox, dreamforce, gooddata, netsuite, salesforce, salesforce.com, Sam Schillace, SAP AG

Dreamforce, BoxWorks, Arse-Kissing, and Behavioral vs. Attitudinal Loyalty

Dreamforce, BoxWorks, Arse-Kissing, and Behavioral vs. Attitudinal Loyalty

By Jason M. Lemkin on October 10, 2012

Not tooo long ago, I was meeting with one of EchoSign’s largest customers.  As I was coming, someone else was leaving – Marc Benioff. He’d come (flying private I assume, and possibly straight from Hawaii) to … kiss the customer’s arse, as near as I could tell.  The customer already had thousands and thousands of […]

Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged #df12, aaron levie, Apple, boxworks, dreamforce, echosign, loyalty, salesforce.com, Service cloud, united airlines

Nothing Stops the Box Bunny

Nothing Stops the Box Bunny

By Zoli Erdos on October 7, 2012

OK, so I ‘m abandoning my pictorial post schedule, as Box-mania just broke out, and I feel compelled to jump in.  But the skipped  NetSuite post is coming soon… I’ve been following Box longer than probably most observers and some of the old memories are worth sharing – from an admittedly subjective point of view. […]

Posted in Application Software, Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged @levie, #df12, Aaron, box, box.net, boxworks, collaboration, conferences, dreamforce, File sharing, Filesharing, netsuite, salesforce.com, sharepoint, startups, techcrunch | 1 Response

Cloud Case Study–BlueWolf

Cloud Case Study–BlueWolf

By Ben Kepes on October 5, 2012

While at DreamForce recently I took the opportunity to sit down and talk with BlueWolf a business process and strategy consultancy that does a lot of work with mid sized and enterprise customers helping them move their IT to a more agile way of doing things. BlueWolf has some 3000 customers across tech, financial services […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged #df12, appexchange, appirio, BlueWolf, cloud computing, dreamforce, openair, PSA, quickbooks, salesforce.com

If Developers are the new Kingmakers–Salesforce is Starting to Own the Castle

If Developers are the new Kingmakers–Salesforce is Starting to Own the Castle

By Ben Kepes on October 4, 2012

I’ve been attending Salesforce’s user conference now for a few years and one thing that’s always been a little awkward is the fact that Salesforce has always tried to make the event meaningful for developers but has generally created a kind of Frankenstein beast where suited business types get highbrow in the main conference whilst […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged #df12, appexchange, dreamforce, heroku, Heroku Platform, opensource, Redmonk, salesforce, salesforce.com

A Pictorial Tale of Two Conferences (and more)

A Pictorial Tale of Two Conferences (and more)

By Zoli Erdos on October 3, 2012

Recently I’ve attended two conferences two weeks apart in San Francisco, and the difference in style is shocking.  One did not even feel like a conference, rather a Festival – Woodstock, Mardi Gras, SXSW – your pick:-)  The other a decidedly more “closed” traditional corporate conference, so much so, that fellow commentators actually compared it […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged #df12, box, box.net, boxworks, conferences, dreamforce, festival, Howard Street, Moscone, Moscone Center, netsuite, oow, oow12, opennes, Oracle, salesforce.com, San Francisco, suiteworld, workday | 4 Responses

The Magic at DreamForce 2012

The Magic at DreamForce 2012

By Dave Michels on September 27, 2012

Dreamforce is an impressive conference, though I have never actually attended one. At least not in person, I always make it a point to watch the posted videos as the show has some truly impressive content. This year there was decidedly less video posted, I think the CMOs that get featured are increasingly restricting their […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged #df12, conferences, contact center, CRM, dreamforce, salesforce, social, telecom, UC

On the Cloud, and Me on Forbes

On the Cloud, and Me on Forbes

By Ben Kepes on September 27, 2012

While at DreamForce I took the opportunity to sit down with the awesome Sarah Austin to film an interview talking about why I’m so excited about the convergence I’m seeing between a number of different trends – social networking, mobility, ubiquitous connectivity, generational shifts, the internet of things and the

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged #df12, Forbes, Sarah Austin

Salesforce.com: Pushing social business into the mainstream

Salesforce.com: Pushing social business into the mainstream

By Michael Krigsman on September 24, 2012

Dreamforce was a huge cloud and social enterprise success, but salesforce.com still has challenges ahead.

Posted in Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged #df12, CIO, dreamforce, salesforce.com, Social Enterprise

Dreamforce 2012: Betting On Social Enterprise

Dreamforce 2012: Betting On Social Enterprise

By Krishnan Subramanian on September 24, 2012

Dreamforce 2012 was held last week at San Francisco with large number of attendees from all over the world. If the conference numbers are any indication of market performance, Salesforce is giving a tough fight to Oracle but they rarely indicate anything significant other than showing enthusiasm among their users. With master showman Marc Benioff […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged #df12, 2012, dreamforce, dreamforce 2012, Enterprise, insights, salesforce, Social Business, Social Enterprise | 1 Response

Salesforce.com: Onto Becoming The Enterprise Nerve Center

Salesforce.com: Onto Becoming The Enterprise Nerve Center

By Sadagopan on September 20, 2012

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 […]

Posted in Application Software, Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged #df12, dreamforce, salesforce.com | 4 Responses

Salesforce Becomes the First Next Generation Enterprise Platform

Salesforce Becomes the First Next Generation Enterprise Platform

By Ben Kepes on September 19, 2012

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:

Posted in Application Software, Business, Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged #df12, Buddy Media, dreamforce, dropbox, netsuite, salesforce, salesforce.com, SAP AG, Service cloud, work.com | 1 Response

Box Counters Salesforce Smackdown

Box Counters Salesforce Smackdown

By Ben Kepes on September 18, 2012

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

Posted in Application Software, Business, Featured Posts | Tagged #df12, aaron levie, Asia, Benioff, dreamforce, dropbox, salesforce, salesforce.com, startups, TechCrunch Disrupt, Zero–sum game | 2 Responses

Looking Forward to DreamForce 2012

Looking Forward to DreamForce 2012

By Ben Kepes on September 11, 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

Posted in Application Software, Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged #df12, Aneel Bhusri, Benioff, dreamforce, heroku, rypple, salesforce.com, vmware, work.com, workday

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