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VMForce: Salesforce and VMWare’s Cool New Platform as a Service
Salesforce and VMWare have big news today with the pre-announcement of VMForce. Inevitably it will be less big than the hype that’s sure to come, but that’s no knock on the platform, which looks...
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VMforce.com redefines the PaaS landscape
I must confess that Salesforce.com has surprised me today with the launch of VMforce.com — and in a good way. For a while, I’ve been thinking that open source platforms were the chink in the armor of...
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The Java cloud? VMforce – Quick Analysis
The new thing is that force.com now supports an additional runtime, in addition to Apex. That new runtime uses the Java language, with the constraint that it is used via the Spring framework. Which is...
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Anticipating Dreamforce
Dreamforce, Salesforce.com’s annual user meeting and thought leadership confab, is two weeks away and the anticipation for this event is palpable. In a tough economy people are looking for the company...
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More on Salesforce and Radian6
All the chatter about the Salesforce acquisition of Radian6 is quite interesting. A couple of postings from people I respect make good points. First Joe Payne, CEO of Eloqua: “Conspicuously absent...
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Some Economic Consequences of Dreamforce
Dreamforce 2011 It’s worthwhile to consider the economic consequences of Dreamforce — the products announced as well as the cultural issues it raised. Now, I am not an economist and I encourage you to...
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Rypple Scores One for the Force.com Platform
Because studentforce is 100% declarative any changes to the force.com platform are changes to studentforce. Got an email from Ed Schlesinger CEO of Studentforce.com, a Force.com application for the...
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PaaS Ecosystems & ERP: The Next (and Hugely Important) Frontier
The Next (and Hugely Important) Frontier Many, many years ago, on a very snowy day in New York City, I sat in on a Merrill Lynch investor conference. Marc Benioff of salesforce.com was one of the...
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nCino — Loan Origination on Salesforce Platform, Gets the Records Right
This post is part of an occasional series on the AppExchange as Salesforce.com celebrates the seventh anniversary of its launch. The series will focus on some of the most interesting AppExchange...
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Salesforce Launched Communities Today
(Event note: the traditional Salesforce marketing cycle is to announce a new model/slogan/message at a Dreamforce event, then take the next 1-2 yeas to strengthen the delivery of that message, refining...
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Why Salesforce Is Winning The Cloud Platform War
The future of any enterprise software vendor is being decided today in their developer community. Alex William’s insightful thoughts on Salesforce Is A Platform Company. Period. underscores how rapidly...
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Dreamforecast
For many years I have written a piece that attempts to forecast the major themes of Dreamforce. I believe I am not always right but the exercise is fun and helps me orient toward what should be...
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News Analysis: Salesforce 1 Signals Support For Digital Business at #DF13
Salesforce Seeks To Tackle Digital Business At Dreamforce Over 125,000 virtual and physical registrants descend on San Francisco the week of November 17th for Dreamforce 13, a future of technology...
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A Brief History Of Salesforce1
(note: this is a similar format to my brief history of SCRM, which was widely successful at the time to explain how SCRM came to be. This is in no way related to Stephen Hawkins’ masterpiece – but you...
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Zuora, Intacct Deal a Sign of Things to Come
We’re beginning to see an important differentiation, even a schism, in the enterprise software industry. It’s been building up for the last seven years and it will burst onto the scene tied in a bow...
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Back Office Perks Up
What’s going on in the back office? That normally staid bastion of conventional computing is perking up taking on subscriptions and cloud computing like candy. It used to be that when you thought...
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Platforms: What FinancialForce, Xactly, and Hubspot Understand
Platforms – can’t live with them… pass the potatoes. I know, we all hate platforms. The crux of the problem is explaining what a platform is and how it works, I can write for ages about the details and...
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Bringing Social Tools Into Sales
I’m at Salesforce.com’s Cloudforce event in London today, where there’s a lot of talk about Chatter, the vendor’s social collaboration platform. There are several announcements coinciding with the...
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Dreamforce 2010
Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference opened last Tuesday morning to the driving beat of WILL.I.AM and the showmanship of its flamboyant CEO Marc Benioff. Dreamforce is always a lively event but this...
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Applications that are Social
I’m spending the week at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference (more on that in a post coming shortly) and at the partner keynote on Tuesday I watched a product demo that got me thinking about this...
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