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Google Launches Apps Marketplace
I’m at the Google Campfire One event where they’ve just announced the Google Apps Marketplace. The site is live now, feel free to browse. The speculation is now over, this is Google’s answer on...
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Salesforce.com Is Into SAP – Ask FinancialForce
I ran across this rather interesting press release this morning from TMCNet saying: “FinancialForce.com Announces Out-of-the-Box SAP Integration for Sharing Financial Data.” All I have to say in this...
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Building Disruptive Business Structures in the Cloud
Sometimes it seems that we miss the most obvious things with all our buzzword discussions about cloud computing and social media. The essential change enabled by these technology artefacts is quite...
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Salesforce Enters the REAL Cloud — I Think
As many of you probably know, salesforce.com acquired Jigsaw a few days ago for an incredible (incredible for Jigsaw that is) $142,000,000. If you don’t know what Jigsaw is, be patient, grasshopper,...
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Sharing Files in a Multi-Device World
Listen to my conversation with Adam Gross, senior vice president of marketing and sales at cloud storage and synchronization service Dropbox. In this podcast, find out how file-sharing between users...
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VMforce: Why? What? How?
There are a few questions every CIO, developer and business user will ask about VMForce: What is VMforce? Why does it matter to me? How will it work? Will it help me build new kinds of apps that are...
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VMForce edition: the salesforce.com case study
As salesforce.com introduces with VMWare a potential “game-changer” when it comes to Java development, we present some excerpts from Chapter 19, the case study on salesforce.com in the upcoming book....
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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