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Platforms: What FinancialForce, Xactly, and Hubspot Understand

Platforms: What FinancialForce, Xactly, and Hubspot Understand

By Esteban Kolsky on October 6, 2014

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 go into nitpicking details – and never publish.  The closest I got to it was the […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud Computing, Financialforce, financialforce.com, force.com, HubSpot, Platform as a service, salesforce.com, software as a service, Xactly

Back Office Perks Up

Back Office Perks Up

By Denis Pombriant on February 19, 2014

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 about back office and cloud in the same thought you also thought about NetSuite.  Truthfully you still do, they’ve been at it […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged back office, force.com, Intacct, netsuite, salesforce.com, Zuora | 1 Response

Zuora, Intacct Deal a Sign of Things to Come

Zuora, Intacct Deal a Sign of Things to Come

By Denis Pombriant on February 14, 2014

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 this year.  It’s the separation between conventional software suites and platforms and it is most vividly explained by front to […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged force.com, Intacct, salesforce.com, Subscription business model, Zuora | 1 Response

A Brief History Of Salesforce1

A Brief History Of Salesforce1

By Esteban Kolsky on December 2, 2013

If I hear one more person tell me that Salesforce1 (S1) is a client-side app, a mobile client, the culmination of Touch (remember that launch? Not many do) or something similar I will scream (like I did the past few days).

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud Computing, df13, enterprise software, force.com, platform, s1, salesforce.com, salesforce1, SFDC

News Analysis: Salesforce 1 Signals Support For Digital Business at #DF13

News Analysis: Salesforce 1 Signals Support For Digital Business at #DF13

By R "Ray" Wang on November 18, 2013

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 meets SXSW event.  One day in advance of the largest enterprise software event of its kind, Salesforce.com announces Salesforce 1 (see Figure 1).  The Salesforce […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Apps Strategy, Big Data, BigData, Box, Business Analytics, business disruption, business impact, Business Outcomes, Business Transformation, CDO, CEO, Chief Customer Officer, Chief Digital Officer, Chief information officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Sales Officer, CIO, Cloud, CMO, CoIT, Concur, Constellation Research, CRM, CustExp, customer engagement, Customer Experience, customer experience management, customer relationship management, CXP, Data to Decisions, data visualization, Data2Decisions, df12, df13, Digital Business, Digital Strategy, disruptive, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, DocuSign, Dreamforce, dropbox, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, eVariant, Evernote, Exact Target, FileBoard, Financialforce, force.com, Force.com platform, heroku, hp, innovation, kenandy, linkedin, Marc Benioff, mobile, mobile enterprise, News Analysis, Next generation apps, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, salesforce.com, ScanBizCards, servicemax, socbiz, social business, Social Media, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, TAS group, user conference, vendor events, vendor strategy, workday, Xactly | 1 Response

Dreamforecast

Dreamforecast

By Denis Pombriant on November 7, 2013

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 happening industry-wide even if it’s not.  This year is no exception.  With no briefing yet from the company, […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged AppExchange, df13, Dreamforce, force.com, kenandy, salesforce, salesforce.com, servicemax, Zuora | 1 Response

Why Salesforce Is Winning The Cloud Platform War

Why Salesforce Is Winning The Cloud Platform War

By Louis Columbus on October 17, 2013

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 Salesforce is maturing as a cloud platform.  And the best measure of that progress can be seen in their developer community. (To be clear, Salesforce and the other companies mentioned […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Apttus, Cloud Computing, CRM, Financialforce, force.com, Louis Columbus' blog, SaaS, SaaS Early Adopter Research, salesforce, salesforce.com, servicemax, software as a service | 1 Response

Salesforce Launched Communities Today

Salesforce Launched Communities Today

By Esteban Kolsky on May 2, 2013

(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 it along the way in Cloudforce or Tour events like this one.  This is what happened with the social enterprise, and what is happening […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged #salesforcelive, force.com, Jive, salesforce.com, SFDC | 2 Responses

nCino — Loan Origination on Salesforce Platform, Gets the Records Right

nCino — Loan Origination on Salesforce Platform, Gets the Records Right

By Denis Pombriant on March 12, 2013

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 applications of the last year. The arc of nCino’s brief existence provides a good description of the power of application development on the Force.com […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged AppExchange, force.com, nCino, salesforce.com | 2 Responses

Applications that are Social

Applications that are Social

By Michael Fauscette on September 20, 2012

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 concept that I wrote about a…

Posted in Business | Tagged Concur, Concurforce, CRM, df12, Dreamforce, Financialforce, force.com, Salesforce Chatter, salesforce.com, socbiz, Social, social business

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