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Dreamforce 2014: Converging on cloud, apps, mobile, analytics, and community

Dreamforce 2014: Converging on cloud, apps, mobile, analytics, and community

By Dion Hinchcliffe on October 15, 2014

The vision Salesforce has for market-facing engagement is the right one: Tear down data, app, and user experience silos between marketing, sales, operations, and support. But does their cloud measure up to this vision yet?

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged #df14, Dreamforce 2014, Lightning Platform, Moscone Center, Parker Harris, salesforce, salesforce.com, San Francisco

Workdays quiet leadership

Workdays quiet leadership

By Vinnie Mirchandani on September 24, 2014

In 2009, I wrote a blog about Parker Harris, the co-founder of Salesforce.com titled The Loneliness of a Pioneer. I wrote “..in some ways he wishes the larger vendors would be there today. There are common engineering and plumbing challenges every competitor hits which are useful to share experiences around.  It would be good for the […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged #wday, Aneel Bhusri, Parker Harris, PeopleSoft, salesforce.com, workday, Workday Tech Summit

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Salesforce at 15

By Denis Pombriant on March 7, 2014

Fifteen is an interesting anniversary.  We tend to think about major anniversaries in ten-year increments with the five-year internode acting more as a gut check.  Fifteen is close enough to the creation that all of the relevant parties are still around and most are still in place.  But it’s also far enough in the rearview […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged benioff, Parker Harris, salesforce, salesforce.com, San Francisco, Siebel Systems

Chatterbox takes new angle on file sharing

Chatterbox takes new angle on file sharing

By Phil Wainewright on September 19, 2012

Rather than centering collaboration around documents, Salesforce.com’s new file syncing add-on to Chatter centers file sharing around signals

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Chatterbox, collaboration, df12, Dreamforce, dropbox, Parker Harris, salesforce.com, Virgin America | 3 Responses

Executive Profiles: Disruptive Tech Leaders In Social Business – Parker Harris, Salesforce.com

Executive Profiles: Disruptive Tech Leaders In Social Business – Parker Harris, Salesforce.com

By R "Ray" Wang on August 29, 2011

  Welcome to an on-going series of interviews with the people behind the technologies in Social Business.  The interviews  provide insightful points of view from a customer, industry, and vendor perspective.  A full list of interviewees can be found here. Parker Harris, Co-Founder and Executive VP of Technology Biography Parker Harris founded salesforce.com along with […]

Posted in Business | Tagged #DF11, $crm Salesforce.com, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Co-Founder, Constellation Research, CRM, data.com, database.com, disruptive, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, Dreamforce, e20, e2conf, Enterprise 2.0, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Executive Profiles, Forbes, Parker Harris, R “Ray” Wang;, R "Ray" Wang;, Radian 6, Radian6, rwang0, SaaS, SCRM, social business, Social Business Software, Social CRM, software as a service, Thursday's Tech Showcase, Thursday’s Tech Showcase | 1 Response

Executive Profiles: Disruptive Tech Leaders In Social Business And Cloud Computing

Executive Profiles: Disruptive Tech Leaders In Social Business And Cloud Computing

By R "Ray" Wang on May 29, 2011

Executive Profile Series Delivers The Inside View On Disruptive Technologies Starting this week, we’ll be kicking off an on-going series of interviews with the people behind the technologies in Cloud Computing and Social Business.  The interviews should provide insightful points of view from a customer, industry, and vendor perspective.  The transcript of the 30 minute […]

Posted in Business | Tagged aaron levie, Adam Rogers, adobe, Adobe Systems, Alan F. Nugent, Alcatel-Lucent, Alistair Rennie, Aneel Bhusri, Attensity Group, Bill Jacarsuo, Bob Kelly, Box.net, Brad Smith, BunchBall, Charlie Isaacs, Clarabridge, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Danile Debow, David Bankston, David Sacks, disruptive, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, Ed Van Siclen, Eugene Lee, Executive Profiles, Gaurav Dhillon, Get Satisfaction, Greg Gianforte, hootsuite, Ian Hersey, ibm, INgage Networks, Intuit, Jive Software, Lithium Technologies, loic le meur, Lyle Fong, Marcel LeBrun, Michael Ni, microsoft, Moxie Software, Mzinga, netsuite, Parker Harris, Pervasive Software, Peter Lorenz, R “Ray” Wang;, R "Ray" Wang;, Radian6, Rajat Paharia, Ram Menon, Randy Guard, RightNow, RightNow Technologies, Rob Howard, Rob Tarkoff, rwang0, Ryan Holmes, Rypple, salesforce.com, sap, SAP AG, SAS Institute, seesmic, Sid Banerjee, SnapLogic, social business, Social Business Software, socialtext, Telligent, TIBCO Software, Tien Tzuo, Tom Kelly, Tony Zingale, Ultimate Software, vendor strategy, Verafirma, Wendy Lea, workday, yammer, Zach Nelson, Zuora | 1 Response

Thunder in the Clouds – SXSW Panel, March 14th at 12:30

Thunder in the Clouds – SXSW Panel, March 14th at 12:30

By Michael Coté on March 12, 2011

Overview of a cloud panel at SXSW I’m moderating.

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Cloud, conferences, Javier Soltero, Parker Harris, sxsw, sxsw2011

Salesforce acquires Heroku: Dork Move, guys.

Salesforce acquires Heroku: Dork Move, guys.

By James Governor on December 8, 2010

I came into the office this morning to see a tweet that stopped me in my tracks. Salesforce.com is acquiring Heroku for $212m. In cash! Beyond the obvious bubbliciousness of the deal was a cold hard truth about the once and future kingmakers – developers. You see I didn’t first hear about Heroku from a […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon Web Services, developers, heroku, joyent, node.js, Parker Harris, Rails, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, salesforce.com | 2 Responses

Salesforce.com co-founder: Collaboration and the social enterprise

Salesforce.com co-founder: Collaboration and the social enterprise

By Michael Krigsman on May 3, 2010

Salesforce.com’s Chatter platform offers a promising advance for collaboration in the enterprise. Watch an important video interview with the company’s co-founder.

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged and SOA, CIO issues, Cultural issues, E-Commerce, Enterprise 2.0, interview, IT issues, PaaS, Parker Harris, SaaS, salesforce.com, Twitter, Video interview

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