News Analysis: Understanding The Microsoft and Salesforce Partnership From The Customers POV
Microsoft’s Platform DNA and Salesforce.com Quest For User Productivity Drive The Strategic Partnership On May 29th, 2014, the Redmond based mega vendor Microsoft and the San Francisco based Cloud pioneer salesforce announced a partnership. From the teleconference call with CEOs Satya Nadella and Marc Benioff; and in conversations with over 50 key executives, partners, and […]
Salesforce1 Tour, Boston
Relentless might not be the first word you associate with Salesforce.com but in retrospect, it fits very well. Other words might include logical and well planned. President and Vice Chairman Keith Block came to Boston this week with a troupe of “forcers” to deliver the company’s post Dreamforce message to an appreciative audience. Block’s message […]
FinancialForce ERP Arrives To Signal The Era Of Best Of Breed Cloud Suites
FinancialForce Debuts Its Full ERP Suite On Feburary 19th, San Francisco headquartered, FinancialForce.com announced the launch of its full suite of ERP offerings built on the Salesforce1 platform. Backed by investments from Unit4 and Salesforce.com, the cloud based vendor began as a single ledger financial management system built on the Salesforce.com Force.com platform. The announcement […]
Salesforce1: Employee Productivity and Mobile Experiences
At Dreamforce last Fall, Salesforce introduced it’s new platform offering, Salesforce1. This week I attended the World Tour event in NYC for Salesforce1 and spent some time talking to Salesforce execs and an assortment of customers about the platform. I’ve started to write this post several times since I first heard about it, but after […]
World Tour
Some intellectual wag once described newspapers as the first draft of history with good and obvious reason. Now I have come to the conclusion that Dreamforce is the first draft of Salesforce.com’s annual plan. It has been obvious for several years but as the company has grown it has invested increasing resources into both the […]
Dreamforce Wrap-up
Dreamforce Wrap-up Ok, we survived Dreamforce and that has enabled us to limp home exhausted from all of the information we accumulated and the parties we attended just in time for the holidays. I have a lot of thoughts about the show and if I try to share most of them the result will be […]
A Brief History Of Salesforce1
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).
The Class of ‘14
The story of this year’s Dreamforce might best be told through the partner community and AppExchange and that makes it a story about the platform. Appropriately enough, Salesforce teed up the platform topic in Chairman and CEO, Marc Benioff’s keynote and the press conference immediately following it on Tuesday in which he announced Salesforce 1. […]
