By Denis Pombriant on October 20, 2014
A number of Salesforce AppExchange partners including Apttus, Kenandy and ServiceMax formed an alliance called the Force United Consortium back in April but I hadn’t had the chance to talk to anyone about it. It’s a cool idea and a way to differentiate a partner that makes good use of the Salesforce1 Platform. I got […]
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By Denis Pombriant on November 20, 2013
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. […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged AppExchange, Apttus, CRM, df13, financialforce.com, Microsoft Office, salesforce, salesforce.com, salesforce1, servicemax |
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 […]
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By Esteban Kolsky on November 13, 2013
If you are like most people out there are you are terrified right now. I mean, after all mobile is eating the world! Right? I mean what is going to happen after we are all mobilified? after we all got mobile devices and wearable and embedded computers and — what… is ESP next? What’s going […]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged customer service, df13, doubledutch, Dreamforce, salesforce, salesforce.com, servicemax
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 |
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 |
By Denis Pombriant on November 16, 2011
There was a guest post on the Forbes Magazine blog last month that I can’t get out of my head: “For Enterprise IT, Time to Move Beyond SAP.” For the record, I am an ERP dilatant — I know about it but don’t follow it with the same passion that I follow CRM. And as far as SAP (NYSE: SAP) […]
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