CRM and social networking...
I was quoted in Computing the other week making somewhat unsupportive remarks about the CRM vendor’s attempts to harness social networking. In essence my feelings are that companies need to understand the impact of social networking rather than concern themselves about taming it.
Calling Apex Web Services from PHP
Apex Code can be exposed as a Web Service and made available outside of your Salesforce environment (e.g. from a PHP page). This approach essentially lets you build a personal API into your Salesforce org and eliminates the need for calling...
Read more about Calling Apex Web Services from PHP...Sequoia Capital Meeting
There's a lot of talk today about a meeting held earlier this week at Sequoia Capital, Appirio's lead backer, with the CEOs of their portfolio companies. The headlines grab your attention: Sequoia has emergency meeting, Sequoia sounds the alarm, ...
Read more about Sequoia Capital Meeting...Are Enterprise Mashups a Viable Option for Wall St
In a pragmatic new article for Wall Street and Technology entitled Mashups Slowly Gain Traction on Wall Street, Melanie Rodier provides an overview of how a growing number of financial firms have started turning to mashups to save money and improve...
Read more about Are Enterprise Mashups a Viable Option for Wall Street?...Cross Salesforce.com and Amazon S3?
You get Appirio Cloud Storage for Salesforce.com, a new SaaS offering from Appirio that taps Amazon S3 to extend the storage capabilities of Salesforce.com. (We toyed with calling it SalAmaForce3 but didn't really see that...
Read more about Cross Salesforce.com and Amazon S3?...Salesforce and Google Apps
The announcement of Salesforce for Google Apps has again raised questions about why Google hasn’t been successful in getting major corporations to widely deploy its Web-based productivity applications, particularly the Google Apps Premier...
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Today we're excited to announce Google Ventures, Google's new venture capital fund. This is Google's effort to take advantage of our resources to support innovation and encourage promising new technology companies. By borrowing the best practices...
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