When InformationWeek identified “Top 10 CIO Issues for 2009,” I was more than happy to see “Customer-Facing Innovation” as #1. Increasingly, that’s what we do here, with capabilities like Force.com Sites complementing applications like Ideas . Then I saw #2 on the list: “Attacking the 80/20 Ratio,” shifting costs away from the maintenance of undifferentiating technology and into advantage-creating innovation .
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Six for ‘Nine
Now I will be the first to admit that I am still a beginner when it comes to the Force.com platform, and some of the smart optimizations that take place behind the scenes. I was excited when I came across one such example the other day when I was working with a client, where we implemented a pretty complex wizard
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Wizards and Controllers — who needs a magic wand?
We are happy to announce that the official Force.com Sites Pilot Program will start with the Spring 09 Release. We have worked with 20+ partners and customers to show case Force.com Sites at Dreamforce 08. Many of them are already live with their Sites
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Force.com Sites Pilot Program
The Crunchies, a competition and award ceremony co-hosted by GigaOm, VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider, and TechCrunch, has Force.com as a finalist in the Best Enterprise category (together with Amazon, Google, Yammer and Zoho). You can visit the Crunchies website to vote, or use this handy little badge: It’s fantastic to see the Force.com cloud computing platform in the enterprise category – the speed with which everyone is moving to the cloud is phenomenal. (If you’re new to our platform, check out the Core Resources set of articles—they give a great birds-eye view of the enterprise features…)
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Force.com is a finalist at The Crunchies – cast your vote!
I flew down to Colorado a couple weeks ago to help out at the Denver stop on the Salesforce.com Success Tour. These are a series of one-day events targetted at Salesforce.com prospects and customers
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A look at one of the Salesforce Success Tours
Does your company’s business process involve filling out PDF forms? Perhaps something like IRS Form W-4 ? If so, you may be interested to learn that in addition to creating PDF documents from scratch , you can also use Visualforce and Apex to automate the process of populating third-party PDF forms
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Use Visualforce and Apex to Populate PDF Forms
Over December we’ve published ten top 10 lists of the top products of 2008 . We intend to open these lists up for public voting in 2009, to tap into the wisdom of the intelligent crowd that reads our site. But for now, you’ll have to make do with the choices of us here at ReadWriteWeb.
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Top 100 Products of 2008
As a program update, we are happy to announce that submissions for the Force.com Sites Developer Challenge is officially opened.
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Developer Challenge Update
You probably know that a Visualforce Page can be easily converted to a PDF (if not, check out Quote2PDF ), but did know Visualforce can also generate a Microsoft Excel Worksheet? By simply modifying the ContentType attribute on the <apex:page> tag, your Visualforce code will automatically generate an Excel document
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Visualforce to Excel
Every year we do a review of the top Internet companies, to identify the ones that had the biggest impact. Last week we announced that Apple was our choice for Best BigCo of 2008 . Today we’re announcing Best LittleCo and Most Promising Company , as selected by the ReadWriteWeb writers.
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Best LittleCo of 2008 & Most Promising for 2009
