By Luke Skywalker in
Strategy
Mar
3
Small cap hell is where you end up in about six months after your IPO, when all the high fives and champagne have receded into a distant memory. Unless your company is big enough. How big is big enough?
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Is XBRL The Key To Escaping Small Cap Hell?
By Luke Skywalker in
Design
Mar
3
There are a plethora of enterprise friendly collaboration platforms to choose from these days, with Yammer, Salesforce, Jive, Bantam Live, Socialcast , and others all vying for marketshare.
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Socialtext 4.0 Launches With Groups, Better Search, And Activity Stream Filtering
By Luke Skywalker in
Architecture
Mar
1
This is a big shout to Tim Inman for building a micro-grant solution on Force.com. As some of you may remember, Tim Inman was a runner-up in one our developer challenges and now he has at it again participating in PayPal X Dev Challenge. In a nutshell, the idea is that…
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A micro-grant solution built on Force.com
By Luke Skywalker in
Strategy
Feb
26
It’s rare when you will see a post in this blog about Saas and its place in the financial markets.
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SaaS Report: Is Salesforce.com Over or Under Valued?
By Luke Skywalker in
Design
Feb
17
Acumen Solutions will build a Salesforce.com app for the Department of Health and Human Services to manage health IT relationships and projects.
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HHS To Manage Stimulus Spending From The Cloud
By Luke Skywalker in
Architecture,
Design,
General,
Strategy
Feb
17
Today, Saleforce takes the wraps off Chatter pilot program. After several months of testing with select customers, it is going into production for this group. We reviewed Chatter with SalesForce’s VP of Corporate Strategy, Bruce Francis and SVP Product Marketing, Kraig Swensrud to find out what all the excitement was about
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Facebook and Twitter: SalesForce.com Offers Social, Real Time Enterprise Tools
By Luke Skywalker in
Development
Feb
11
I posted this over in the Announcements board on the Discussion board, but it occurred to me to try to sweep in others who may not be regular board visitors also. I am the new Technical Program Manager here at salesforce.com, managing many of our programs, including the Discussion boards.
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Code Share participation giveaway!
By Luke Skywalker in
Development
Feb
9
For website application developers, getting any sort of connection to telephones can be a show-stopper. Wireless carriers, which are enormous bureaucracies, can take forever to approve and support the connection. Twilio was founded in 2007 to solve that problem at an affordable price
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Twilio adds SMS text support to its phone-to-Web API
By Luke Skywalker in
Design,
Strategy
Feb
3
The need for innovation in the enterprise does not stop when the economy turns sour. Instead, what we often see is that constraints will invariably lead to creative thinking, which leads to new products and new business processes. We talked with Salesforce.com yesterday about its new Visual Process Manager (VPM), available on the Force.com platform
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Salesforce.com: Cloud-Based DIY Business Applications for Sales and Service
By Luke Skywalker in
Design,
Strategy
Feb
3
2009 was a banner year for Salesforce.com. The enterprise cloud computing company made significant enhancements to its product lineup, reported overall strong earnings , and even launched their own take on realtime enterprise social networking and collaboration, Chatter
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Salesforce Simplifies Creation Of Business Applications With Visual Process Manager