Dreamforce 07 Entertainment by Foo Fighters

Posted on July 28, 2007 by Jeff Grosse in Dreamforce, News | Leave a comment

Though the Global Gala entertainment at Dreamforce was reported to be Barenaked Ladies, it’s been changed to Foo Fighters. Either way, the Gala will be a lot of fun. Technorati Tags: salesforce.com, dreamforce

July 26, 2007; The Day Salesforce.com Hits 100 Million Daily Transactions

Posted on July 27, 2007 by Jeff Grosse in News, Predictions | Leave a comment

Thanks to Eric for pointing out to me that yesterday, July 26, 2007 was the day Salesforce crossed the 100 million transaction mark in a single day. That’s a pretty significant number and it will soon be the norm for a weekday total. It looks as though transaction performance isn’t hurting because of it either. Quick Math: 100,072,460 transactions per day = 115.82 every second On May 14, I originally predicted it would happen August 29. Spikes in transactions led me to modify … →

Inline Data Editing Prototype…..Sweet!

Posted on July 26, 2007 by Jeff Grosse in Productivity, Prototype | Leave a comment

Can you imagine how many mouse clicks you can save by being able to edit Salesforce data inline; without hitting the button and refreshing the screen so many times? Inline data editing has long been a desire of a huge number of users. It adds convenience, saves time, and look at the features they’ve thought of already in their prototype that some of us might not have thought of. As you roll your mouse over the detail page of a … →

That New Date Picker Keeps Getting Better

Posted on July 24, 2007 by Jeff Grosse in Productivity, Upgrades | 1 Comment

Just when I thought the new Date Picker in Salesforce.com Summer 07 was super convenient, I learned of the shortcuts they put in. Nice! Now when you click on a date field, you can type shortcuts to auto-fill the date. See some of these examples. Examplesmm-dd = that month and day, this yearmm/dd = that month and day, this yearmm.dd = that month and day, this yearyes = yesterdaytod = todaytom = tomorrowsun = next Sundaymon = next Mondaytue = … →

What’s CRM Like on Your iPhone?

Posted on July 23, 2007 by Jeff Grosse in Competitors, Mobile, Productivity, Tools | Leave a comment

Though I am one who lusts after an iPhone, I’m not one who will run out and get one anytime soon. Author and blogger, Paul Greenberg has opened up a little competition or bakeoff when it comes to CRM apps running on an iPhone. He’s inviting EBSuite, Etelos, HEAP, NetSuite, and Salesforce.com to show off their apps on the iPhone and see who’s best. This should be an interesting one to watch, provided everybody is up for the comparison. While … →

Marc Benioff; CRM Live and the Zune

Posted on July 18, 2007 by Jeff Grosse in Competitors | 1 Comment

Marc Benioff commented recently on some of the details announced about pricing of Microsoft’s delve into hosted, on-demand CRM software, CRM Live. Microsoft announced that they will begin beta this fall with a Professional Edition and Enterprise Edition of CRM Live, available through the web or Outlook. Pricing for PE and EE are $44 and $59 per user, per month respecitvely. That’s lower than Salesforce, but why? Marc Benioff says, “When you have an inferior product you have to have an … →

Sometimes Little Changes Make Me So Happy

Posted on July 17, 2007 by Jeff Grosse in Productivity, Upgrades | 2 Comments

It’s great when something that secretly annoys you is fixed, eliminated, or otherwise changed into something much better. That’s the way I feel about the new date picker coming out with the Summer 07 release of Salesforce next month. It used to be that to pick a date on a date field, you had to click a button which launched a new browser window to pick the date you want. That will soon be no longer. With Summer 07, you … →

Video Peek at Salesforce HQ……..and More

Posted on July 17, 2007 by Jeff Grosse in News | 1 Comment

In one of the poorest productions of video that I’ve seen in awhile, A list blogger, Steve Gillmor put together some interviews he recorded at Software 2007, Web 2.0 Conference, some Salesforce function, and more. Fortunate for you, the walk into HQ is in the first 3 minutes of the video. He’s on his way to see Marc Benioff who appears to be doing a phone interview at the time. I like the Yoda on Marc’s desk. In another bit of useless … →

Summer 07 coming to NA1 on August 4; NA2 and NA3 on August 11

Posted on July 5, 2007 by Jeff Grosse in News, Upgrades | 2 Comments

UPDATE: NA2 and NA3 are being upgraded August 10 from 8 PM PDT until 1 AM. Thank you Lisa and Darcy for the info. I got notice recently that my org of Salesforce, NA1, will be upgraded to the new Summer 07 release on August 3, from 8 PM PDT until 1 AM. If you haven’t seen what’s coming yet in this release, here are some great resources to check out. OverviewFeature detailsAdmin Preview (pdf)Detailed Release Notes (pdf) One of the greatest features … →