Monthly Archives: November 2008

Success in the Cloud – Highlights Video of Dreamforce 08

Posted on November 21, 2008 by Jeff Grosse in News | 2 Comments

I put together a short highlights video of this year’s Dreamforce event in San Francisco. Thanks to other photo contributors Scott Barlow, Matt (mdmkd), Craig Villamor, Mike Leach, and Michael Krigsman for your additional great shots.

Meet the Experts – Pixel Heads interview with Peter Coffee

Posted on November 21, 2008 by Jeff Grosse in Force.com | 4 Comments

Marcelo Lewin, of the Pixel Heads Network recently posted an interview with Peter Coffee, platform evangelist for Salesforce.com.  Pixel Heads specializes in videos, blogs, and podcasts aimed at entertaining, informing, and teaching digital content authors.   An interesting point Coffee brings up in the interview is the broad use of the term “platform” today.  He helps differentiate the requirements of scaling an application built on the Force.com platform versus on other platforms such as Facebook.  Some application developers are now finding … →

Salesforce.com CEO, Marc Benioff Earns a “Bozo?”

Posted on November 17, 2008 by Jeff Grosse in AppExchange, Competitors, Force.com, Integration, Tools | 2 Comments

I found it interesting to read Bill Snyder of Computerworld put Salesforce.com CEO, Marc Benioff in what Snyder calls, “our Bozo Hall of Fame.”  He walks the reader through the drama that unfurled about a year ago when Salesforce.com began some type of talks with Zoho’s CEO, Sridhar Vembu about bringing the Zoho productivity suite to the Salesforce AppExchange.  Snyder attributes the “award” to Benioff for how the whole process went down and eventually fizzled to nothing.  What adds to the … →

Salesforce Admin Certification Tips to Help the Masses

Posted on November 13, 2008 by Jeff Grosse in News | 15 Comments

I came across two interesting sites today.  Anyone who is interested in taking the certification exam on being a Salesforce administrator should check them out.   The one site is ForceCertified.com where you can find some great information and exercises to get yourself prepared for the certification exam.  They’ve got many examples of concepts and topics that are tested on.  ForceCertified then led me to the second site, called ProProfsQuizSchool where ForceCertified created a sample 15 question, timed sample exam to … →

Relive Dreamforce 08 in the Comfort of Your Home or Office

Posted on November 11, 2008 by Jeff Grosse in Dreamforce, Force.com, Productivity, Social Networking | Leave a comment

Salesforce has provided the Dreamforce 08 breakout sessions in record time this year.  Kudos to Erica Kuhl and her web services team at Salesforce tor getting them up so quickly. Head on over to the Salesforce.com Community site and check out all the sessions you wanted to attend but couldn’t get to.  This year they have much better packaging of the content as the audio is synced to all the slides shown in the session.  Now you’ll see everything you … →

It’s Time to Set Your Sights on Sites

Posted on November 11, 2008 by Jeff Grosse in Customization, Force.com | Leave a comment

One of the key messages from Dreamforce 08 was the coming ability to build what are called Force.com Sites.  These sites are websites you can build to extend the reach of CRM and your own built apps on the Force.com platform to people who don’t use Salesforce.  This extends the your ability to gather data and build some great apps both on public websites and corporate portals that leverage your data and applications in Salesforce. Monday night at Dreamforce, the … →

Force.com Workbook Available in the Immersion Lab

Posted on November 2, 2008 by Jeff Grosse in Customization, Dreamforce, Force.com, Training | 2 Comments

Stop by the Immersion Lab upstairs to get your own copy of the Force.com Workbook. It’s a great book of 13 tutorials to build Force.com apps in just 30 minutes. Need it today or not, stop by and take one home. You’ll be amazed what you cab do. The online version can be downloaded here.