Make your Salesforce Project More Successful by Inviting a BA to the Party (Or Thinking Like One)


Today I welcome my good friend, Garry Polmateer as a guest blogger at CRMFYI. Garry is not only a Salesforce community rockstar, but he's planned and executed some great Salesforce implementations,

A Little Help from My Friends


In a demonstration of community and collaboration, Mike Gerholdt and I have created a blog post / demo video of utilizing inline Visualforce to display rich text info in standard page layouts without

Chatter-vantage #1 - No Need to Rush the Stage


Salesforce has created a conference attendee experience using Chatter that blows away all other conferences. Their Dreamforce Attendee Portal allows attendees to connect with speakers before, during

I Need You; to Join The Salesforce Channel Community


If you follow me on Twitter, it's hard to miss my regular status updates like,  "21 videos were posted to The Salesforce Channel today," but what's that all about? The Salesforce Channel is a website

Calling All Heroes! You Belong at Dreamforce


Earlier this year, I wrote about being a hero to your users, and the gist of it was that through social media, you can surround yourself with fantastic people who will make you a hero to your users. I

» Big Deals

The Salesforce Buffet Opens – Grab a Table

Posted on by Jeff Grosse in News | Leave a comment

Now seatingIn an interesting press release today, Salesforce announced the opening of a Salesforce.com all you can eat buffet.  First to be seated at the table is Dell, in a new deal which supersedes all previous agreements.

It’s a deal where, for a flat fee, Dell can use as much of Salesforce as it cares to through 2011. Unlimited users, unlimited objects, unlimited storage, etc.  I’m guessing this is the first deal of its kind in the SaaS world.  Imagine what you could do without limits.  I’m kind of drooling right now.

It will be interesting to see who else signs up for this kind of deal.  While there’s a huge price to be paid for this kind of buffet, somebody is obviously doing the math at Dell and has the ROI.  They said it’s the biggest deal Salesforce has ever inked.  Before this, the biggest was the Citigroup deal last November.

Obviously there’s a premium price to be paid for a buffet like this, but I’m very curious to watch and hear what Dell does with it.  The must have some pretty big plans underway if they’re investing this heavily.  We’re sure to find out more in November as Michael Dell is a keynote at Dreamforce 08.