dreamfactory Resources on ZDNet

Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads

ZDNet Resources

Siebel 2.0: The end of Salesforce.com: Siebel 2.0: The end of Salesforce.comI guess I'm not part of the 90%My company uses Siebel. It may be good for selling refrigerators, but it it HARDLY even ADEQUATE for complex, multi-month rollout cycles of IT gear, software and services.I'd be better off with post-it notes and Lotus 1-2-3...; Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Sales force management, Enterprise software, DreamFactory, CRM, SFDC, Salesforce.com Inc., Apex, Siebel Systems Inc., sf.com; Discussion threads 2007-05-23
Racing for The Cliff -- Salesforce.com and The Looming Competitive Market: Racing for The Cliff -- Salesforce.com and The Looming Competitive MarketIt's all quite insaneI've used them all. Salesforce, Siebel, Oracle and they all suffer from trying to be all things to all companies. Apps that fit your workflow can be pretty simple. Complexity leads to feature bloat,...; Tags: Sales force management, software-as-a-service, Salesforce.com AppExchange, SFDC, Salesforce.com Inc., DreamFactory, mashup, SAP AG; Discussion threads 2007-02-22
dreamfactory - a Rich Internet Application platform for Salesforce.com: When I talk about Rich Internet Applications is usually something around what Microsoft or Adobe have done or OpenLaszlos open source RIA solution. But I recently got a tour of DreamFactory which is a new kind of Rich Internet Application platform that is focused on Salesforce.com (it also runs...; Tags: Rich Internet Applications, DreamFactory, Salesforce.com, Salesforce.com Inc.; Blog posts 2007-02-07
AJAX and the richer Internet application: The upcoming launch of Macromedia's Flex Builder development tool is a timely reminder that the AJAX crowd didn't invent the idea of Rich Internet Applications RIAs. Flex redeems Macromedia's ubiquitous Flash browser plug-in, which earned notoriety as the originator of all those useless and highly annoying 'skip intro' pages built...; Tags: AJAX, DreamFactory; Blog posts 2005-10-10

Additional Resources

Web Seminar Series: Quote to Contract Automation for Salesforce: Today, manually creating quotes and contracts inside your Salesforce.com system can slow down your sales cycle if you rely on nothing more than copying and pasting contact information, pricing, opportunity data and product information for every deal. Learn how to save time in your sales cycle and generate more revenue...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Web, Sales Cycle, Automation, EchoSign, Sales Force Management, Sales Tools, Sales Strategy, Channel Management, Sales, Marketing; Webcasts 2007-12-05

SaaS in 2007: Composition instead of integration: While the Web 2.0 crowd get excited about the superficial appeal of simple mashups, SaaS vendors have been quietly equipping users with do-it-yourself composite application tools that help them get their jobs done faster and better. My prediction is that 2007 is going to see an explosion of these DIY...; Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), composition, DIY enterprise mashup, tool, integration, software-as-a-service; Blog posts 2006-12-22
Interview with salesforce.com pt 1: AppExchange and the Web Office: Update: Part two of the interview is now available, entitled How Salesforce has evolved (over 20 versions) to be a Web Office platform. This week I spoke to Kendall Collins, vice president of marketing at Salesforce.com, about the latest "Summer '06" release of salesforce.com. But the most interesting topic of...; Tags: Kendall, Salesforce.com AppExchange, Salesforce.com Inc., Web; Blog posts 2006-07-19
Salesforce.com launches AppExchange OEM: Salesforce.com continues to build out its application ecosystem with an OEM Edition of AppExchange. For $25 per user per month, developers can create and deliver on demand applications built on the Salesforce.com platform and infrastructure. The OEM Edition excludes Salesforce.com's CRM applications, and AppExchange OEM Edition developers are responsible for...; Tags: Edition, Salesforce.com Inc., OEM; Blog posts 2006-05-24
Who will Salesforce.com buy next?: Now that on-demand poster child Salesforce.com has grown up a little by scoring its first acquisition, it's only natural to begin speculating who's going to be next on its shopping list. But first let's pause to analyse the Sendia deal in a little more detail. Notice,...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sendia, Salesforce.com AppExchange; Blog posts 2006-04-12
Benioff: Making AppExchange work for developers: Salesforce.com's founder and CEO Marc Benioff told me when we met last week that its newly launched AppExchange could become an even bigger 'killer app' for the company than its trademark CRM application — because of its ability to act as a platform, either for enterprises or...; Tags: Salesforce.com AppExchange; Blog posts 2006-02-03
Fixing bugs, the on-demand way: It's not just product updates that come faster with on-demand applications. Bugs get fixed fast, sometimes in less time than you'd spend just holding to get through to tech support at on-premises vendors. Here's a story from Bill Appleton, CTO of DreamFactory, which just released an AppForce-hosted collaboration tool called...; Tags: on-demand; Blog posts 2005-10-27
The Great Disruptive Start-Ups Search, Part 1: My post from yesterday, wondering where are the disruptive start-ups in Web 2.0, caught the attention of a number of people. So I'm going to continue my search for disruptive start-ups here on ZDNet and see what comes up. Firstly a 9rules Network buddy, Mike Rundle at BusinessLogs, made...; Tags: Web 2.0, DreamFactory Software, disruptive start-up; Blog posts 2005-10-20
AJAX and the richer Internet application: AJAX and the richer Internet applicationDon't forget LaszloLaszlo Systems have an OpenSource application server and an IDE in Elclise build by IBM. Laszlo also creates flash applications. Laszlo has also been around longer than Flex. Not saying Flex is bad...but it's $$$I think you've lost sight of what 'AJAX' isAJAX...; Tags: Internet application, Laszlo Systems Inc., Internet, AJAX; Discussion threads 2005-10-10
Start-up dreamfactory conjures up new tools: Start-up DreamFactory conjures up new toolsYeah rightThis is nothing new, macromedia flash can serve information and a fancy interface at the same time with use of XML. Im tired of seeing XML heralded as the be all of data manipulation/presentation. Dreamworks refutes itself by stating that their product...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, XML, tool, DreamWorks SKG; Discussion threads 2004-01-12