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Inside the Salesforce Apex language

Salesforce.coms Apex programming language has been hailed by some as a significant milestone in short history of Web on demand applications. But at this point it is still of form of vaporware that hasnt yet been unleashed on the 20,000 AppExchange developers. My colleague Steve Gillmor and I talked to...

Tags: Apex, Parker Harris

Blog posts 2006-10-09

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Chatter: Amplified

Last evening, fellow ZDNet'ers Mike Krigsman, Dion Hinchcliffe, Tom Foremski, Brian Sommer along with fellow Enterprise Advocate Vinnie Mirchandani and I sat down with Parker Harris, co-founder Salesforce.com to get a deep dive into the rationale behind Chatter, what it's really about and where it's going. ...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-19

Dreamforce: Benioff introduces Chatter

At Dreamforce Global Gathering 2009 in San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and technology head Parker Harris show attendees Chatter, a new collaboration and social media tool built for the enterprise. Benioff says the new tool will leverage social-networking models and bring them into a secure and private cloud where...

Tags: Social Media, Marc Benioff, Productivity, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Salesforce CEO chatters about new social media platform

At Dreamforce Global Gathering 2009 in San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and technology head Parker Harris show attendees Chatter, a new collaboration and social media tool built for the enterprise. Benioff says the new tool will leverage social-networking models and bring them into a secure and private cloud where...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Social Media, Marc Benioff, Salesforce, Chatter

Videos 2009-11-18

Future ERP

Brian Sommer's provocative post that juxtaposes SAP's technology thinking around the 'old' and 'new' worlds provides insights into something SAP was talking about last year - the two speed world of ERP. At the back end there is still plenty to do, hardening applications, winkling out recurring bugs...

Tags: Innovation, Salesforce.com Inc., Financial, SAP AG, ERP, Brian Sommer, Brian, S-curve, Cloud Infrastructure, BRP, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Salesforce.com and CODA hook up

Salesforce.com and CODA (via its parent Unit 4 Agresso) are hooking up to create FinancialForce.com. While financial details of the arrangement were not revealed, Salesforce.com is a minority stakeholder in the new company. From the blurbs: The CODA 2go team and products have transferred to FinancialForce.com, which will...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., CODA, FinancialForce.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-30

Salesforce.com: rethinking the database

While attending Fortune's Brainstorm event, several of us took the opportunity to sit down with Parker Harris, Salesforce.com co-founder and EVP technology. To say it was our first outing as Irregulars with the company, Parker was remarkably open and congenial, often straying into territory that would otherwise drive hyper controlling...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Zoho, Database, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-28

Opening the kimono on Salesforce.com's green crystals

Salesforce.com's chief technology guru Parker Harris, speaking at Cloudforce London this week, mapped out the secret sauce that makes the company's multi-tenancy so special. Why suddenly expose details of something it has always previously kept schtum about? by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-04-09

PPoPP 2009 Day 1: Parallel Thinking

The 14th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 2009) and the 15th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-15) opened Monday in Raleigh, NC. Reflecting the growing interdependence of software and hardware the two conferences are being held at the same time in the same...

Tags: Server, Programming, Computer, Development Tools, Productivity, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-02-17

Benioff launches Sites [video]

At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com, announced the company's latest venture. With Force.com Sites, customers can build, host, and allow individual users to customize a public Web page using Force.com technologies. Along with Parker Harris, Salesforce co-founder and executive vice president of...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Video, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-03

Benioff launches Sites

At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com, announced the company's latest venture. With Force.com Sites, customers can build, host, and allow individual users to customize a public Web page using Force.com technologies. Along with Parker Harris, Salesforce co-founder and executive vice president of...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Dreamforce, Salesforce, cloud computing, SaaS, Sites, website, hosting

Videos 2008-11-03

salesforce.com users exposed to phishing scam

In all the excitement over Google and Facebook, my usually eagle-eyed enterprisey colleagues missed that salesforce.com exposed some of its users to a phishing scam. The Washington Post says that: Salesforce.com acknowledged that a recent spate of targeted e-mail virus and phishing attacks against its...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Washington Post Co., Phishing, Sales Force Management, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-11-07

Digging beneath Salesforce.com's platform hype

When Marc Benioff unveiled Salesforce.com's new Force.com branding for its former Apex platform on Monday, it came as something of an anti-climax for the 7,000 Dreamforce delegates crowded in the Moscone conference hall picture by Dan Farber. Is that it, many wondered? A new name â€" the third in the...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-09-19

Dreamforce 07: Salesforce rolls out Visualforce

Marc Benioff took the stage at Moscone Center before an estimated 7,000 salesforce.com adherents from 42 countries to tout a "new force for innovation." After several years of negotiation, the company nabbed the Force.com URL and promptly applied it as the new name to the the salesforce platform formerly Apex....

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Sales Force, Logic, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-17

Reuse, redundancy and the chasm 2.0

Reuse has been a constant and yet elusive goal throughout the history of software. Today its a key part of the argument for adopting SOA, SaaS and Web 2.0. But I have a feeling that people approach it with one of two contrasting mindsets, only one of which is destined...

Tags: SAP, Salesforce.com, Ecosystems, Web 2.0, Marketplaces, Development, mindset

Blog posts 2007-01-16

salesforce.com's Apex language is not the lock-in attempt it appears to be

While I was at Symposium/ITxpo, my colleague Dan Farber was attending salesforce.coms Dreamforce conference where the company announced that its Java/SQL-esque Apex programming language would be opened up for use by customers wanting to use it Apex to customize their salesforce.com applications. When Dan Farber first shared the news with...

Tags: Apex, Salesforce.com Inc.

Blog posts 2006-10-13

Worried SAP rubbishes Salesforce.com's Apex

In an email to selected journalists, SAP has attacked Salesforce.coms newly announced multitenant development language, Apex. In a follow-up interview,Peter Graf, executive vice president for solution marketing at SAP, dismissed Salesforce.com as "a one-trick pony". SAPs line is that enterprise customers will steer clear of Apex because of security...

Tags: Apex, SAP AG

Blog posts 2006-10-13

Salesforce.com down...again

I have been getting reports today from salesforce.com customers about ongoing outages. One customer told me that they haven't had a full week since early January without some disruption of service, ranging from not being able to search and delays in sending email to system outages. Another customer told me...

Tags: Storage, Salesforce.com Inc., outage, database, PM PST, Bruce Francis

Blog posts 2006-02-09

Another outage, but salesforce.com is learning fast

According to TheStreet.com, on-demand CRM vendor Salesforce.com had another outage yesterday: "An internal company memo viewed by TheStreet.com indicates that customers in Europe, Asia Pacific and North America were affected for several hours." Although significantly less embarrassing thanThe new status page will get its first major test Monday...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., outage, system statu

Blog posts 2006-01-06