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Impressing Steve With Rapid Business Process Modelling
Aug 23, 2006Or, we love our users because they say it better than us:
"How long did it take me to create a database schema in
Salesforce.com that allowed us to track restricted funding by
Foundation, draw down those funds against specific projects? Wait
there’s more, I also created a report that shows each fund and
it’s balance. But don’t answer yet, I also created a report
of each fund and which projects are pulling money from it, showing how
much each is pulling. Oh, and the Foundation record has UI that lists
all their funding pools and the project record lists all funding pools
that are going toward it.Now how long do you think it took me?
30 minutes
And it’s essentially ready for production. I want to do a
couple cosmetic changes, and I want to add one field to the funding
pool schema. And then I’ll let my users loose on it, adding
historical data and tracking restricted funding moving forward.And I didn’t write a single line of code
This is what rapid business process modeling is all about. This is why
I’m so excited about Salesforce.com for nonprofits. Identify the work
you want to do, spend time thinking about it, and implement it in the
technology." - Steve Andersen
Steve makes a great case for using Salesforce to rapidly model business processes, and as usual, says it better than we could have. -
Salesforce.com on iTunes
Apr 4, 2006Today we officially launched Salesforce.com on iTunes, with over 75 sessions of downloadable audio content. Users will find a wide variety of tracks including customer best practice sessions, roundtable discussions, and presentations by well know thought leaders.
The goal is to connect customers with product experts and peers working on similar business initiatives. With Salesforce.com on iTunes you can browse through a catalog of tracks sorting them by date, topic, or speaker, just like managing your own music library. While many people will choose to listen to these sessions at their desk, you can also download them to your iPod. If you’ve got a long commute or are traveling on business, load a couple up and see what you think.Here are a couple of sample sessions.
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A New Approach to Web Applications
Mar 8, 2005Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications
By Jesse James GarrettThis is a great article breaking down what Google has done with interactive design for their new Google Suggest and Google Maps web applications.
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The Incremental Web
Feb 12, 2005Topix.net Weblog
The Incremental WebWe see a gigantic hole -- an opportunity -- in online search. Search has become the dominant navigational paradigm for goal-directed reference queries. But search is a poor way to stream new developments around a topic.
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The Museum of Media History 2014
Jan 27, 2005This was on Jonathan Schwartz’s Blog the other day. If nothing else it makes you realize how fast things are changing and how hard it is to predict the future 10 years out.
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Winter '05 Keynote - The Future of On-Demand CRM
Jan 27, 2005 -
Brad Boston, Cisco
Jan 27, 2005
Brad Boston, Cisco
Driving Productivity with Intelligent Information Networks
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Ray Lane: The Interent 2014
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Jonathan Schwartz: The Dot.com Bubble was a Proof of Concept
Jan 27, 2005
Jonathan Schwartz is the president and chief operating officer of Sun Microsystems. In this role he is responsible for operations and execution of Sun's day-to-day business including Systems, Software, Global Sales Operations, worldwide manufacturing and purchasing, customer advocacy and worldwide marketing. Prior to this position, Mr. Schwartz served as executive vice president of Sun's software group where he was responsible for the company's software technologies and business. While in this position, he revolutionized Sun's software strategy with the introduction of the Java System, and re-established Sun on the desktop with launch of the Java Desktop System.
This presentation is available in Breeze (27 mins).
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Evolution in Action
Jan 27, 2005
This is among the most popular presentations on CRMSuccess.com, having been viewed more than 25,000 times. Adam Bosworth is truly a visionary and has been a great friend and advisor to salesforce.com.
This presentation is available in Breeze (18 mins).
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The Secret Source of Google's Power
Apr 4, 2004Topix.net Weblog
The Secret Source of Google's PowerMuch is being written about Gmail, Google's new free webmail system. There's something deeper to learn about Google from this product than the initial reaction to the product features, however. Ignore for a moment the observations about Google leapfrogging their competitors with more user value and a new feature or two. Or Google diversifying away from search into other applications; they've been doing that for a while. Or the privacy red herring.
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Enlightenment Via Utility Computing
Sep 16, 2003McNealy: Enlightenment Via Utility Computing
At the SunNetwork Conference in San Francisco, Sun CEO Scott McNealy says utility computing leads to lower costs and allows customers to focus on managing information rather than technology.
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