Create Any User Interface as a Service – Now Generally Available      
Group, Professional, Enterprise, Unlimited, and Developer Editions

• Customize the user interface of any Salesforce application
• Build new user interfaces and experiences for custom applications
• Design your own wizards

A breakthrough for the Force.com platform, Visualforce is a new technology for developing powerful user interfaces (UIs) that can be used to enhance the standard Salesforce applications or to create custom applications. Visualforce includes all the resources developers need to build rich, interactive applications and user experiences for a variety of audiences, applications, and devices.

Convert Any Visualforce Page to PDF
Group, Professional, Enterprise, Unlimited, and Developer Editions

• Deliver print-optimized documents with a single click 

With Visualforce, you can weave together information from several objects into a single screen. For example, imagine that a sales rep needs to generate a quote in PDF format that includes information from the account, contact, quote (custom object), quote line items (custom object), and product objects. With Pages to PDF, you can create a Visualforce page that formats all this information appropriately and binds the page to a button in the UI. This button converts the page into a PDF document or leverages Apex to automatically attach the page to a record or send it in an email.

Note: Automatically visible to all users. No setup required.

Synch Recent Work in Salesforce to Users’ Mobile Devices for Immediate Access
Professional, Enterprise, and Unlimited Editions

• Display recently accessed records on mobile devices
• Define how records are displayed 

With Summer ’08, any records a user recently accessed, both from both standard and custom objects, are available on that user’s mobile device. Users can manage their settings to enable or disable the recent-item display and define the maximum number of recent items to be displayed.

Note: Not automatically visible. Feature is enabled, but requires some setup.

Real-Time Document Collaboration
All Editions

• Create and collaborate on documents in real time
• Attach Web-based documents to records in Salesforce

It’s the kind of easy collaboration everyone in the business world needs: creating and editing Web-based documents, spreadsheets, and presentations hand-in-hand with your colleagues, partners, and customers. Everyone can access and edit the documents together, in real time—no more mailing attachments or worrying about different versions floating around. With real-time collaboration finally a reality with Salesforce and Google Docs, teams can work together seamlessly—the way you always wanted.

Instant Messaging From Within Salesforce
All Editions

• Exchange instant messages with colleagues while reviewing CRM data
• Save time by not toggling back and forth between applications

With the addition of Google Talk, real-time communication for your internal sales teams or customer-facing support teams can be part of your Salesforce solution. Your teams can collaborate during sales calls, when servicing customer support issues, or while coordinating with partners—all without ever leaving Salesforce. Salesforce and Google Talk is also a great way for users to collaborate on creating CRM data in Salesforce: Your users can send instant messages to each other while reviewing contact or opportunity data and quickly coordinate changes or next steps.

Flexibility and Ease of Use for Your Managed Packages
All Editions

• Prevent installation of outdated packages
• Delete private Apex classes and triggers

As part of Summer ’08, Managed Package Versioning lets you can guarantee that upgrades are deployed automatically with each new release of your package. You can bundle any solution components or a set of related apps with your managed package and prevent customers from installing older packages.

Protection Against Unauthorized Data Exports
All Editions

• Prompts users to solve challenge to ensure a person—not a computer—is requesting a download
• Uses industry-leading service reCAPTCHA

A |CAPTCHA is a type of challenge-response test that ensures that the response is not generated by a computer. Such challenges can prevent data from being exported in response to requests from infected computers (bots), even if your computers are compromised. When users attempt to export data or use URLs to fetch CSV files of Salesforce data, they must pass a CAPTCHA test (similar to those used by Google or Ticketmaster) to ensure that a real person is initiating the download.

Dynamic and Flexible Programming with Apex Code
Enterprise, Unlimited, and Developer Editions

• Retrieve and evaluate application customizations
• Inspect and programmatically enforce user permissions

When you develop CRM extensions and custom applications, flexible operations that support the dynamic nature of end-user interactions can be an advantage. For example, you may want to implement a Visualforce page that renders based on user-level access and dynamically enforces application permissions. With the Apex Describe feature in Summer ’08, you can build generic and flexible processes that use the Describe methods to dynamically determine runtime behavior.

More Point-and-Click Power to Customize Your Business Logic and User Experience
All Editions

• Take data calculations to the next level

 

• Bring relevant related information to your users

Administrators and developers can deliver more powerful and sophisticated business functionality with clicks, not code. With Cross-Object Formulas, you can incorporate merge fields from parent records for calculation and display. With the easy-to-use field browser, you can insert fields from objects that are related via master-detail or lookup relationships—even across multiple levels. The result is formulas with dramatically increased flexibility to fully leverage the power of your relational data model.

Find the Best Content from Every Corner of the World

      
• Provide access to content in up to 15 languages

 

• Serve different user groups in their languages of choice

In today’s global economy, even the smallest companies need to do business in different parts of the world. With global availability of the Salesforce Content solution, you can collaborate with internal users, partners, and customers worldwide, in their local languages.