Salesforce Features
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Apex Code
Create Any Business Logic as a Service
Included with Unlimited Edition; Available for Additional Fee with Platform and Enterprise Editions
- Quickly develop and customize applications on demand
- Create powerful business logic that runs on salesforce.com servers
Apex is the world’s first on-demand programming language, enabling developers to create and run any business logic and application on the Force.com platform. With Winter ’08, developers can extend their success with Apex and create applications more quickly with more data types, verbs, and APIs. For more information on Apex, visit the Apex Developer Network.
Salesforce Content
Publish, share, and find all your content with a revolutionary Web 2.0 service
LIMITED RELEASE; Professional, Enterprise, and Unlimited Editions; Requires an Additional Fee
- Provide fast access to the most relevant content
- Use community feedback to highlight your best quality documents
- Improve collaboration by simplifying content sharing
Salesforce Content is a new on-demand application for sharing and managing documents, presentations, multimedia files, and other business content. By tapping popular Web 2.0 features like full-text search, tagging, subscriptions, and content ratings, Salesforce Content helps users find the exact information they need. And unlike cumbersome legacy document management systems, Salesforce Content is so easy to use that your colleagues will welcome it with open arms.
Salesforce Ideas
Community-Powered Innovation Management
LIMITED RELEASE; Professional, Enterprise, and Unlimited Editions
- Empower your community to contribute new ideas to your business
- Create and lead a direct dialogue with your community
- Provide a forum in which the best ideas bubble up to the top
Salesforce Ideas reinvents the way that organizations source ideas from their communities. The new Salesforce Ideas on-demand application helps companies build their own online communities to collaborate directly with customers, partners, employees, or other constituents in an interactive, online forum. With Salesforce Ideas, companies can build communities as a service, without any of the pain of managing hardware or software infrastructure.
Email Relay
Route Salesforce Emails through Your Own Email Server
This feature is
available in Enterprise and Unlimited Editions.
- Get better email auditing and ensure regulatory compliance
- Provide secure delivery of emails between Salesforce and your mail server
- Enable content filtering and decrease blocking of outbound emails
Spring ’07 provides companies with much greater control over email messages sent from the Salesforce application. With Spring ’07, you can archive emails, append disclaimers, and do content filtering to meet regulatory compliance requirements. When email relaying is activated, Salesforce-generated emails will be delivered by your company’s mail server, not by Salesforce.
Note: To activate this feature, your company’s email administrator must first enable email relaying for your domain. In addition, you must contact salesforce.com customer support to enable email relaying.
Email Approvals
Approve Requests Right from Your Inbox
This feature is available in Enterprise and Unlimited Editions.
- Instantly approve or reject items without leaving your inbox
- Improve communication by adding comments to approvals
With the last release (Winter ’07), salesforce.com pushed the envelope on business process enablement in an on-demand environment with powerful new features for workflow and approvals. Spring ’07 brings additional approval functionality with the ability to approve or reject requests and even add comments by email, an especially useful feature for heavy users of BlackBerries and other mobile email devices.
This feature is disabled by default but can be enabled by the organization’s salesforce.com administrator.
Unlimited Edition Introduction
Unlimited Edition customers benefit from new levels of flexibility that
meet even the most sophisticated requirements. In addition to exclusive
features available only in Unlimited Edition, this package bundles
several add-on features at a cost savings of 50 percent over adding
them separately. Click here for a comprehensive overview of Unlimited Edition
Salesforce Sandbox 
- Develop, test, and train in a replicated environment
- Automatically copy all of your configurations and data
- Package and install selected changes
Resources:
- Why Salesforce Sanbox - Whitepaper (PDF)
- Sandbox Case Study - Charter Communications (PDF)
- Salesforce Sandbox Datasheet (PDF)
Premier Support & Administration
- Increase service levels to 24x7, priority phone queue and more
- Add Salesforce resources and expertise to your team
- Assigned Administrator drives unlimited innovation
Resources:
- Why You Need Premier Support (PPT)
- Salesforce Support Datasheet (PDF)
- Unlimited Edition Datasheet (PDF)
Massive Storage
- Increase storage to 6x Enterprise Edition
- Control your storage utilization rates
- 120 MB per user
Resources:
Unlimited Mobile Access
- Instant Access to your data anytime, anywhere
- Platform for easy customization and development
- Simple wireless management over the air
Resources:
- Introducing AppExchange Mobile (PPT)
- Apex Mobile Case Studies (PPT)
- Unlimited Edition Datasheet (PDF)
Unlimited Applications
- Unlimited tabs
- 2000 custom objects
- Unlimited custom applications
Resources:
Unlimited Custom Tabs
Unlimited Edition now allows 10,000 custom tabs, up from 50 in Winter
’06. Only salesforce.com enables you to customize your on-demand CRM
solution with point-and-click ease. With more than 250 apps available
on the AppExchange and the ability to customize any AppExchange app to
fit your company’s needs, unlimited custom tabs means unlimited ability
to extend your on-demand success beyond CRM across the enterprise.
This is a unlimited edition feature.
Apex Mobile
With Apex Mobile customers can keep their workforce connected and current, whether those
workers are on the road, in the office, or at a prospect or customer
site.Salesforce Sandbox
Ever wish you could take a snapshot of your production Salesforce
environment for training, configuration-testing, or integration-testing
purposes? With the Salesforce Sandbox available in Winter ’06, a single
click is all it takes to create a completely separate instance of your
company's Salesforce database without interrupting users’ everyday
activities.
This feature is available as an enterprise edition add-on and included in unlimited edition.
