The AppExchange Blog
The AppExchange Blog
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Announcing Force.com Checkout: Buy AppExchange Apps in Clicks
Dec 10, 2008Exciting news! Starting this week, customers and partners can buy and sell AppExchange apps online anytime, anywhere, from a browser.
On Monday, we officially launched Force.com Checkout to a standing-room only audience at our Cloudforce Event in New York. With Checkout, it is easier than ever for customers to do business with salesforce.com and our partners. Customers now have a "one stop shop" where you can trial, pay for, start using, and manage subscriptions of Salesforce CRM and some of your favorite AppExchange partner apps.
Here is what CRM Buyer had to say:
“On Monday, Salesforce.com announced some of the remaining pieces of the grand puzzle when it introduced Checkout…a necessary component that, though its focus is financial rather than technical, enables the technology to fully function. It appears to me that with Checkout, Salesforce now has deployed a new closed-loop business process for cloud computing that starts with development, moves through distribution and sales, and culminates in the transaction and payment….This is cool stuff.”
All Checkout partner applications are natively built and run on Force.com, which means you can rest assured they have the same security, reliability, and performance of applications from salesforce.com. And it's not just CRM applications. The majority of Checkout apps and new AppExchange apps are extending the SaaS model beyond just your sales, marketing, and customer service functions to other important areas in your company: human resources, IT, finance, operations, you name it. Here is the full list:
- Financials and accounting ERP from CODA
- Non-profit constituent relationship management from Convio
- Fleet management solutions from Datasul
- Order management ERP solutions from Glovia, a subsidiary of Fujitsu
- Staffing solutions from Jobscience
- Mobile expense reporting from Model Metrics
- Recruiting from Riptide
- Real estate management from Riptide
- Customer reference tracking from Riptide
- Risk management from StakeWare
- Financial relationship management from StraightThrough
- Productivity tools from Appirio
- Compensation management from Callidus
- Salesforce CRM administrator tools from DrivEnable
Existing customers, you can start using Checkout today from your dropdown menu inside the app. Everyone else, learn more here.
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Congratulations to the 2008 Winners of the ResponseAwards!
Dec 4, 2008
Congratulations from all of us on the AppExchange team to Riptide, ReachForce, and OnDialog, the three AppExchange partners who have been named as winners of the 2008 ResponseAwards based on having the fastest response times to web leads from AppExchange. They were selected by InsideSales.com, another AppExchange partner, from the over one hundred partners at Dreamforce '08 last month.
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Social meets enterprise: Announcing Force.com for Facebook
Nov 4, 2008
Yesterday, we made history.
During the opening platform keynote at Dreamforce 08, Marc Benioff, Chairman, CEO, and Founder of salesforce.com, and Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, unveiled Force.com for Facebook, a new partnership between Facebook and salesforce.com that allows Facebook developers to build and run their apps on the Force.com enterprise cloud. Force.com for Facebook is made possible by our new Force.com Sites technology, which allows customers and partners to publish any Force.com app to any website, whether its their intranet, public website, or even Facebook and other containers.
Directly from within Apex Code, developers can easily call out to the Facebook APIs, make FQL queries for social graph data, and generate FBML/XFBML. For the first time, Facebook developers can take full advantage of salesforce.com's global trusted infrastructure that takes care of everything from data center and hardware to database, application, operations, and enterprise services like security, sharing, permissions, and workflow. We want developers to focus on great ideas and innovation, not infrastructure.
This is exciting news for everyone. Our customers want to be where their customers are, and increasingly, their customers are spending time on Facebook. salesforce.com customers now have a new and powerful way for viral distribution and end-user engagement like never before. Facebook developers now have a faster, more complete, and lower risk model than ever before-- not to mention the possibilities around accessing new audiences and business models beyond traditional ads. Last but certainly not least, Facebook users will enjoy a whole new class of business applications integrated as part of their Facebook experience.
To learn more and start developing now, click here
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Vote for our panels for South by Southwest 2009!
Aug 13, 2008
Exciting news -- a few of us at salesforce.com have been nominated to speak on panels and sessions in the Interactive Festival at South by Southwest 2009, which features the coolest new media technologies.
In the spirit of SXSW, conference organizers have opened up determining the agenda to the community. Community votes count for 30% of the decision on which talks get accepted, so vote today and help spread the word! Here are my two:
• Social Networking for Any Age: From Super-Pokes to Selling
Social networking sites differentiate themselves by targeting everything from age groups such as pre-teens to personal interests like music. What happens as your users age? How do you stay relevant? Understand the evolution of sites, on sites, and across sites from leaders of the world's most prominent social networking services. http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/1611• What I Learned in 18 Months Running Faceforce
What happens when you combine THE social platform - Facebook - with THE enterprise cloud computing platform from salesforce.com? What does the future of computing look like as the lines blur between business and consumer apps? Learn about the massive opportunity at the intersection of this unlikely marriage. Faceforce founder Clara Shih tells all. http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/1604And two more from Kingsley and Adam, who head Successforce and developer evangelism respectively :)
• Surprise - You Have a Community!!!
• Web as Platform: Is Your Cloud Any Good?Vote now!
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Cool new AppExchange app bridges voice, text, and Salesforce
Jun 17, 2008Big kudos to Ribbit for their newly launched application that converts voicemail and memos to text and associates it to leads and contacts. They ran a very successful beta with over 75 salesforce.com customers, and the word on the street is that people love Ribbit because it saves time and automatically syncs up phone activity with workflow inside Salesforce.
Check out their listing on the AppExchange!
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Videocast from SIIA Netgain Panel, "Revelation or Revolution: Putting Users in Control with Social Media"
Jun 17, 2008Here is the videocast from the "Revelation or Revolution: Putting Users in Control with Social Media" panel at the SIIA Netgain Conference, held at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco on May 18-19, 2008. The panel was moderated by Teri Mendelsohn (President, Mendelsohn Consulting) and featured Dave McClure (Entrepreneur and Blogger), Geoffrey Hyatt (Founder and CEO, Contact Networks), Justin Kestelyn (Sr Director, OTN, Oracle), and myself. We talked about use of social media (such as blogs) by businesses. So this is a blog post about blogging. Very meta.
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Big wins for BigMachines
May 14, 2008Congrats to popular AppExchange ISV BigMachines for three big recent customer wins in the software segment with Accela, Dexter + Chaney, and Xactly!
BigMachines CPP (Configure, Price, Propose), which is fully integrated with Salesforce, provides advanced product configuration, quote generation, and reporting capabilities for sales teams.
Check out our customer showcase for additional success stories from BigMachines, for example this one from AMICAS.
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Teaming up with Google to deliver the ultimate On Demand apps
Apr 14, 2008We are excited to announce a new partnership with Google that will help you get even more out of your on-demand applications -- both CRM and beyond. Today, we launched Salesforce for Google Apps, which combines the power of Salesforce CRM with the Google applications many of us are already using, including Gmail, Calendar, Google Talk, Documents & Spreadsheets, and Presentation in a seamlessly integrated, affordable, and 100% on-demand new offering.
At the same time, we have unveiled a new "Google" category on AppExchange which already features ten applications, and will undoubtedly grow as more developers build joint applications on the Force.com and Google platforms-as-a-service.
When you are running a business, you have better things to worry about than manually syncing unwieldy Excel spreadsheets and trying to keep track of different versions of Powerpoint email attachments. With Salesforce for Google Apps and the complementary set of applications in the new Google category on AppExchange, all of your organization's critical information and communication data are now fully and automatically synced on-demand, accessible from any browser on any device. This is exciting news for Salesforce customers and Google users -- the two biggest on-demand companies in the world coming together for the End of Software and the End of Office!
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Not quite AppExchange
Apr 10, 2008Yesterday Google unveiled App Engine and App Gallery, which some bloggers have likened to AppExchange. But it's really quite different.
First, what is App Engine? Like Force.com, it is a web app development platform-as-a-service. App Gallery is the directory for sharing apps built on the App Engine.
There are two important distinctions. First, the platform and apps at least right now are focused around the Consumer Web, for example games, news, finance, sports, etc. Second, as shown in this Youtube clip, App Engine development is more focused on code-driven development.
Force.com gives application developers a choice of code or clicks (or both) to build, customize, and integrate. App Engine fills an important gap for building, hosting and sharing consumer web apps - and we expect to see that across App Engine and AppExchange, more and more people around the world will be able to make their personal and professional lives easier with platforms-as-a-service and generally the On-Demand model.
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Six popular AppExchange solutions sweep Beagle Research Group 2008 Awards
Apr 9, 2008Kudos to AppExchange partners Firepond (quoting & configuration), InsideView (sales intelligence), LucidEra (analytics), Marketo (marketing automation), TerrAlign (mapping and territory planning), and Verticals onDemand (industry customization templates for Salesforce CRM) for sweeping six of seven of this year's coveted Beagle Research Group 2008 WizKids Awards that showcase "some of the brightest emerging companies in front office computing."
This is well-deserved validation for some of our most popular AppExchange solutions, as well as wonderful proof that AppExchange is the authoritative one-stop shop for SaaS applications.
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