Tag Archives: chatter

August 13, 2012 Posted in Business 6 Comments

Salesforce Launches Salesforce Communities

By Ben Kepes

Salesforce is this morning announcing a new product, Chatter Salesforce Communities, that aims to take the engagement aspects of its social tool Chatter out to specific verticals within organizations. Chatter SalesforceCommunities allows an organization to set up a specific community quickly – as an example it could be used to create

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May 21, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Chatter Messenger – Real-Time Synchronicity

By Ben Kepes

Note – this post was embargoed until tomorrow morning but alas (and again) that embargo was broken by others. Since it was, I’m releasing the post early… but not happily. About the time you read this, salesforce CEO Marc Benioff [note – it will not be Benioff on stage but rather

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April 11, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

On the Modern (Social) Enterprise with John Wookey

By Ben Kepes

Recently I had the opportunity to spend some time talking with John Wookey, one of the most seasoned software industry execs that folks outside of enterprise land will never have heard of. Wookey has an impressive history – formerly at Oracle, then poached by SAP to run their on-demand efforts

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May 22, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Toyota Chatter–to Salesforce it Matters

By Ben Kepes

News off the wire today that Salesforce.com and Toyota have formed a “strategic alliance” that will see Toyota create a private social network for car owners built on top of Chatter. First some detail of the deal, according to the release; Toyota Friend will be a private social network that

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September 8, 2010 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Chatter Goes Mobile – Questions About Adoption Still Remain

By Ben Kepes

Salesforce is announcing in London this morning that Chatter (more here) is available as mobile applications… kind of. In true Marc Benioff fashion, salesforce is pre-announcing a host of mobile apps that will launch between now and early 2011 for iPhone/iPad, BlackBerry and Android devices. Specifically salesforce is advising that:

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July 12, 2010 Posted in Business 1 Comment

The Internet of Things, and The Real Time Web

By Ben Kepes

Both the Internet of Things and the Real Time Web are themes more usually covered by our friends over at ReadWriteWeb. However there is an interesting intersect between these two themes and the stuff that we’re more accustomed to writing about. First some definitions – the Internet of things refers to extending the Internet to objects and locations in the real world – a move, if you will, from connected computers, to connected… everything.

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June 22, 2010 Posted in enterprise, Product reviews 4 Comments

Salesforce Chatter goes into GA. No Hiding Now Marc!

By Ben Kepes

I’ve always been partly in awe and partly dubious about the way Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff gives… “aspirational” product announcements. On one level, it’s great to get people thinking and envisioning a future, while on another vaporware is just that – unobtainable and frustrating. Just look at his quote about Chatter: Salesforce Chatter is the [...]

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