Tag Archives: Force.Com

January 4, 2013 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Force.com and the Uber-Democratization of Programming

By Ben Kepes

In the last few weeks I’ve started to riff on James Govenor’s meme, that of developers becoming the new kingmakers. I recently wrote a post discussing what I saw happening with Salesforce – how the combination of force.com and Heroku was creating a real gravity pull for developers and that

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December 13, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Salesforce Acquires Prior Knowledge

By Ben Kepes

A couple of weeks ago salesforce announced that it has acquired predictive analytics company Prior Knowledge. The announcement came on the day before Thanksgiving and hence was little reported – interestingly the Prior Knowledge team moves quickly to shut down the API for their public product, Veritable, as well as

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October 17, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Netsuite Introduces Billing and Subscription Service

By Ben Kepes

At the NetSuite SuiteWorld conference held earlier this year, CEO Zach Nelson announced that the company would begin to provide some billing and subscription functionality into their platform. Billing in the services based world is an immense nightmare, others have delved into intricate detail of the reasons why this is

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September 11, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

FinancialForce 2012 Release–Delivering a Loosely Coupled Set of Solutions

By Ben Kepes

Nicely timed to coincide with next week’s DreamForce conference comes the summer 2012 release from FinancialForce, the cloud accounting company that is both part owned by Salesforce, and built upon the force.com platform. While product announcements tend to be a little ho-hum, this one is interesting since it comes from

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August 6, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Allena Aims to Deliver Plain English BI Insights for Salesforce Users

By Ben Kepes

Recently I received an email from Saqib Waqar, CEO of Allena, an interesting new vendor in the “plain English BI” space. Waqar comes from an ERP background having created custom ERP solutions for several customers. Waqar made contact after seeing content I’d written about two other BI players, YouCalc (eventually

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September 1, 2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Force.com and Chatter Score a Coup – Hook Workday

By Ben Kepes

Update – Both Infor and Concur have similar deals announcing today as well – details to come Update #2 – I spent time with Workday during the event to get a deeper understanding of what the force.com part of this deal actually means. Essentially Workday will use force.com for customers

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August 22, 2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Dreamforce 2011–A Look Ahead, and a Review of Last Year’s Predictions

By Ben Kepes

Last year was the first time I attended salesforce’s DreamForce global conference (at least in person). DreamForce is a pretty intense event – tens of thousands of people, the entire Moscone center and most hotels and hospitality establishments in the vicinity are fully booked to cater for the multitude of

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July 24, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Rollbase Rolls Options for Salesforce Users

By Ben Kepes

Cross posted from ReadWriteWeb One comment I hear regularly from Salesforce.com users (or potential users) are the concerns around the price, and lack of flexibility around pricing, of the Salesforce.com solution. It’s an issue that I predicted would see some movement at Dreamforce last year, but one that Salesforce.com has been mostly

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July 8, 2011 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Talking PaaS with Byron Sebastian from Heroku/salesforce

By Ben Kepes

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post that garnered a fair amount of attention. In the post I talked about where I see PaaS developing and suggested that there would be a clear split between what I’ve called infrastructure PaaS (iPaaS) and application PaaS (aPaaS). It’s a concept

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June 14, 2011 Posted in Business 9 Comments

On the Battle Lines of PaaS–The Future is Bifurcated

By Ben Kepes

Friend and one-time colleague Krishnan Subramanian posted recently his view of the different ways PaaS products can be differentiated. Very briefly, Krish classed products in three distinct categories; Traditional PaaS models (push your app to the PaaS and all the underlying stuff is taken care of). Examples – Heroku, Google

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