Tag Archives: Salesforce Chatter

April 9, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Salesforce Goes All In on Mobile App Development

By Ben Kepes

Over the past twelve months or so, Salesforce has extended its existing story around the social enterprise to strongly articulate its opinion that the future of the enterprise lies in a mobile-enabled workforce. The company is today announcing the next step in that progression with the announcement of a new

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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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August 28, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Indicee Launches Analytics for Chatter

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been using Salesforce Chatter for a few years now, I’ve also used other so-called enterprise social tools – Yammer and Socialcast for instance. While these tools are useful for small teams directly engaged in projects, it has always struck me that there is a lot of value left on

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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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March 15, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Salesforce Broadens Both Down and Outwards with Rypple and Site.com

By Ben Kepes

I’m not in San Francisco for Salesforce’s CloudForce event, I decided to come directly home after SXSW instead. Rather I’m watching the live stream on Facebook – while the beer and party may only be virtual, the stream fidelity is pretty good otherwise. Anyway – two big announcements today, the

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January 31, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Assistly rebrands as Desk.com. Quick Analysis

By Ben Kepes

It was only a few months that salesforce acquired Assistly (more here) but already we see the product relaunching under its new corporate overlords. Rebranded desk.com, the offering has been rebuilt from the ground up including an all new UI, a new HTML5 mobile app and a range of new

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January 16, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

IBM Goes Deep with Cloud and Social

By Ben Kepes

At Lotusphere IBM is today announcing a host of new offerings aimed at seeing it gain some relevance in the social enterprise space. There are a heap of announcements but the highlights include; New social analytics software that integrates wikis, blogs, activity streams, email, calendaring, and flags relevant data for

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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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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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December 3, 2010 Posted in Business 4 Comments

A DreamForce 2010 Look Ahead

By Ben Kepes

Next week I’ll be heading (along with around 30000 of my closest friends) to San Francisco for the epicness that is DreamForce. It’s the first year I’ll be attending the event in person, having followed it remotely in its previous incarnations. In the next couple of days I ‘m going

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Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.

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