May 22, 2017 By Alexis Kushner de la Pena

Infographic: See How Building Apps on Salesforce Has Tremendous ROI

The pressure that businesses today are under to reduce costs, improve agility, and deliver better results is no joke. Couple that with rapidly evolving technology and competition for developers, and you can get a sense of the dramatic shift IT leaders and CIOs are experiencing in their roles. IT... Read More

App Cloud, Apps, IT

Feb 27, 2017 By Alexis Kushner de la Pena

6 Equality Trailblazers Building Diversity in Tech

The true story told in the Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures would've remained lost to history if author Margot Lee Shetterly had not uncovered it and brought it to light. Shetterly's 2016 bestselling book of the same name memorializes the team of brilliant black women mathematicians who worked... Read More

IT, Careers

Feb 24, 2017 By Alexis Kushner de la Pena

How To Build Apps That Make Your Employees Happy

Employees are on the go. They need mobile access to internal apps — gone are the days that a desktop-only portal makes the cut. But only 12 percent of employees use enterprise apps — even though 85 percent of the ones that do say their favorite enterprise app saves them time and 83 percent say... Read More

Apps, App Cloud, IT

Feb 16, 2017 By Alexis Kushner de la Pena

IT and HR: The Digital Employee Experience Dream Team

Apps not only solve problems and save time in our personal lives — we're also more effective at work with the right tools. Airline pilots, for example, used to lug heavy flight bags through the airport. Now they carry a tablet that weighs less than two pounds. They also used to spend hours manually... Read More

App Cloud, IT

Aug 10, 2016 By Alexis Kushner de la Pena

How Salesforce Transformed the Giving Experience with Volunteerforce1

Volunteering is at the core of who Salesforce is as a company. On day one, our founders created the 1–1–1 model that is built on the idea that business can be successful and profitable while also giving back to society. The 1-1-1 model is partially fueled by encouraging Salesforce employees to... Read More

App Cloud, Foundation, IT

Jul 26, 2016 By Alexis Kushner de la Pena

You've Mastered the Salesforce Basics. But Wait: There's More.

Unlocking sales and service functionality is merely the first step in the Salesforce journey. Once you’ve got a leg up with the basics, you want to figure out how to use Salesforce across the various teams, departments, and use cases. How do you put the right functionality in the hands of the right... Read More

App Cloud, IT

Jul 07, 2016 By Alexis Kushner de la Pena

Elegant Design Is Key to a Brilliant Org Chart App

Here’s a good problem for a company to have: you’re growing so fast it becomes hard to keep track of who’s working for whom. Salesforce faced this problem and found that, as it grew from 4,000 employees in 2010 to more than 16,000 as of 2015, it became necessary to build an org chart that detailed... Read More

IT, Apps, Developer

May 18, 2016 By Alexis Kushner de la Pena

How We Delivered an Amazing Event Experience at the World’s Largest Tech Conference

Anyone who’s ever been lost in a convention center knows that navigating a conference, a festival, or even a large forum requires a system to untangle it all. But conference apps never quite measure up. There’s always something clunky: too many events, too cumbersome an interface, nothing intuitive... Read More

App Cloud, Apps, Innovation, IT, Mobile