Nov 04, 2011 By Kendall Thornton

A Cloud Walks Into a Bar...

We in the Command Center at the salesforce.com mothership run across a lot of humor from our fans. We want to share the lighter side of the #cloud revolution. Can you top these? Tweet us up at @salesforce.     (courtesty of Michael... Read More

Nov 02, 2011 By Brett Queener

Business Data, It Shouldn’t be this Hard

Everyone who has invested any money in deploying CRM applications (like salesforce.com) understands that their ROI will be heavily impacted by the actual quality of the data in the system. "Garbage in, garbage out" is an expression we all can identify with, yet many of you are still... Read More

Sales

Nov 01, 2011 By Hollie Wegman

AppExchange All-Star: Dave Belove, Cloud9

Dave Belove has been a Salesforce user, integration consultant, and system administrator for nearly 10 years. He is currently the Sr. Director of Global Sales Operations for Cloud9, an AppExchange partner, and a member of the executive committee of the Salesforce Silicon Valley Users... Read More

Oct 31, 2011 By Shanna Wagnor

Live Webinar: Getting Started with Salesforce – Made Easy!

Join Aisha Kelly-Vong, Premier Support Manager, to learn how to get started with Salesforce in 5 easy steps! 1. Understand basic concepts and terms 2. Control how users access data with permissions, security controls, and sharing options 3. Create reports and dashboards to track leads through... Read More

Oct 31, 2011 By Kris Lande

Make Me Mobile Contest Finalists Announced!

We received nearly 1,000 submissions for our "Make me Mobile" contest! It was really tough to narrow it down—there were so many great contenders—but we’re excited to announce we’ve chosen three finalists. The following companies submitted stories about how going mobile with Salesforce... Read More

Marketing

Oct 20, 2011 By Mike Rosenbaum

If You Build It (and a whole lot of people work really, really hard for six years) They Will Come

AppExchange Crosses the One Million Installs Milestone Six years ago salesforce.com launched the world’s first app marketplace, you can check it out here: http://web.archive.org/web/20060316041420/http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange We launched it before cloud was cool and the only thing we had... Read More

IT

Oct 20, 2011 By Mike Rosenbaum

SAP, meet Force.com: Creating a social enterprise by unlocking the SAP core

Our customers have spoken loud and clear. They want to build a social enterprise. They want to transform the way they collaborate, communicate and share information with both customers and employees. They want to shift IT from being a cost center to a catalyst for innovation and a driver of... Read More

AppExchange, Customization, Partners, Platform

Oct 20, 2011 By Jamie Grenney

How To Use Chatter Effectively

This past week we spent some time in our team meeting talking about how to use Chatter effectively. The flow of the presentation is to talk about the different reasons why people use chatter and then lead a discussion on how to use chatter effectively. We wrap up by reviewing examples... Read More

Chatter, Featured

Oct 19, 2011 By Bobby Amezaga

Winter '12 is Here and It's Social

At Dreamforce 2011, we welcomed you to the Social Enterprise, which enables companies to connect to its customers and employees in a whole new way, and with our Winter ‘12 release, Salesforce customers will have an opportunity to experience exactly what this means. With Winter ‘12 we are going... Read More

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