"Cloud of Clouds" - our 2009 predictions.
In 2008, we saw the early seeds of a "cloud of clouds" emerging. It started in April with Salesforce and Google announcing integration between Google Apps and Salesforce to bridge the gap between Google's productivity applications and Salesforce. Later in the year, at Dreamforce, Salesforce expanded the idea of a "cloud of clouds" by announcing integrations with Facebook (for social graph information) and with Amazon (for raw computing infrastructure). Salesforce ended the year with a bang, by announcing Force.com for Google App Engine.
Sidebar Summary using Visualforce
About a year ago, I posted about the Sidebar Summary. The Sidebar Summary exists in the Salesforce.com sidebar and displays the counts of some important queries. The counts are also hyperlinks to a view or report representing that query. It’s a...
Read more about Sidebar Summary using Visualforce...Strategy Definition or Strategy Execution…
Which is more important? It’s a bit of a chicken vs. egg argument, but it’s fair to say that both are critical to driving positive financial results. Put it this way, if defining strategy explains 15% of a company’s financial performance then...
Read more about Strategy Definition or Strategy Execution…...Negative Churn
We just closed another great quarter at Intacct, and I'm extremely proud to report that we had 100% customer retention for our direct sales channel the quarter. This is no mean feat for a business of our size and growth - more than 2,500 customers...
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When we set out to make Aurora we thought, “This can’t be that hard. We’ve made concept videos before.” But the complexity and ambiguous nature of the production process caught us by surprise, challenging us far beyond our expectations. From a...
Read more about Aurora: Making The Movie...Support Multiple Cookies in Header
salesforce's wsdl generated apex classes seem to not have access to more than 1 cookie in an HTTP header. Please fix this. I am using apex classes generated by the wsdl2apex functionality in salesforce, to integrate with a web service. This...
Read more about Support Multiple Cookies in Header...Yahoo’s BOSS Search Mashups
Last month Yahoo! announced BOSS, its Build Your Own Search Service, which "allows developers and companies to create and launch web-scale search products by utilizing the same infrastructure and technology that powers Yahoo! Search." The REST API...
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