Accelerating the cloud momentum through expanded Salesforce.com offerings - Day 2 Notes from Dreamforce 2010
Guest Post by
Atul Chandra Pandey, Industry Head - Enterprise Application Integration and Solutions (EAIS), Enterprise Solutions, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Marc Benioff is a master salesman and did exactly what he is known for - selling cloud like no one else. The opening keynote today at Dreamforce 2010 was all about how the cloud journey has transcended beyond the initial thresholds of leveraging pay-as-you-go benefits to creating new frontiers of innovation, agility and smart business decision making. While Salesforce announced multitudes of new offerings - notably database.com, Appforce.com, ISV force.com and VMForce,com, the winner was mobility on new devices notably iPad. Almost half the room raised hand when Benioff asked about how many in the audience use / would like to see their SFDC app on iPad.
It was refreshing and encouraging to see customers connect and share their stories on Salesforce during the Manufacturing luncheon and demonstrated how clients are looking for best practices, unique ways to expand on their SFDC solution to deliver more business capabilities including advanced analytics, channel / distribution collaboration to name a few.
It was a mayhem at the cloud expo area with new solutions / niche products announced on Force.com almost everywhere. My view is that while not all of these apps may be able to generate value at the same level, it is exciting to see how rapidly the cloud business environment is changing and PaaS taking center stage. Another ubiquitous topic of discussion has been Chatter. Introduced just about an year back, this application is already creating a lot of buzz and excitement with customers ranging from already deployed to considering implementation now.
On the customer panel discussion today, we listened to perspectives on cloud from two of our key customers in the cloud space ranging from a host of topics ranging from drivers behind cloud adoption, integration, data security & privacy, mobility and Force.com
Thanks to all of you who stopped by Infosys booth today. Tomorrow (Dec 8th) we are conducting a table talk session in lower hall of Moscone West on the new applications we are planning to bring on Force.com. You are invited to visit the table talk discussion and provide your feedback / inputs.
Enjoy the rest of the conference!
