Archive for April, 2008
On Salesforce.com and Google
Much has been written over the past two days on the Salesforce.com | Google partnership, and as the dust is settling down, it’s time for me to share my first impressions as a user of this pretty cool mashup. Yesterday, Marc Benioff asked me if it made Salesforce.com Office 2.0 worthy, and my reply was a resounding “Yes”. In pure Salesforce.com style, reality does not fully match the marketing hype surrounding the announcement, but this first release is real, works, and is the very best Office 2.0 integration I have seen in a long time. So let’s take a closer look. [Continue…]
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Free/Busy Calendar for Salesforce.com
Scheduling meetings is a time-wasting collaborative process that no amount of technology will fix until simple APIs get supported by the most popular calendaring applications. One could use scheduling services such as the newly-released Presdo (awesome job Eric!), but it’s not (yet) integrated with Salesforce.com. So if you’re like me and are using Marc’s platform to get things done, you might be interested by this little PHP script that a couple of friends wrote for me. [Continue…]
