My view on the interesting things happening at the intersection of business, technology, society, and the environment.[my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.]
Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com, speaking on Enterprise 2.0 mashups.
- "Bezos' presentation summed up one aspect of our business. You have to move from being a killer app to a killer platform. "
- We have an elastic database; 10 Terabytes, 500,000 subscribers
- Bikramfinder.com: mashup of Google map and salesforce.com into a tool that allows you to find bikram studios. We didn't do this. Some third-party did it. We love demoing this.
- iRows (embedded in App Exchange)
- [It would make sense for any other App Exchange member to be able to integrate into the iRows spreadsheet so that they can pass data back and forth easily.]
- We mashed up Skype as well (showed a demo of a tab where the contact list showed their Skype status.)
- We now have >400 applications sitting on App Exchange; grab the app you want and it populates your workspace.
- 1 floor of their new Siebel building will have cubes for mashup developers. $20K/yr per cube buys you a spot in our building where you can work closely with us to build your product that sits on our platform.