1. IT Success with the Winter '07 Release: Platform Overview Eric Bezar VP Platform Product Management Salesforce.com Track: IT Executives
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5. Single-Tenant: Roadblock to Success Implementing & Upgrading Single-Tenant Consumes IT & Forces Trade-Offs Can we afford to upgrade this year? What dependencies, fixes, or other software upgrades will this project actually trigger? Should we upgrade to the next version? Or is it going to be too expensive to rebuild our customizations? Is it possible to meet the deadlines for business stakeholders? (The CIO of a Fortune 50 company) estimated that his next upgrade would take two years and cost around $100M. Meanwhile, his CEO was asking, ‘Haven’t we already paid for this system’? “ ” — Bruce Richardson, AMR Research Dateline 2010: Divining the Future of Enterprise Software, September 2005 Should we wait until the next software release?
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9. Platform for the Business Web Secure & Scalable Integrate Mash-Ups ISV Standards Create & Publish Deliver Everywhere Mobile Run Deliver Globally Think Global, Act Local
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16. In Winter '07, AppExchange matures from a simple data centric platform to a powerful process centric platform . Now business analysts can automate entire business processes without coding. Winter '07 makes powerful things simple.
17. From Data Centric to Process Centric Current Winter '07 Content File Share Project Portal MS Sharepoint Intranet Nytimes.com Transaction Process Data Press Release approval Spreadsheet MS Access Lotus Notes Group Recruiting Bug tracking ProServ Automation Product Management Project Management Department Payroll (ADP) Financials (Oracle) Supply Chain Benefits Enrollment Expense Mgmt Help desk Procurement HR CRM Analytics Enterprise Paypal CSS/PRM Internet/ Extranet
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31. Programming Language Customize any CRM feature or build your own Build Any Application! Run custom business logic on our server Beta release planned for Q1 2007 Data apps Process apps Transactional apps
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34. Automate Manual Business Processes Human Resources Recruiting Vacation Requests Training Finance Expense Reports Procurement Budgets Operations Project Management Event Managment Professional Services Management IT IT Asset Tracking Bug Tracking Change Requests Which users have been left out? Which business processes are still manual?