Winter ’12 brings you new features across every cloud to help you create your own Social Enterprise, where employees collaborate easily and use social media to connect with customers like never before. Winter ’12 includes more than 150 features, including social contacts, collaborative forecasts, Chatter Now, and much more.

As a salesforce partner we can help you develop these tools on your road to success.

Touch.salesforce.com will be the first sales app to work seamlessly across all your smartphones and tablets. Its intuitive, touch-friendly interface offers larger icons, stackable screens, and optimized touch-targets so you can quickly find the information you need for greater productivity while on the go.

Roger Mcnamee, saavy Venture Capital investor, recently spelled out the opportunity of html5 as a disruptive technology in a presentation. Everything is an app in terms of apple’s App Store

Here is an overview view of touch that is coming soon.

touch salesforce.com for ipad & smartphones using html5

More about SaaS Solutions – a salesforce.com consulting partner

Accurate and clean data is the life blood of any database and a significant driver of end user adoption. As a salesforce.com partner and CRM Consultant, we have had years of  hands-on experience with a plethora of solutions to the age old problem of stale and inaccurate data  in CRMs. Consider that on average, people switch jobs every  3 years. What does that mean for your contact relationship system which you bought from OneSource or Hoovers years ago? How do you fix it?

Jigsaw is a unique solution to this problem particularly because it integrates with salesforce and empowers the user to hunt for targeted information that is useful to them. For example, if you want to generate a calling list of all marketing people in New York, in business under 10 million with employees of 25 to 200 people you can easily create that list in jigsaw and import those contacts into salesforce with a few mouse clicks.

Jigsaw released new functionality in its Jigsaw for salesforce edition this June that allows users to search for and import accounts into salesforce for free. Users can see limited contact data inside salesforce, but for email and contact information you need a salesforce Jigsaw license. There are a few ways to pay for this depending on your needs. The Jigsaw for salesforce aka JFS also allows you to create settings to automatically or manually  clean data based on daily syncing.  The biggest enhancement to the new integrated layout in salesforce is that you can search the native jigsaw.com website within salesforce and with a click of a button move Accounts and Contacts to salesforce. In this recent release the end user has more fields to segment data and create the  right actionable list. This helps sales and marketing be more productive and close more business faster.

Currently on Jigsaw:

• Contacts 27,500,000
• Companies 4,200,000

Is it perfect? No, but its always  improving through rapid innovation by leveraging technology and mindshare.

How does it compare to other data services like OneSource, Duns and BradStreet, Hoovers, InsideView, List Brokers, Linkedin, and Email Append Services?  Try it. Seeing is believing. Have your best sales people that are CRM power users pilot it and test the quality of the data with your marketing team. My guess is you will be pleasantly surprised and a quick advocate of the service.

How much do data solutions in general Cost? We prefer to re-phase the answer and show how much value data solutions likes salesforce can provide for end user’s productivity and more deals close won. Solutions and value vary per year from: Free to $240 to $1200 ; $3000 to $5000; up to 1$12,000 to $20,000 depending on the amount of users and leads/contact information you will consume. This is why tracking Campaigns and Opportunities to  lead source marketing can make decision based on empirical  data. If you can show more meaningful results with Jigsaw, the focus shifts to the value of accurate fresh data to sales and marketing vs the cost.

Leverage SaaS Solutions salesforce CRM experience with Jigsaw and other data services to match your requirements to the right to increase your sales and productivity.
Here is a high level video about How to Get Started with Jigsaw to Boost Sales – Jigsaw for salesforce

March 3, 2011 | The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center of New York

SaaS Solutions has built its professional service reputation around its core tenets of People, Process, Technology, and Results. How do we stay in touch with the salesforce.com community?  Meeting our customers and partners at the salesforce.com ecosystem at events such as Cloudforce. There are always a few high business value takeaways from such events as cloudforce 2011.

Join SaaS Solutions – salesforce.com partner,  Marc Benioff, industry leaders, and 3,000 of your peers to discover the latest mobile, social, and collaborative breakthroughs driving success in the Cloud 2 world.

Come experience the future of cloud computing and see for yourself how you can run any app on any device, using any development platform. Take part in this free, all-day event where you can choose from 18 role-based breakout sessions for sales, customer service, developers, and IT.

Then, cap off your day by networking 1:1 with salesforce.com customers, partners, and experts in our giant cloud expo.

Breakout sessions include:

• Sales Cloud for beginners
• Jigsaw Data Cloud: Boost sales with accurate data
• Chatter; Social Collaboration for the Entire Company
• Force.com Workshops
• Service Cloud: the future of customer service

Register Now for Cloudforce 2011

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As part of our commitment to give back to the Non-Profit community SaaS Solutions  offers a Non-Profit Strategic Cloud Computing Power Pack Program. We donate three hours of free consulting a month to a qualifying 501(c) Non-Profit Organization looking to learn how cloud computing can help them achieve their mission.

The world is moving to the cloud, and with that move the core database architecture is finally changing. The first fundamental transformation in databases in the last 30 years, and with Database.com salesforce.com  is opening that data utility up to everyone with a freemium model

Resources:

http://www.database.com/pricing freemium pricing like force.com

http://blog.database.com/

FAQ’s

SaaS Solutions salesforce.com CRM Partner

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The foundation for any cloud service, and especially a cloud database, is trust and security. With Database.com, we have made the necessary investments to earn your trust, starting with complying with the most critical standards – ISO 27001, SAS 70, etc. – so that you know that you can trust the way we run our service. We have the physical and network security that you demand, as well as the sharing and security features built right into the database.

But what really sets Database.com apart from other databases is all of you. When new customers choose to use Database.com, they always ask us the tough questions. Some of our customers, such as Symantec, Dell, and Cisco, are among the leaders in IT security, and you can be sure when they consider using our cloud database, their security teams put us through the wringer. And you know what? Sometimes they think we can do better. What’s powerful is what happens next – when we fix an issue for one customer, instantly the database for all 87,000 of our customers just got more secure. That’s the power of multitenancy and why it matters.

And finally, Database.com is designed not just for the current generation of applications, but also for the next generation, with a built-in social data model, and optimized for mobility. If you think about it, the client/server architecture of 30 years ago simply wasn’t designed for the Internet and mobility. It was designed for a high-speed low-latency local area network. But that is not the world of today, where devices can be anywhere, and that’s where Database.com really shines.

It looks like Cloud Computing user are going to get access to a power enterprise database solution with the simplicity of the cloud the cloud that salesforce.com customers expect.

About SaaS Solutions salesforce.com CRM Partner | QlikView Business Intelligence (BI) for salesforce |  Capabilities |  Resource Center

History shows Marc likes to ride the wave of  whatever is hot:  google, apple’s iPhone, twitter, Facebook, etc.  My best guess is salesforce.com will release  something around these mega-trend topics: mobile (iPhone, Android), social media, iPad/tablets, real-time search, opensource, and video for its 2011 theme.

As a Morgan Stanley alum, I always enjoy Byron Wein’s Top Ten List .  For the fun of it, as a self-proclaimed cloud enthusiast,  I created a list of where I think the cloud ecosystem and salesforce.com will be in 2011 and forward into the next 5-10 years.

Top 10 List of Dreamforce 2010 and beyond in Cloud Computing

1. HP signs enterprise licensing with salesforce setting world record in shortest Enterprise software sales cycle  (more about HP dumping Siebel here)
2. salesforce.com releases freemium Chatter standalone software product for desktop and Mobile
3. salesforce.com releases Android mobile edition / mobile lite edition for Android Operating system
4. SFDC achieves metrics of 100K customers, achieving >$2 Billion in sales for FY2012
5. salesforce acquires marketing automation firm (eloqua, loopfuse, marketo, or anyone please) to help align sales and marketing, filling functionality gap in portfolio. Salesforce.com opts with a freemium model
6. At the new Mission Bay Headquarters salesforce.com beefs up vertical and ecosystem partner strategy with substantial funding of Cloud Computing Venture Capital Force arm becoming the Kleiner Perkins of Cloud startups. Key strategic Special Matter Experts and Bankers are hired securing  salesforce.com’s cutting edge Cloud Computing leadership over the next decade
7. salesforce pilots entering hardware business testing a subscription agreement that includes a netbook that runs on Google Chrome
8. salesforce signs term sheet with QlikView to develop QlikView’s “In-Memory” Business Intelligence (BI) to the cloud, leveraging Amazon’s cloud computing with Qlikview technology’s best in breed analytics entering the Business Intelligence space
9. salesforce signs partnership agreement with Lithium Technologies to bring social CRM to salesforce ecosystem
10. salesforce wins deal to re-design SAP’s BusinessByDesign to help build out a real multi-tenancy ERP product on Force.com platform
11. salesforce introduces new App on the facebook platform developed by Zynga, salesforceCRMville, a fun virtual e-Learning tool that helps sales team learn how to engage and retain customers
12. Marc Benioff and Larry Ellison agree on the definition of “cloud computing”

OK, should I have titled Top 12 instead??

What do you think will be released at Dreamforce 2010?

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