Salesforce User Group Meeting
Indianapolis
June 17, 2009
7:45am - 9:30am
TrustPointe
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Hello Indy SFUG Member!

Please join me at the Indianapolis Salesforce User Group (SFUG) Meeting June 17, 2009.  Grab a cup of coffee to meet and greet with fellow members at 7:45am.  We will begin our presentations promptly at 8:10am to ensure everyone keeps on a schedule.

Are you a new to Salesforce? Do you feel like you are getting the most out of your system? Maybe you don't have an expert administrator that setup your company account. 

We are pleased to welcome Randy Kidd of Salesforce to share with you information on how to best implement the Salesforce application to get the best use out of your system . Here are a few things he will cover:

Apps to address include:
-        SFA
-        Service and Support
-        Ideas, Content, Sites

Areas to cover:
-        Creating Objects, Fields
-        Workflow and Approval
-        Reporting
-        Security
-        Integration / DataLoader
-        AppExchange and Partner Products

Apps to build live:
-        Expense Report
-        Recruiting

Already know how to do all these things?  Please come and share!! We are looking for customers to share how they have implemented Salesforce in their own organizations and share some best practices to the group.

Please RSVP if you plan to attend by June 12, 2009 at 12pm noon to dlaffey@ricssoftware.com.

If your company is interested in sponsoring an event, please contact me at dlaffey@ricssoftware.com or 515.333.4677.

I hope to see you there!

Danielle Laffey
Indianapolis SFUG Leader

Thank you for all who attended the SFUG Indianapolis meeting today.  It was great to see both new and familiar faces at the event.  For those who weren't able to attend, here is an event summary and survey to help with future meeting planning.

Event Sponsor ExactTarget presented two client success stories utilizing the integration into Salesforce for their marketing and customer communications via email.  If you are interested in the new features that ExactTarget has to offer or have any questions go to www.exacttarget.com.

Saleforce.com's Randy Kidd was at the meeting to discuss the new features and products that were announced at DreamForce.  He explained the significance the products and/or features have to YOU as a SF user.  Kidd also gave us several Successforce resources  to help users get the most of the product. Please see the highlights of DreamForce and resources below.

CRM Buyer wrote: “Force.com Sites, part of the company's Force.com cloud computing platform, allows customers to run their Web sites in Salesforce.com's cloud…Essentially, the new functionality expands Salesforce.com's role in cloud computing for the enterprise. Clearly, there are tools on the market that allow companies to connect back-end systems to a front-end Web site. However, Web sites built on Force.com Sites will be more dynamic…as they are based on an internal business applications running on Force.com. Sites dedicated to event registrations, hotel concierge services or recruiting, for example, could be updated in near real-time.”

IDG News Service: “Salesforce.com moved deeper into the world of cloud computing on Monday, announcing partnerships that link its Force.com hosted applications platform with services from Facebook and Amazon Web Services. Addressing a packed hall of Salesforce.com customers, Benioff painted a picture of a computing Wild West in which cloud platforms from different vendors are combining to create new opportunities and challenges.”

InternetNews.com wrote: “Salesforce.com chairman and CEO Marc Benioff plans to make the software as a service company even more prominent in the cloud. Speaking to a packed house at the company's Dreamforce 2008 conference today, he discussed tie-ins with other cloud players such as Facebook and Amazon…A panel of experts recently picked cloud computing as the next great computing revolution. Benioff's remarks reminded the fray of the buzz surrounding cloud computing.”

Wall Street Journal wrote: “’Cloud computing’ is the hottest tech buzzterm since ‘Web 2.0.’…But the company that has embraced the term most passionately is Salesforce.com, which broadened the meaning to include all software accessed over the Internet…Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference…was dubbed by one speaker the ‘Woodstock of cloud computing.’…Once you cut past the hype there’s something pretty interesting taking place. Businesses that write software that runs on Salesforce.com’s ‘platform’ can now have the same software run on Facebook. And they can use Amazon’s services to support this software.”

CIO wrote: “Salesforce.com executives and Sandberg showed off how a recruiting app made on the Force.com platform could be embedded into a Facebook page. The app leveraged the social aspects of Facebook to determine what ‘friends’ on the service might be a leading candidate for a job listing. Such an example shows how business focused application can use Facebook's ‘social graph.’”

CNET News.com wrote: “Sandberg was on stage to tout a Facebook partnership with Salesforce.com by which applications running on the Force.com infrastructure can be presented on Facebook pages. Salesforce.com offers online tools for businesses managing their customer relationships--and an increasingly sophisticated programmable foundation for customized applications and Web sites. If programmers using the Salesforce.com infrastructure jump aboard, they could bring a significant new business angle to the scope of Facebook's applications, which today tend to be much more about entertainment.”

Dow Jones Newswires wrote: “The [Facebook-salesforce.com] partnership aims to bring Force.com, Salesforce.com's developer platform, onto Facebook, which has more than 120 million users around the world and is popular with younger users. The deal will let developers design business applications for Facebook, allowing companies to manage sales data and organize meetings over the popular site.”

SDTimes.com wrote: “Salesforce.com moved to solidify its position as a hosting platform with the announcement today of new integrations with Amazon Web Services…Salesforce's newly found dedication to categorizing itself as a cloud company extended to the ceilings of the keynote auditorium, where blue skies with clouds were projected during CEO and co-founder Marc Benioff's keynote presentation. Benioff enthusiastically espoused the numerous perceived benefits of cloud computing.”

The Motley Fool wrote: “Salesforce is launching Force.com Sites today, a venture that finds the company hosting third-party sites and applications on its proven cloud platform. It makes perfect sense. Salesforce now manages customer information for 47,700 companies. It's not just a thick Rolodex of smalltime upstarts.”

The Register wrote: “In a world where ‘software as a service’ was looking dated, Salesforce.com's has gone hip with Facebook and Amazon while taking swipes at Microsoft's attempts to be cool. salesforce.com's chief executive Marc Benioff has unveiled Force.com for Facebook to integrate 260,000 of the social networks' applications with business applications inside the Salesforce.com platform…In a nod to businesses, Force.com for Sites was announced to build web-based applications in Salesforce.com's Apex language and host them inside Salesfore.com data centers.”

VentureBeat wrote: “The Facebook announcement is probably the most significant, because it allows developers for Force.com…to tap into the huge number of users on Facebook…It’s also a way for Facebook to introduce more business-oriented apps into platform, which is largely dominated by stuff that’s more fun and gimmicky…The Amazon announcement is also significant, particularly because it shows that Salesforce’s and Amazon’s cloud hosting services can be complementary…Overall, the keynote presented a promising vision: Salesforce will continue expanding its business application platform, and connecting it to other Internet clouds and platforms…I don’t think it was just PR-speak when he said he isn’t concerned about Microsoft’s announcement last week that it’s launching its own cloud application platform called Windows Azure; Benioff playfully described Azure as ‘future vaporware.’”

ZDNet wrote: “The message at Dreamforce is clear - No More Software. In his keynote, Benioff took some small jabs at Microsoft, which announced its own cloud computing platform called Azure, at its Professional Developers Conference last week…But more importantly, it further validates the cloud when the company that has the most invested in the software business - Microsoft - recognizes that the platform is moving into the cloud. Amazon has already said it, he said. So has Google, Facebook. IBM. That’s the power of the cloud, he said, calling it a shared infrastructure or a multi-tenancy environment - sort of like an apartment building.”

Bloomberg wrote: “Salesforce.com Inc., the biggest seller of online customer-management software, plans to take advantage of extra storage and computer capacity by hosting Web sites in its data centers. Customers will be able to create and operate Internet pages with a new service called Force.com Sites.”

gokubi.com wrote: “Sites is a big breakthrough…This is a way to extend what you’re already doing to the world. Sites enable opening up your database in controlled ways to your constituents, with the exact look and feel you want. Prepare yourself for a wave of innovative add on products that take advantage of this new way of thinking.”

InformationWeek wrote: “Called Force.com Sites, it's an aggressive effort by the company to extend its development and hosting platform more broadly across the Web, and expand beyond its roots in on-demand sales force automation software.”

ZDNet wrote: “Facebook and Salesforce.com today announced that the two companies will partner to make it easier for Force.com developers to utilize Facebook’s API while creating hosted applications. According to Facebook, the new relationship is designed to create a more established development community between Facebook’s 120 million users and Salesforce.com’s 100,000 developers…The Force.com for Facebook sites claim to help developers use Facebook APIs within any of their developed Force.com applications. The Force.com for Facebook capabilities use Facebook’s social graph to create social data to merge with recruiting, productivity and project collaboration applications. Force.com for Facebook will help developers build social and business applications.”

BusinessWeek wrote: “Cut to the annual Dreamforce conference on Nov. 3, when Salesforce.com unveils its new software, Force.com Sites. It offers tools that will let companies…build Web sites that solicit feedback from customers on pages served by Salesforce's computers. Force.com represents a foray into cloud computing, which lets customers pay someone else to house the ever-rising mountains of data and computing power needed to deliver information on the Internet.”

eWEEK wrote: “Salesforce.com leverages Google's Visualization API to let programmers build business intelligence reporting and analysis tools for their enterprise applications…Salespeople and marketing workers can use such tools to better understand business processes and better serve their customers. Human resources departments may use such BI tools internally to help illuminate employee status, while financial analysts could have a field day rendering their business analyses with the API.”

Mashable wrote: “Salesforce.com is adding a major new component to its platform: allowing developers to run their external facing websites and applications on top of the company’s infrastructure…As an example, ThomasNet uses Salesforce.com for managing their recruitment efforts. Now, they’ve moved job applications over to Force.com Sites, and those submissions flow right into the company’s Salesforce.com app. Previously, this would require a Salesforce.com customer to integrate with their existing job site, but now, it can be turned on and managed all through the Web interface that Salesforce provides.”

San Francisco Chronicle wrote: “Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff co-founded Salesforce.com in an apartment in San Francisco in 1999 at the height of the dot-com bubble, when he became convinced that the main vehicle for delivering software would one day be the Internet. Nearly 10 years later, his idea of "software as a service" has been validated…In July, the company was on track to hit $1 billion by January 2009. Meanwhile, Microsoft's executives said last week that its own Office applications will be adapted to run in what the software industry now calls the cloud.”

Wall Street Journal wrote: “This isn’t your run of the mill Web-site support, however. The goal is to bridge the divide that exists in many businesses between Web operations and internal information technology…Not only are the two often run by different groups, but more importantly data doesn’t always move freely between the Web site and a business’s systems.”

ZDNet wrote: “On Monday at its annual Dreamforce conference, Salesforce.com will change forever the way that businesses build websites. It is launching Force.com Sites, which provides a hosted website infrastructure for publishing data from an organisation’s internal Salesforce.com applications to the outside world…Personally this is how I’ve always felt websites should be built.”

11.02.08 – San Francisco Chronicle, Salesforce.com CEO's head is still in a 'cloud'
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/01/BU5C13RBT5.DTL

11.02.08 – San Francisco Chronicle, Salesforce.com CEO's heart stays in S.F.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/02/BUHC13S10E.DTL&type=tech

11.02.08 – CNET News.com, Salesforce.com extends cloud computing service
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10080771-92.html

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11.02.08 – Yahoo! News, Salesforce.com extends cloud computing service
            http://tech.yahoo.com/news/cnet/20081103/tc_cnet/8301100131008077192_1

11.02.08 – eWEEK, Salesforce.com Boosts Enterprise SAAS Via The Google Visualization API
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Applications/Salesforcecom-Boosts-Enterprise-SAAS-Via-The-Google-Visualization-API/

11.02.08 – San Francisco Chronicle, Neil Young on gas guzzlers: Long may you run
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/02/MNLC13S45F.DTL

11.02.08 – VentureBeat, Salesforce.com’s cloud footprint grows with Force.com Sites
http://venturebeat.com/2008/11/02/salesforcecoms-cloud-footprint-grows-with-forcecom-sites/

PICKED UP BY:
11.02.08 – The Industry Standard, Salesforce.com’s cloud footprint grows with Force.com Sites
http://www.theindustrystandard.com/news/2008/11/02/salesforce-com-s-cloud-footprint-grows-force-com-sites

11.02.08 – ReadWriteWeb, Salesforce.com Says Hello World
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/salesforcecom_says_hello_world.php

11.02.08 – Mashable, Host Your Website in Salesforce.com’s Cloud with Force.com Sites
http://mashable.com/2008/11/02/force-sites/

11.02.08 –TechCrunchIT, Sunday Special: $99 One-Day Pass to Dreamforce
http://www.techcrunchit.com/2008/11/02/sunday-special-99-one-day-pass-to-dreamforce/

11.02.08 – CRM FYI, Forcecom Workbook Available in the Immersion Lab
http://crmfyi.com/?p=166

11.02.08 – CRM FYI, Live from Dreamforce 08; It’s the CRMFYiPhone
http://crmfyi.com/?p=164

11.03.08 - Wall Street Journal, Salesforce.com Wants to Host Your Web Site
http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2008/11/03/salesforcecom-wants-to-host-your-web-site/

11.03.08 – BusinessWeek, Salesforce.com Leaps Into Cloud Computing
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2008/tc2008112_515699.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index+-+temp_technology

            PICKED UP BY:
            11.03.08 – MSNBC, Salesforce.com Leaps Into Cloud Computing
            http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27517252/

11.03.08 – ZDNet, At last, this is how websites should be built
http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=602

11.03.08 – San Francisco Chronicle, Dreamforce conference kicks off
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/03/BUQM13S5LC.DTL

11.03.08 – InformationWeek, Salesforce.com Plans Hosted Web Site Service
http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/hosted_apps/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=211800611&subSection=E-Business

11.03.08 – TMCnet, Salesforce.com Intros Force.com Sites to Expand Enterprise Cloud Computing
http://it.tmcnet.com/topics/it/articles/44364-salesforcecom-intros-forcecom-sites-expand-enterprise-cloud-computing.htm

11.03.08 – dBTechno, Salesforce.com Making Its Move Into Cloud Computing
http://www.dbtechno.com/internet/2008/11/03/salesforcecom-making-its-move-into-cloud-computing/

11.03.08 – TMCnet, Salesforce.com, NetSuite Get Celigo Connector
http://news.tmcnet.com/news/2008/11/03/3754926.htm

11.03.08 – eFluxMedia, Salesforce.com Redefines Cloud Computing With Force.com Sites
http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_Salesforcecom_Redefines_Cloud_Computing_With_Forcecom_Sites_28032.html

11.03.08 – CNET News.com, Google graphing tool outgrows sheltered childhood
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10080915-2.html

11.03.08 – IDG News Service, Salesforce debuts Force.com Sites
No URL

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11.03.08 – NetworkWorld.com, Salesforce debuts Force.com Sites
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/110308-salesforce-debuts-forcecom.html?hpg1=bn

11.03.08 – InfoWorld, Salesforce debuts Force.com Sites
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/03/Salesforce_debuts_Forcecom_Sites_1.html

11.03.08 – ComputerWorld, Salesforce debuts Force.com Sites
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9118899&source=rss_news

11.03.08 – ZDNet, Dreamforce: Taking SaaS and the cloud in new (and old) directions
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=10661

11.03.08 – vnunet.com, Salesforce boosts cloud offering with Force.com Sites
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2229625/salesforce-launches-easy-web

11.03.08 – Salesforce Times, Sanfran Chronicle: Benioff speaks
http://www.salesforcetimes.com/sanfran-chronicle-benioff-speaks/

11.03.08 – TMCnet, Jitterbit Eases Salesforce.com Integration to Enhance Customer Benefit
http://call-center-software.tmcnet.com/topics/call-center-solutions/articles/44413-jitterbit-eases-salesforcecom-integration-enhance-customer-benefit.htm

11.03.08 – CMSWire, Force.com Sites - A New Step into the Cloud for Salesforce.com
http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-20/forcecom-sites-a-new-step-into-the-cloud-for-salesforcecom-003447.php

11.03.08 – CIO Insight, Salesforce Expands Its Cloud
http://blogs.cioinsight.com/knowitall/content001/enterprise_20/salesforce_expands_its_cloud.html

11.03.08 - bMighty.com, Salesforce.com Extends Platform To Host Web Sites
http://www.bmighty.com/blog/main/archives/2008/11/salesforcecom_e_1.html

11.03.08 - Web Host Industry Review, Salesforce Adds Website Hosting
http://www.thewhir.com/marketwatch/110308_Salesforce_Adds_Website_Hosting.cfm

11.03.08 – TMCnet, TimeDriver for Salesforce CRM Enhances Sales Scheduling
http://call-center-software.tmcnet.com/topics/call-center-services/articles/44423-timedriver-salesforce-crm-enhances-sales-scheduling.htm

11.03.08 – MSPmentor, Salesforce.com Enters Web Hosting Business
http://www.mspmentor.net/2008/11/03/salesforcecom-enters-web-hosting-business/

11.03.08 – gokubi.com, Force.com Sites Announced
http://gokubi.com/archives/forcecom-sites-announced

11.03.08 – InfoWorld, InfoWorld Daily Podcast
http://weblog.infoworld.com/daily/archives/2008/11/infoworld_daily_697.html

11.03.08 – TelephonyOnline, Ambitions remain high as BT's Ribbit goes 2.0
http://telephonyonline.com/voip/news/ribbit-second-version-1103/

11.03.08 – ZDNet, Salesforce.com validates enterprise blogging
http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=1118

11.03.08 – AllFacebook, Facebook Active Users Update: 120 Million
http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/11/facebook-active-users-update-120-million/

11.03.08 – AllFacebook, Facebook and Salesforce Announce New Partnership
http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/11/facebook-and-salesforce-announce-new-partnership/

11.03.08 – ZDNet, Facebook, Salesforce.com aim to create common developer network
http://blogs.zdnet.com/feeds/?p=297

11.03.08 – ZDNet, Dreamforce 08: Benioff preaches the cloud computing gospel and Facebook
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-10080945-80.html

11.03.08 – CIO Today, Salesforce.com Offers Customers an Expanded Cloud
http://www.cio-today.com/news/Salesforce-com-Expands-the-Cloud/story.xhtml?story_id=0030006EISFC

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            11.03.08 – NewsFactor Network, Salesforce.com Offers Customers an Expanded Cloud
http://www.newsfactor.com/news/Salesforce-com-Expands-the-Cloud/story.xhtml?story_id=0030003IXD60

            11.03.08 – Sci-Tech Today, Salesforce.com Offers Customers an Expanded Cloud
http://www.sci-tech-today.com/news/Salesforce-com-Expands-the-Cloud/story.xhtml?story_id=003000C251BC

11.03.08 – Silicon Alley Insider, Salesforce.com Goes Into Web Hosting, Partners With Amazon And Facebook
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/salesforce-com-goes-into-web-hosting-partners-with-amazon-and-facebook

11.03.08 – ZDNet, CyberSafe: CODA2go’s first Force.com customer speaks
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=530

11.03.08 – Bloomberg News, Salesforce.com Adds Service for Building Web Sites (Update2)
No URL

11.03.08 – CNET News.com, Facebook membership surges to 120 million users
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10081341-2.html

11.03.08 – CNET News.com, Dreamforce: Neil Young shows off his green machine
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-10081362-80.html

11.03.08 - IT Business Edge, Everybody Wants to Be Salesforce.com’s Integration Buddy
http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/mia/?p=501

11.03.08 – The Register, Salesforce.com apps integrate with Facebook and Amazon
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/03/salesforce_cloud/

11.03.08 – CIO, Salesforce's Force.com Apps to Run on Facebook: New Social Networking Power Couple
http://www.cio.com/article/458769/Salesforce_s_Force.com_Apps_to_Run_on_Facebook_New_Social_Networking_Power_Couple

11.03.08 – The Motley Fool, Crowds in the Clouds
http://www.fool.com/investing/high-growth/2008/11/03/crowds-in-the-clouds.aspx

11.03.08 – SDTimes.com, Salesforce introduces Force.com cloud hosting service
http://www.sdtimes.com/SALESFORCE_INTRODUCES_FORCE_COM_CLOUD_HOSTING_SERVICE/About_CLOUDCOMPUTING_and_AMAZON_and_FACEBOOKSALESFORCE/33026

11.03.08 –ZDNet, Can Force.com help consolidate your web tier?
http://blogs.zdnet.com/forrester/?p=120

11.03.08 – VentureBeat, Dreamforce: Salesforce.com adds Facebook, Amazon and Neil Young
http://venturebeat.com/2008/11/03/dreamforce-salesforcecom-adds-facebook-amazon-and-neil-young/

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11.03.08 – The Industry Standard, Dreamforce: Salesforce.com adds Facebook, Amazon and Neil Young
http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/11/03/dreamforce-salesforce-com-adds-facebook-amazon-and-neil-young

11.03.08 – vnunet.com, Salesforce launches CRM Winter '09 edition
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2229655/salesforce-crm-launches-winter

11.03.08 – ReadWriteWeb, Bring Your Own Data: Google Opens Up Visualization API
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_opens_visualization_api.php

11.03.08 – ReadWriteWeb, Facebook Puts On Suit, Dances With Salesforce.com
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_puts_on_suit_dances_with_salesforce.php

11.03.08 – CRN, Salesforce Opens Platform To Web, Social Networking
http://www.crn.com/software/212000208?cid=ChannelWebBreakingNews

11.03.08 – Valleywag, Facebook grows 20 percent in less than three months
http://valleywag.com/5075203/facebook-grows-20-percent-in-less-than-three-months

11.03.08 – Inside Facebook, Facebook and Salesforce.com Release New Tools for Building Force.com Apps with Facebook Data
http://www.insidefacebook.com/2008/11/03/facebook-and-salesforcecom-release-new-tools-for-building-forcecom-apps-with-facebook-data/

11.03.08 – The Official Google Blog, Visualizing data in the cloud
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/visualizing-data-in-cloud.html

11.03.08 – SmoothSpan Blog, Enterprise SaaS is Mainstream. Today.
http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/enterprise-saas-is-mainstream-today/

11.03.08 – CRM, Live Blogging from Dreamforce ‘08
http://www.destinationcrmblog.com/2008/11/03/live-blogging-from-dreamforce-08/

11.03.08 - Amazon Web Services Blog, Force.com for Amazon Web Services
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/11/forcecom-for-amazon-web-services.html

11.03.08 – ZDNet, Salesforce partners with Facebook, Amazon to spark more app development
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=10667

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11.03.08 – Seeking Alpha, Salesforce partners with Facebook, Amazon to spark more app development
http://seekingalpha.com/article/103707-salesforce-com-partners-with-amazon-and-facebook-to-spur-application-development

11.03.08 – Dow Jones Newswires, Salesforce.com Brings Its Allies Together In The Cloud
No URL

PICKED UP BY:
11.03.08 – CNNMoney.com, Salesforce.com Brings Its Allies Together In The Cloud
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200811031607DOWJONESDJONLINE000548_FORTUNE5.htm

11.03.08 – Fast Company.TV, Facebook and Salesforce.com (Video)
http://www.kyte.tv/ch/6118/262159

11.03.08 – InformationWeek, Salesforce.com's New Big Buddy: Amazon
http://www.informationweek.com/cloud-computing/blog/archives/2008/11/salesforcecoms_1.html

11.03.08 – CRM Buyer, Salesforce.com Adds Web Site Development Layer to Cloud Services
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/Salesforcecom-Adds-Web-Site-Development-Layer-to-Cloud-Services-65033.html

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11.03.08 – E-Commerce Times, Salesforce.com Adds Web Site Development Layer to Cloud Services
            http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/65033.html

11.03.08 – TechNewsWorld, Salesforce.com Adds Web Site Development Layer to Cloud Services
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Salesforcecom-Adds-Web-Site-Development-Layer-to-Cloud-Services-65033.html

11.03.08 – WebProNews, Salesforce is On Board
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/11/03/google-expands-another-api

11.03.08 – IDG News Service, Salesforce.Com Links with Amazon and Facebook
No URL

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            11.03.08 – CIO, Salesforce.Com Links with Amazon and Facebook
http://www.cio.com/article/458914/Salesforce.Com_Links_with_Amazon_and_Facebook

            11.03.08 – PC World, Salesforce.Com Links with Amazon and Facebook
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/153235/salesforcecom_links_with_amazon_and_facebook.html

            11.03.08 – NetworkWorld.com, Salesforce.Com Links with Amazon and Facebook
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/110308-salesforcecom-links-with-amazon-and.html

            11.03.08 – The Industry Standard, Salesforce.Com Links with Amazon and Facebook
http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/11/03/salesforce-com-links-amazon-and-facebook

11.03.08 – Reuters, Salesforce.com unveils new services, pushes its cloud
http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssTechMediaTelecomNews/idUSN0336133220081103

            PICKED UP BY:
            11.03.08 – Washington Post, Salesforce.com unveils new services, pushes its cloud
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/03/AR2008110302462.html

11.03.08 - InternetNews.com, Salesforce to Roll Web Hosting, With Force
http://www.internetnews.com/software/article.php/3782481

11.03.08 – CRN, Microsoft And Salesforce: Very Different Views Of The Cloud
http://www.crn.com/software/212000268

11.03.08 – Wall Street Journal, Three’s a Cloud for Salesforce.com, Facebook and Amazon.com
http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2008/11/03/threes-a-cloud-for-salesforcecom-facebook-and-amazoncom/

Hello Indy SFUG Member!

Please join me at the Indianapolis Salesforce User Group (SFUG) Meeting next Thursday, Nov. 20.  There will be a continental breakfast with some time to meet and greet with fellow members at 7:45am.  We will begin our presentations promptly at 8:15am to ensure everyone keeps on a schedule.

We are pleased to welcome Randy Kidd, Director of Alliances for the Central Region to share with us some of the exciting announcements that were made at DreamForce this year and, more importantly, what they mean to YOU as a Salesforce user.  Kidd will also cover many of the resources and tools that are available to SF users to help you on your way to SUCCESS!

Martha Leistikow and Adam Becker of Exact Target will present Salesforce.com and ExactTarget: Leverage your marketing investments and deliver results by making your Salesforce.com data actionable through the power of email.

If your company is interested in sponsoring an event, please contact me at dlaffey@ricssoftware.com or 515.333.4677.

I hope to see you there!

Danielle Laffey
Indianapolis SFUG Leader

Hello Everyone!

I have had a couple of requests from Indy Salesforce User Group members to try and meet up at Dreamforce.  For those of you that are going and are interested in meeting up, I thought I would post this so you can start a discussion thread. 

As for upcoming meetings.  I am currently trying to plan one for the week of Nov. 17. This meeting will be held to give those who did go to Dreamforce the opportunity to discuss what they learned and for those who were not able to attend, get some info from other users.  Details to follow.

I am still looking for companies to sponsor user group meetings.  Please contact me if your company may be interested.  This is a great opportunity for your company to get involved with the Indianapolis Saleforce User Group.  We have almost 100 members now!  We need your support!

I hope all is well!  Look for more info to follow on upcoming meetings.

Cheers,
Danielle Laffey
Indy Salesforce User Group Leader

Hello Everyone!

My apologizes for it being so long since we last met. I am in the process of putting together the schedule for the 2009 Indianapolis Salesforce User Group meetings.  There are over 100 user group members now, so finding space is a small challenge.

Please consider this a call out to all the Indy user group members! If your company would be interested in partially or fully sponsoring a meeting next year, please contact me.  I am available at dlaffey@ricssoftware.com or 515.333.4677 (direct line). Thanks so much for your help. 

I am looking forward to the 2009 Indianapolis User Group meetings.

Sincerely,

Danielle laffey 

Please join us for the 1st Indianapolis Salesforce User Group meeting on April 29 at 11:30am at 7820 Innovation Blvd in Indianapolis, IN.  The focus of the meeting will be to get to know each other and decide the best way to conduct effective and informative meeting in the future

• Meet & greet: Introductions
• User group discussion: What would you like to get out of these meetings?  What topics would you like to discuss?  How often would you like to have meetings?  Who can volunteer to host future meetings?  When is the best time to meet?

Sign up today so that you can stay informed of  meetings and events. Just complete the form to the left under Join Now! and select "Indianapolis" from the pull-down menu.  Once you've registered, you will receive detailed information on all Indy User Group events.  Hope to see you there!

We are  excited to announce the creation of a User Group for customers in the Indianapolis area.  The Southern Ohio group recently had a successful launch, but we know Cincinnati is a little far to drive.  Luckily, we have a couple of local users who have volunteered to lead.

We hope you will get involved!