It seems like the Summer'08 Release was just out -- I still haven't been able to take advantage of all the features I wanted to turn-up yet.  I was hoping to implement the Analytic Snapshots last month, but that got side-tracked.  Instead, I've been doing a ton of Apex / Visualforce page work, kicking out some sweet customizations / enhancements for my organizations Case management application.

What about you?  What have you done with Summer'08?

Don't blink ... the Winter'09 Release will be here sooner than you think!  In fact, I got a alert reminder that the server pod that hosts my organizations instance of Salesforce.com will be updated October 10th.  Yikes!  That's only a few weeks away!

Want to see what's coming in Winter'09?  Check out this list:  http://ideas.salesforce.com/popular/coming_in_winter_09

There are a lot of neat things, and my favorite one is already topping the list:  Scheduled emailing of reports.  At my organization, we already take full advantage of the Scheduled Dashboards feature (which came out in Spring'08).  This feature allows you to automatically refresh and mail a dashboard from SFDC to a group of users, and I turned this feature up as soon as it became available.  Immediately, users asking if I could automate the same feature with some custom reports.  This feature will be handy, especially for communicating with Sr. Management!

Other neat stuff coming down the pipe:

• Storage capacity is going up
• Lots of new features for the Ideas app (ability to add pictures, status fields, idea moderators, de-dupe / merge tools, rich-content posts)
• Ability to package Visualforce pages (boo-yah!)
• Workflow from Case Comments (ability to update Case status when a customer adds a comment from the SSP or Web Portal -- very nice!)
• Give users ability to EDIT case comments (my tech team has been begging for this!)

Here are the Release Notes for Winter'09:
https://na1.salesforce.com/help/doc/en/salesforce_winter09_release_notes.pdf

We'll have to dedicate some time during the October NHUG meeting around the Winter'08 Release, ya think?