Hi Everyone,

Here is the finalized agenda for our next meeting:

Next meeting: Wednesday February 27^th from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM at www.opushotel.com 

Speaking first will be Fernando A. Labastida of www.pervasive.com. Fernando will be giving a presentation entitled "The Achilles heel of SaaS - solving the pain of data integration."

Second, will be Linda Webster of DataSea. Linda will be speaking on new productivity enhancement tools DataSea has created for Salesforce.com.

Third will be user group founder Adam Killam speaking on Salesforce Ideas. Salesforce Ideas enables companies build their own community Web sites to collaborate directly with partners, employees, or others in an interactive, online forum. Adam will be covering how to setup Salesforce Ideas for your organization and some innovative ways you can use the application to drive growth and success within your organization.

About Fernando:

Fernando Labastida is an account executive for Pervasive software covering the U.S. and Canadian West Coast, as well as Latin America.  He has worked both domestically and in the Latin American markets, for more than fifteen years. He has a Master's Degree from the University of California at Davis, and a Bachelors from the University of Texas at Austin. He has worked at companies such as Vignette Corporation, Inchcape Shipping Services, Rainmaker, and Commercial Video Systems. He has been instrumental in building the Latin American distribution channels for companies such as Pervasive Software, Echolab Switchers, and Rushworks Video Servers. He lives in Austin, TX and is a happily married father of four children, ages 2 to 16. My blog: http://labastida.com.

About Pervasive:

Pervasive Software (NASDAQ: PVSW) helps companies get the most out of their data investments through integration software. Pervasive's agile, multipurpose integration and data quality platform accelerates the sharing of information between multiple databases, applications, or hosted business systems,allows customers to reuse the same software for diverse integration scenarios, and enables customers to manage the quality of their data.

Click here to view Pervasive’s Data Integrator and Data Profiler

About Linda:

Linda Webster serves as CFO and business developer for DataSea, Inc.  She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering from Boston University, and an M.B.A. in Finance from California State University at San Diego. She has worked as a software and electrical engineer at Bechtel Corporation, and has spent over fifteen years working with private investment.

About DataSea

DataSea is a data architecture and language processing program. It takes your data and lets you tell your computer what you want. You can find information and do things, like make calls and send email, in one step. Save time by reducing the need for navigation and clicking. DataSea gives answers and executes actions based on your input by using human-like reasoning to find the relevant connections among data. Its architecture gives natural language access to relational databases, as well as unstructured data. DataSea, Inc. operates in North Vancouver, BC and Berkeley, CA.

About Adam

An active member of the Salesforce.com community for over two years now, Adam regularly attends and speaks at Salesforce.com related events. As an Internet marketing and Salesforce.com specialist, Adam recently spoke at Salesforce.com’s annual user conference, Dreamforce 2007 on the Salesforce for Google Adwords integration as well as the Vancouver City tour in November.

By day he manages the web marketing and CRM needs for a national investment bank using his evenings to help a select group of clients grow their business using the web and CRM.

Additionally he founded Salesforcetimes.com, the web’s most active news source on Salesforce.com and regularly hosts the Vancouver Salesforce.com User group since founding it in 2006.

For more information visit adamkillam.com.