Comments on: Marc Benioff’s enterprise ambitions (first look at Salesforce Chatter)

By: seo for website

seo for website — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:55:19 +0000

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By: jbholston

jbholston — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:10:36 +0000

Hi Robert — we have over 2 million enterprise seats deployed for NewsGator SocialSites — in SharePoint environments. we're running hard to keep up with the appetite orgs/I.T. have for Social SharePoint. SP at over 105 mill seats ww now — multiples of SF.com. Good to see Benioff jump onto the bandwagon.

By: Socialwok

Socialwok — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:40:56 +0000

Microsoft has a great enterprise monopoly and distribution advantage who is reason for the adoption they have at the large enterprise segment. However, the world is changing and there are certain trends like cloud computing, growing adoption of advance IT at the small medium business segment. I believe that is a great opportunity for emerging companies and startups.

The premise that Marc spoken about regarding why enterprise social could not be more social like facebook is exactly the reason why I started my company Socialwok -a business social networking service for Google Apps. Our users use Google Apps account to login into Socialwok, share messages, files and existing Google Docs/Calendar from Gmail. (http://socialwok.com/tour_gapps)

I believe Salesforce chatter is quite disruptive – connecting business applications + social feeds as it brings together salesforce trapped data and connects that to a social process. There are also other interesting platforms where business data is trapped like Google Apps.

Google Buzz also brings an interesting dimension. At Socialwok, we are vey excited about Buzz. It extends Socialwok’s capabilities even more. Big announcements coming from us on feed based sharing on the enterprise + buzz Keep updated from our blog http://blog.socialwok.com

Ming

Disclosure: I am CEO of Socialwok (http://socialwok.com/tour), Business Social Networking for Google Apps. We provide to businesses in general in particular Google Apps users the ability to do microblogging, collaboration using feeds.

By: John Head

John Head — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:29:17 +0000

Robert – this is a great article about a very cool solution, and I respect your writing greatly, but your line “5. This sticks another nail into Lotus Notes. Enough said.” is just silly here. Why?

1. You provide no context or validation to the statement.
2. Have you ever used Notes? Looked at any of the stuff going on, like integration with Gist, Tungle, LinkedIn, and others? Looked at the numerous open source solutions coming as Notes plug-ins like Wildfire? http://www.matnewman.com/webs/personal/matblog….
3. The power of Notes is that it integrates with stuff like Salesforce, and so many other things out there.

Please, stop making generalizations about the Notes market if your not knee deep into it. I spend my time in the Lotus, Microsoft, and open source world- and there is plenty of room for all three. And all three are having successes and losses.

As much as I hear people talk about this anti-MS kick, I am hearing an anti-Google sentiment as well. I hear it about Apple as well – app store lock in and still too high of priced hardware. The reality is people who go to tech conferences need something to bitch about Sharepoint is a billion dollar brand – and is continuing to grow. Great to see folks like Salesforce push everyone else to build better solutions.

By: consultski

consultski — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:44:31 +0000

Reminded me a bit of Sony's “placement” ploys in “Last Action Hero” … and now that they only brew the cost-cutter heart-burn special PP, it was a disappointment. Benioff is always a great interview. I could not believe SF is only 11 years old.