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Salesforce Summer ‘08 Now Live

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A bit late in posting this since this was announced yesterday:

Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the market and technology leader in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), today announced that Salesforce Summer ‘08 is live to all 43,600 salesforce.com customers. Salesforce Summer ‘08 represents salesforce.com’s 26th release in 9 years and delivers the power of cloud computing to the enterprise. Part of the Force.com platform, Visualforce is now live in every edition of Salesforce, enabling users to develop any interface entirely in the cloud. Salesforce Content and Salesforce Ideas are also delivering new levels of customer success in Salesforce Summer ‘08 including the support of external communities, delivering true Web 2.0 collaboration capabilities to users globally. In total, more than 50 new CRM features are also live with Salesforce Summer ‘08, raising the bar for industry innovation.

A few interesting nuggets via Google search

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Was googling around earlier and found a few interesting nuggets that I thought I would share with everyone. I haven’t read most of them yet, however. I just saved a bunch of these PDFs for reading later.

• SaaS - An Overview - a good ppt by Microsoft on SaaS
• A Financial Model for ISVs Looking at SaaS
• Software as a Service in Asia Pacific: Expanding the Reach …
• SaaS Chapter Two: Six Accelerators for SMB Market Growth
• Innovation in the SaaS Ecos ystem: salesforce.com’s AppExchange Delivers Expanded Opportunities
• Software as a Service: Ride it while it’s hot! A Strategic Analysis
• Competition Intensifies For The SMB ERP Customer
• A Guide to Provisioning, Billing and Nurturing Users of Web Applications and On-Demand Solutions
• The Need for Enterprise Innovation

Enjoy!

IT Finance Connection Podcast: SaaS: Faster Change, Deeper IT Involvement

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IT Finance Connection had an interesting podcast with Ariel Kelman, Salesforce.com’s senior director of platform product marketing.

Ariel made a number of interesting points in the podcast:

• SaaS is good for companies and IT organizations that want to increase focus from infrastructure to innovation.
• IT organizations should consider SaaS applications just like other applications and should fit into the existing IT governance processes such as change management control.
• SaaS applications are easier to administer, customize, integrate. (This is an interesting point as customization and integration are often cited as the top concerns for not adopting SaaS.)
• IT organizations should involve business units early in the deployment process. (In theory, this is not all that different from on-premise apps.)
• With platforms such as Force.com, IT organizations and business owners can build applications in real-time together. (rapid prototyping.)
• According to Gartner, IT organizations spent 80% of their time on infrastructure and maintenance, and only 20% on innovation.

Definitely worth spending 15 minutes to listen to this.