Is it just me or does the Apex screenshot look better than many enterprise websites we see nowadays?
What's Salesforce? (2019)
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#32I really enjoy these articles. I don't know a ton about Retool, but I know these articles are often written by or in the style of their Growth analyst, Justin Gage (https://randomshit.dev/) who seems to be fantastic at writing articles about what these are and how they work in his own right.
These types of posts are a refreshing change from what company blogs have become (or maybe always were?): garbage vendor content pushing their agenda.
I understand how Retool could be used to do some really cool stuff on top of Salesforce, but this post is also just an informative expose of an industry giant.
Justin recently did another one about Accenture, whom I worked for a while back, and really appreciate the story that is being told.
Kudos for these fantastic posts. I look forward to reading these every time i see reool.com pop up.
Re: What's Salesforce? (2019)
#33This is a good article and history is Salesforce. Another shorter developer focused perspective: Salesforce is a relational database editor. You can create tables, columns, and relationships, app in a nice UI without writing code. You get automatic views and edit forms for records in the tables. And the whole thing is built on a platform where you can write custom sandboxed code to manipulate those records, or expose…
How’s that really different from MS Access?
It's not unreasonable to say Salesforce was MS Access / Filemaker in the cloud, and the cloud made all the difference.
Re: What's Salesforce? (2019)
#34Its not very promising when you really don’t understand the biggest player in your space
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#35Is it just me or does the Apex screenshot look better than many enterprise websites we see nowadays?
It’s just you. It’s not terrible but looks like something out of the 90s and has a “detergent newspaper ad” vibe to it.
Re: What's Salesforce? (2019)
#36This is a good article and history is Salesforce. Another shorter developer focused perspective: Salesforce is a relational database editor. You can create tables, columns, and relationships, app in a nice UI without writing code. You get automatic views and edit forms for records in the tables. And the whole thing is built on a platform where you can write custom sandboxed code to manipulate those records, or expose…
AirTable is also a relational database editor with a nice UI. I don't know if you could compare the two though.
You can. Airtable is what salesforce would look like if it were built today. Because CRM is so dominated by salesforce though, Airtable's defaults are not CRM and it doesn't market itself as such.
Re: What's Salesforce? (2019)
#37Previous discussion in 2019 with 234 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20277115
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#38This was a great write-up.
I shared it with a friend that recently joined them.
Re: What's Salesforce? (2019)
#39My company had 3 instances at one point after acquisitions. Two of them got merged so we’re stuck with two because of the number of customizations and the different sales approaches / teams between the two divisions.
One of them upgraded to lightning required by some feature. The experience nice with lightning (even slower) has been worse than classic. Meanwhile the other instance is till on classic.
We made the mistake of embedding business logic into sales force and integrated with their API only later to find out it can take upwards of a minute to just convert a lead to a contact via API depending on the current load on the system.
Enterprise systems are fun.
Re: What's Salesforce? (2019)
#40Nothing against Salesforce but please don't call it a software company. They are not a software company but rather an investor. They invest and acquire other companies. The majority of their revenues still come from their investments rather than their products. To their credit they have been doing some great investments over the years, but they have no capabilities of building anything themselves. Now, I know all tec…
Why can't they be both? They literally are a software company. And yes, they acquire other software companies.
Plenty of companies in other industries (e.g. consumer goods) are conglomerates, often a result of acquisitions - it doesn't make them pure "investors."