our company impletemented salesforce because SAP was too expensive. that is all.
What's Salesforce? (2019)
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#202This 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…
It's Microsoft Access for the web.
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#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Everytime I've been hired into an executive role I've cancelled our Salesforce subscription and productivity has gone up." ... Great observation. But what did you replace it with?
The answer is a bit more complex, but in short: A spreadsheet and process documentation.
I'd love a longer answer. You seem to be happy to give quips and tidbits, but no substance in your answers.
Great, you've replaced your CRM with Office365 spreadsheet and a documented process in a wiki. Your spreadsheet has history, so audit logs are captured and you can backup. You have a documented and adhered to process for altering data in the spreadsheet.
But depending on your use-case, Salesforce may never have been a good fit. If you're following processes that can actually be adhered to by reading a document to manage your business - your business is extremely mature, well defined and unchanging, has no bad actors (because hitting "Download" on the top-right literally exports all of the company private data) with little compliance requirements, and doesn't require international or external integration, and will never experience unprecedented growth.
If these assumptions are wrong, please share some detail because I'd love to hear about the workflow in your organisation.
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God that was a horrible piece of software, and a terrible email client. http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/lotus.htm
I got my start doing Lotus/Domino development and it was a surprisingly powerful system. We developed all kinds of internal workflow and document management tools that ran basically the entire company. The document store 'database' model it used reminds me very of the NoSQL movement that came over a decade later. One pretty amazing thing at the time (mid-late 90s) was that you also got usable web interface to all you…
One place I worked at had something similar as well, it's just that all my memories are of using it for mail, calendar and contacts. And the stupid log-in dialog!
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#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
On the other hand, ERPs and associated systems tend to involve a huge amount of work too.
Sure. And Oracle World and Sapphire are big shows too.
What are you basing your statement on? It is bigger than AWS at least in 2019
""Sep. 13, 2019 Updated: Sep. 13, 2019 10:29 p.m. Oracle OpenWorld, a tech conference with some 60,000 attendees" https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-wa...
"...From December 2 to December 6, we expect more than 60,000 attendees will spread out across six venues on the Las Vegas Strip, promising to make re:Invent 2019 the biggest re:Invent yet..." AWS re:Invent 2019
"...Well, here we are: a little over a week after Salesforce’s 17th Dreamforce. As a lush green forest burgeoned in downtown San Francisco, over 171,000 people from 120+ countries around the globe came together to have the time of their lives with fellow Trailblazers, learn how to help their customers succeed, and promote equality, sustainability, and trust — in short, to transform their businesses and the world we share..." https://www.salesforce.com/blog/dreamforce-2019-infographic/
Re: What's Salesforce? (2019)
#206Salesforce is amazing, in the sense that it truly lives up to its name. Everytime I've been hired into an executive role I've cancelled our Salesforce subscription and productivity has gone up. Its clunky, slow and overly complex if you ask me. But their success cannot be denied, thus they must have an amazing salesforce.
How did you measure productivity? I am very curious