1) Salesforce Announces Dreamforce 2015, The Largest Software Conference on Earth
The conference that we’ve all been waiting for is almost here!
Salesforce announced this week their huge conference Dreamforce. Salesforce’s 13th annual Dreamforce event is expected to attract more than 150,000 people to register to attend and more than 10 million to join online.
Dreamforce will take place September 15-18, 2015, throughout Moscone Center and eight surrounding hotels in downtown San Francisco.
We have been talking a lot about what’s going to happen that week on our past posts. We invite you to ckeck them out but if you haven’t registered yet we sure have something that you might like, FREE Dreamforce expo passes, find out how to get your hands on them here.
So… Keep Calm Dreamforce is one week away!
http://www.salesforce.com/company/news-press/press-releases/2015/09/150908.jsp
2) Zayo Teams Up with Salesforce to Provide Dedicated, High-Performance Connectivity
Zayo Group is a global provider of bandwidth infrastructure services, which includes Ethernet, IP services, and dark fiber, Zayo’s network encompasses 84,000 route miles across the U.S. and Europe, and connects to more than 17,500 on-net buildings, providing connectivity to the majority of data centers and carrier hotels in the U.S.
Zayo is one of the many customer success stories of Salesforce, they use Salesforce end to end and this week they announced teaming up with Salesforce to enable customers to connect directly to their Salesforce environments via Zayo’s fibre-based connections. Zayo’s network services provide Salesforce customers with options for private connectivity transport across the US and Europe.
Zayo’s cloud connectivity will initially link to Salesforce Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Community Cloud, Analytics Cloud and Force.com. It provides flexible and scalable connectivity so multiple connections can be established initially or added over time.
“We are enabling customers to create this dedicated connectivity to their Salesforce environments simply, securely and cost-effectively” said Dennis Kyle, senior vice president of strategic market and business development at Zayo.
http://www.benzinga.com/news/15/09/5827457/zayo-teams-up-with-salesforce-to-provide-dedicated-high-performance-connectivity?utm_campaign=partner_feed&utm_source=marketwatch.com&utm_medium=web_click&utm_content=ticker_page
3) Salesforce App Cloud—A Unified Platform for Building Connected Apps, Fast
As the need for apps has increased, so have the requirements for building and running them; and the big challenge for IT departments is keeping up with the tremendous demand for apps. That’s why Salesforce came up with this service. App Cloud integrates the Force platform service with Heroku Enterprise and Lightning, and with new shared identity, data and network services in a unified partnership to empower every organization and every type of developer with everything they need to build apps fast.
App Cloud enables customers to quickly build the apps they need, in the way they want. Any builder can leverage the Lightning user experience point-and-click tools to create custom employee apps for any role and department. Every app is instantly mobile and social. Plus, there are pre-integrated, pre-vetted, and customizable grab-and-go apps available through the AppExchange.
The new Heroku Enterprise brings the functionality and scalability of Heroku for building engaging apps, with enterprise level control, such as single sign-on and role-based permissions. Networks can be integrated and isolated so you can run your own private cloud on top of Heroku.
Lead the app revolution.
http://www.salesforce.com/company/news-press/press-releases/2015/09/150910.jsp
4) Heroku Connect
Seamless Heroku and Salesforce Data Synchronization.
As Salesforce launched Salesforce App Cloud they also announced Heroku Enterprise. This is a new product that represents the fusion of all of the most innovative and complex learning around trust, deployment, connecting data, identity, and collaboration.
Unify your Heroku Enterprise applications with your Salesforce systems of record, for more engaging and personalized app experiences enriched with customer insights and connected with business process.
Heroku Connect syncs hundreds of millions of Salesforce with Heroku Enterprise applications in short time, without a single line of integration code.
Build great customer apps on Heroku, easily connect them to business processes in Salesforce.
https://www.heroku.com/connect
5) App of the Week
There are few industries and few parts of our everyday life that have not been touched — if not transformed — by apps, and that’s why we love providing you recommendations and news about app releases, so you and your company can keep updated.
Our App of the Weeek goes to RealZips since it was just recently that Salesforce released Salesforce lightning and RealZips is already Lightning Ready!
The native RealZips app provides Zip codes & business GeoData. Analytics & workflows: sales territory management, web-to-lead, lead assignment, ownership alignment & predictive analytics.
The RealZips GeoData is immediately integrated with existing CRM data, enriching & structuring all customer data with key geographic data. Geographic Key Metrics describe your geographical operations, market potential & business performance across all geographical levels, providing instant and native analytics.
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