A Mac-user's Salesforce.com survival tools - Download Squad. If you work in the Fortune 1000, chances are pretty good that you've dealt with Salesforce.com, the web-based Customer Relationship Management service that has exploded in popularity over the last year or so. Salesforce.com provides a (very useful) plug-in for synchronizing Outlook contacts, tasks, and e-mails with the web site's database for reporting and federation... Which makes Salesforce.com a dream for Windows Office users. But if you have a Macbook under your arm, you probably aren't using Outlook. More than likely, you're using the suite of apps Apple provides for personal information management on Mac OS X--Apple Mail, Address Book, and iCal. The first of these is a great utility called SF3 from Pocket Soap. Pocket Soap also makes Maildrop--a script for Apple Mail and Microsoft Entourage that will copy messages to Salesforce.com--very handy.
Tags: crm, mac, salesforce, salesforce.com, shareware. AppExchange - On-Demand Business Applications from salesforce. O'Reilly Network -- An Introduction to Salesforce.com's AppExchange. By Tony Stubblebine 11/13/2006 This is part one of a three-part series on how to build and distribute applications on Salesforce's AppExchange. I attended Salesforce's Dreamforce conference last month because I'd heard that Salesforce has been making a big effort to build a platform that was friendly to developers. I expected to be confronted with a pile of corporate-speak and a lot of vaporware, but what I found was much more surprising.
Six different keynote presenters talked about mashups, and one-third of customers in attendance talked about wanting to build or purchase mashups. Two main things set Salesforce apart from other companies building development platforms. This series of articles will show you how to build and distribute an application on AppExchange.
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