Comments on: Dreamforce 2009 Predictions

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:06:11 +0000

I wouldn’t be surprised to hear about a new partnership (last year was facebook) but, as a developer, these announcements are always lame and boring. I want to here about new features and products that I can use to make my product better. For the past three years salesforce.com has made some type of major product announcement and I hope this year is no different.

By: Mike Leach

Mike Leach — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:22:53 +0000

Twitter will eventually figure out how to launch a Twitter Pro service for ~$50 per year for managing “cases” tweeted about brands, potentially making SForce’s cloud service integration strategy obsolete.

Twitter and Google are both poised to become a new CRM alternative, so this may be more about keeping (potential) enemies close.

By: George Scott

George Scott — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:54:34 +0000

As a followup to my comment earlier, I noticed that twitter is now a Strategic Cloud Sponsor for dreamforce (http://www.salesforce.com/dreamforce/DF09/site/explore/sponsors/). I don’t think twitter would be there unless there is going to be a big joint announcement. Google is also a Strategic Cloud Sponsor, and could also be part of the announcement (Google Wave?), but Google and salesforce already have a well-established strategic relationship.

By: Mike Leach

Mike Leach — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:42:03 +0000

Disregard my comment. SForce says their new user community was built by an outside implementation partner, and that there’s no immediate productization plans (although they’re happy to refer to the imp partner if you want something similar).

By: George Scott

George Scott — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:55:25 +0000

I would be surprised to see a major new UI from salesforce. They tend to be more incremental when it comes to end-user features. I’m sure they have been working on a new UI, as their current UI is very dated, but I bet they will roll it out in phases over time. I would love to be proven wrong.

I think the big announcement will be around social networking/collaboration/communities similar to what Mike said. They have been doing a lot of work in this area recently (twitter, facebook, google wave) and salesforce likes to ride the hype waves. This was hinted at by Parker Harris in an interview recently.

I also expect rebranding of Apex and VisualForce to “force.com code” and “force.com pages” based upon the dreamforce session names and hopefully some improvements will come to both.

By: Mike Leach

Mike Leach — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:55:09 +0000

My guess for the surprise announcement would be discussion forum communities.

By: Rajesh

Rajesh — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:34:12 +0000

I have been waiting for Drag and drop for quite sometime now. Hope it is announced this dreamforce.

By: Jeff Douglas

Jeff Douglas — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:30:59 +0000

You know now that you mention it, we have seen very little improvements in Visualforce. I hope this is true!

I have a long-shot prediction. Salesforce will announce a pilot where the platform will run full-blown Java.