On Wednesday February 17th I attended the event where Salesforce launched the private Beta of Chatter. Leaving aside the fact that you need an event to launch a private Beta, it was a good opportunity to see the progress that Chatter had made since the announcement at Dreamforce 2009. If you recall, I [...]
an evaluation of the Genesys Analyst day in 2010, including coverage of the iWD, SIP Server, and cloud-based Customer Service solution
Well, as usual I am late to break the news.
Salesforce introduced Chatter with great fanfare — and most everyone covered it in detail and analyzed it (Dion Hinchcliffe, Sameer Patel, and Michael Krigsman provided some of my favorite coverage).
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Salesforce has taken two separate paths in their progress towards becoming a established cloud vendor: separating the platform and the application. Although they are not two separate companies, that begins their path to becoming an enterprise-class provider, allows us to analyze both separately, and marks a milestone: they have finally grown up into a world-class [...]

