http://cloudforce.co.uk/blog Salesforce.com Consultants Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:02:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you are located in the East Midlands we may able to help you to obtain grant funding for your QuickStart under the Train to Gain program.]]> http://cloudforce.co.uk/blog/2010/03/18/news/ I have just read a blog post where someone talks about 90 days as really short implementation time in contratst with a typical 18 to 24 month implementation for a CRM system. Some implementations can be even shorter. So for users who are happy with the standard Salesforce.com B2B CRM model I have [...]]]> http://cloudforce.co.uk/blog/2008/12/17/scrum-and-salesforce/ A lot of the work that I do is helping people get started with Salesforce.com and we sometimes deliver this help as fixed time package of work. Now these work packages (QuickStarts) are pretty short engagements (3 to 5 days) and we ask the clients to do some pre-work so that they can get the [...]]]> http://cloudforce.co.uk/blog/2008/12/07/its-not-just-technology/ In a recent interview with the Guardian Richard Stallman GNU founder and Free Software campaigner said that Cloud Computing is a trap http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.computing.richard.stallman "One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control," he said. "It's just as bad as using a proprietary program. Do your own computing on [...]]]> http://cloudforce.co.uk/blog/2008/11/29/gnu-force-com/ Salesforce.com has been a leader in cloud computing since its inception. Although launched as on demand CRM solution other SaaS applications have always been part of the vision. You only have to see the No Software logo to realise that. Two years ago Salesforce launched the Force platform and more recently VisualForce to enable [...]]]> http://cloudforce.co.uk/blog/2008/11/24/salesforce-in-the-cloud/ I must admit this is not the first blog I have attempted. My original idea was to blog about general marketing issues but of the three posts that I made 2 were about Salesforce.com and then I stopped for a while because I couldn't really think of a direction to take. So as I [...]]]> http://cloudforce.co.uk/blog/2008/10/30/welcome-forcists/