Delivered Innovation has noticed a number of requests for entity relationship diagrams (ERD) for standard Salesforce objects within the Force.com developer community, and we have started a program to create these ERD documents in Visio / VSD format. The first ERD document that we are publishing is for the Spring ’10 Service Cloud. Subsequent documents will be published for Sales Objects, Task and Event Objects, Process Objects, and other objects within the Salesforce CRM and Force.com environments.
Please download and provide us with your feedback.
Delivered Innovation and SilverTree Systems are teaming up to provide business executives with an informative overview and peer-to-peer roundtable discussion of Cloud Computing and how this leading-edge technology can be leveraged to achieve breakthrough business results. Topics to be discussed include:
What Is Cloud Computing? How did we get here?
How does “The Cloud” help me?
Benefits
Risks and Mitigation Strategies
How does Cloud Computing change the way we do business?
Time to market acceleration
Business model enablement
Who are the players in Cloud Computing?
Amazon
Google
Microsoft
Salesforce.com
How do I determine my Cloud strategy?
Customer case studies
Adobe Systems
Polycom
School of Rock
How do I get started?
All attendees receive a copy of Jonathan Sapir’s book, Power in the Cloud : Using Cloud Computing to Build Information Systems at the Edge of Chaos.
Seating is limited to 12 business executives, so order your ticket today to reserve your place at the table.
Agenda
Friday, February 19
8:00 – 8:30 Continental breakfast and networking
8:30 – 9:10 Michael Topalovich, Delivered Innovation
9:20 – 10:00 Jonathan Sapir, SilverTree Systems
Jonathan Sapir is the CEO of SilverTree Systems and the author of Power in the Cloud : Using Cloud Computing to Build Information Systems at the Edge of Chaos.
Michael Topalovich is the founder and CTO of Delivered Innovation. Prior to Delivered Innovation, Michael was a senior IT leader with Siebel Systems where in 2003 he spearheaded the systems management team for Siebel CRM OnDemand, one of the first enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings.
Delivered Innovation CTO Michael Topalovich recently presented at the Day of Cloud conference in Chicago with Jonathan Sapir from SilverTree Systems. Michael and Jonathan discuss the Force.com platform from salesforce.com, and Michael’s code deep-dive begins at 32:11 of the video.
Thomas Bittman from Gartner cuts through some of the cloud computing hype and gives us a tempered viewpoint on mainstream cloud adoption. Overview of the four myths:
Bittman takes on Nick Carr’s “Big Switch” view of rapid proliferation of cloud-based services and argues that adoption will be substantial but gradual.
We’ve heard many SaaS and cloud computing skeptics try to minimize cloud computing by calling it a redressing of other philosophies / technologies, but in fact it is the culmination of many concepts and technologies.
Bittman gives us a great line with, “We’re not going to have a handful of megaproviders, we’re going to have thousands of providers, and it will be very Darwinian.”
The fourth myth cuts to the heart of a common cloud computing argument – some see cloud computing as simply a large-scale commodification of traditional IT infrastructure and platform services, whereas the bigger picture view of cloud computing is that the standardization of the lower stacks of the IT architecture will enable a focus on more innovative applications of technology to build new business models and solve once daunting business challenges.
