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April 10, 2012 | Terry Luschen: Requirements Gathering for Integrations

When estimating integrations with Salesforce during the discovery phase of an implementation what questions should be asked? Read on for some ideas.

April 03, 2012 | Preston Johnson: Support Challenges in the Cloud

It’s understatement to say that the move from traditional infrastructure to cloud technologies has dramatically changed how support teams operate. Here’s why.

April 02, 2012 | Craig Isakson: iOS Salesforce SDK Tips

Recently I have had the opportunity to start to use the Salesforce SDK for iOS.  So far this has been a great tool which takes care of a lot of the leg work in dealing with the Salesforce REST api.  Until now I have mostly concentrated my efforts in the Android arena.  When I did start to write an app in iOS I had found that there were a couple of issues that I was having troubles with.

April 02, 2012 | Terry Luschen: Using APEX to call Salesforce Web Service

There are times where one Salesforce Org needs to communicate with another Salesforce Org. Please read on for details on forwarding messages between Orgs.

March 27, 2012 | Alyssa Dahl: Importance to Engage in Real Time

Towards the end of February, Sundog held an event at the Plains Art Museum called Social.Mobile.Cloud. Sponsored by Sanford Health, Sundog partnered with Salesforce and Google who brought representatives to speak at the afternoon gathering.

March 23, 2012 | Greg Ewing Lee: The Clouds are Shifting: Trends Toward Increased Cloud Adoption

As the cost of cloud solutions continues to decrease, the desire to move more core business functions to cloud is increasing. However, the quest for a cloud-centric enterprise has several roadblocks, many of which continue to lower.

March 22, 2012 | Chuck Tomanek: Force.com Unit Testing Improves With Spring ‘12 Release

Unit testing on the Force.com platform has always been one of its biggest challenges. Data differences between orgs as well as governor limits have made it difficult to write valid, reliable tests that work in all orgs. With the Spring ‘12 release, Salesforce is implementing some changes that aim to alleviate some of these pains.

February 23, 2012 | Danielle Naboulsi: Live Blog: The Social Mobile Cloud Event

Get a play-by-play of the 2012 Social Mobile Cloud Event with presentations from Sundog, Salesforce and Google representatives.

February 23, 2012 | Paul Bourdeaux: Mobile Stats for 2011

Today comScore released its Mobile Future in Focus for 2012, and in it there are some pretty interesting stats from 2011.

December 27, 2011 | Alyssa Dahl: The Power of Influence

“Empower your customers for their influence not just for their spend.” Matthew Thomson

October 26, 2011 | Alyssa Dahl: Facebook and Salesforce Leading the Direction for Businesses

I read an inspiring article the other day, Salesforce CEO: Facebook is Leading the Direction For Where ‘We’re Going As An Industry, by Rip Empson of Tech Crunch.  For those of you that don’t know what Salesforce is, it is a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software solution. But it’s more than just a CRM solution. As one of the leading software platforms in the cloud, Salesforce is changing the way businesses interact by making things more effective and efficient through lead management, chatter and social enterprise. Salesforce will help redefine the future of business through its focus on social enterprise.

September 29, 2011 | Ron Lee: Bankers Better Embrace the Social Enterprise

“It’s time for banking to completely embrace social technology. We need to move beyond paper, phone, and email folks.” This plea was not from an industry consultant, but from banker Bradley Leimer. He manages the online services group for Mechanics Bank in California. Leimer recently expressed his views in an industry blog Bank Think.