Category Archives: AppExchange

AppExchange App Review: Chatter Recall

Posted on October 1, 2011 by lkao

икони цениWhat: A great free AppExchange app that allows Chatter users to automatically find archived answers whenever they post a question.

The Challenges this App Solves:

  1. When a Chatter user makes a post in the form of a question, responses/answers in the Comments aren’t archived for re-use. Similar questions could be posted within Chatter, and the institutional knowledge isn’t preserved.
  2. With Salesforce pushing for continued use of Chatter within a company, it is currently hard to take advantage of existing information that could already be archived in a variety of other Salesforce objects like: Solutions, Answers, Articles.
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How to Create a Salesforce.com Custom App

Posted on October 21, 2009 by lkao

The ability to create a custom application on top of Salesforce’s native platform has existed for several years. It’s been known by several names in the past (AppExchange apps, custom apps) and now, Force.com Apps.

Finally this video provides a nice summation in just a few minutes, to the essential steps in building your first custom Salesforce app.

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Intuit Copies Salesforce’s AppExchange

Posted on October 10, 2008 by lkao

It took me a while to post this, but last month, Intuit announced its own version of Salesforce.com’s AppExchange, but for its Quickbase set of on-demand applications for small businesses.

I kicked around with Quickbase many years ago – the concept has been around for a while, before the AppExchange even launched. I found it hard back then to make some basic entity relationships between objects work…but back then I was trying to replicate SFA with add-on modules, and my expectations and familiarity with Salesforce had spilled over to my Quickbase expectations.

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Force.com Checkout – Coming Soon!

Posted on September 8, 2008 by lkao

Looks like Salesforce.com’s Force.com Checkout is finally debuting later this month, on September 22.

I don’t have any preview images of it yet, but the hope is that an online billing and ordering system can help the company more cost effectively manage the tons of customers that want to order from an increasingly long selection of a la carte add-on items.

In a note sent out to administrators, we’re told:

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