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Force.com + Visual Process Manager = Vanilla Layer Cake Theory

February 12, 2010 Blog by brenda michelson

Salesforce.com just added a powerful new tool to its Force.com development platform, a Visual Process Manager:

“The Visual Process Manager brings the power of Cloud Computing to Business Process Apps. Now you can visually draw any business process and instantly deploy it in the cloud with no code, no software and no infrastructure.  The Visual Process Manager helps companies easily automate specific business process like call center scripting, sales quotes, and new employee on boarding.” 

According to a post on TechCrunch:

“The technology powering the Visual Process Manager is based on technology acquired from Informavores, call scripting startup Salesforce bought last year.

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100-day Cloud Watch: Surveying the Cloud Computing Surveys

January 14, 2010 100-days by brenda michelson

As I mentioned on Tuesday, I’m dedicating 100-days worth of research sessions to explore “enterprise cloud computing considerations”.  My first topic is adoption trends:

  • What are organizations doing, or planning to do, with cloud computing? 
  • What types of cloud computing environments are being used, considered and/or ignored?
  • What industries are leading and lagging adoption? 
  • What use cases are being fulfilled, in part or in full, by cloud computing offerings? 
  • What are the major drivers and expectations?

To get started, I’m surveying the cloud computing surveys.  Certainly, I expect to see security noted as a big concern, and operating expense versus capital outlay as a driver.  In fact, I’ll cover each of those points in later days, as business risk and economic considerations, respectively.   What I’m looking for in my survey of the surveys are observations, trends and even predictions, beyond the headlines.

[Written hours later]  Admittedly, one thing I didn’t factor in was the time consuming survey weeding process.  I’ve narrowed the body of work by date, source and depth of available information.  As a result, I’ll be reviewing the following surveys/papers:

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