Category: Appirio
Appirio $1 Million Dollar Cloudsourcing Guarantee
April 23rd, 2010, No Comments
In case you missed this yesterday, Appirio announced, “Appirio will run your IT in the cloud, and save you at least a million dollars”! Yes, that is the proverbial, “put your money where your mouth is”. So what is “cloudsourcing”? Cloudsourcing means sourcing complete solutions to run your business on the cloud, through a combination [...]
Appirio Announces PS Connect at Google Campfire One
March 10th, 2010, No Comments
Last night at Google Campfire One we demonstrated PS Connect, a new extension to our PS Enterprise product that allows service professionals to run their business directly from their Gmail inbox. We were the closing presentation for the night and you can view the video of the demo below. It’s roughly a 5 minute video [...]
Appirio Company Retreat 2010
January 28th, 2010, No Comments
We had our first annual company retreat at the Boulder Resort in Phoenix AZ this week as a chance to recharge and focus on our goals for 2010. Since 75% of the company works virtually, it’s nice to get together with 150 of your closest friends. There as quite a bit of eating, drinking, laughing [...]
Calling a REST Web Service (JSON) with Apex
January 6th, 2010, 8 Comments
Cross-posted at the Appirio Tech Blog. Using JSON RESTful Web Services with Salesforce.com opens up your org to a number third-party integration opportunities (Google, Yahoo!, Flickr, bespoke, etc.). JSON support isn’t baked into the Force.com platform but Ron Hess at Salesforce.com has created a JSON parser which will do the heavy lifting for you. Last [...]
Performing Lookups and Transformations with Talend
December 22nd, 2009, No Comments
I recently did a video on how to use Talend Open Studio to import data into Salesforce.com. One of the missing features in the video was transforming data via lookups. Luckily Ward Loving just posted a fantastic tutorial on the Appirio Tech Blog showing how to do lookups to other input files or databases while performing [...]
Dreamforce '09 Hackathon Coverage
December 8th, 2009, No Comments
Dana Le posted recap of the DF09 Hackathon with the results of the competition. Joe Krutulis and James Eitzmann (both from Appirio; just check out the shirt!) won the intermediate category with a really cool geo location Twitter app (just what the world needs — another Twitter app). Kyle Roche and I came in second [...]
Force.com Demo with Twilio
November 28th, 2009, 2 Comments
Cross-posted at the Appirio Tech Blog. During Dreamforce 09 Kyle Roche and I participated in the Developer Hackathon. We hacked-up an application using Force.com and Twilio for inbound and outbound calling. We were only allotted two hours so we were not able to finish off the application during the hackathon. Here is the final demo [...]
NOW I Get Chatter!!
November 20th, 2009, No Comments
As part of Appirio I was exposed to Chatter before the public announcement. I have to admit that when I originally first saw it I wasn’t really impressed. I understand that people, applications, documents, etc. can Chatter but to me it seemed just like another social network that I would have to check in addition [...]
Salesforce.com Robot for Google Wave
November 13th, 2009, No Comments
Cross-posted at the Appirio Technology Blog This is a small Google Wave robot that interacts with Salesforce.com to display contacts, accounts and opportunities. The robot is currently a work in progress as I’ve been busy with other work projects, getting ready for Dreamforce 09 and working on a Twilioforce demo. If you have any ideas [...]
Anatomy of a Wave
November 10th, 2009, No Comments
There’s alot of buzz at Appirio around Google Wave. Apparently we know people at Google as we have our entire domain on Google Wave. We have teams using it for presales as well as project delivery. Kyle Roche gave a company-wide demo a couple of days ago and it raised a number of questions and [...]
