October 14, 2006

Intelligent Business with Salesforce

-- By Pushpa Sathish, Staff Writer

Salesforce.com just opened its portals to business intelligence software from Business Objects. Crystal reports and the Beta version of business widgets are now available to users of AppExchange. Data from Salesforce applications can be leveraged to create complex reports using Crystal, and to measure business performance using the widgets. TMC Net reports:

Customers can also access pre-built reports—including pipeline forecasting, sales by geography and product segmentation. The new business widgets help reduce the time needed to complete everyday tasks such as tracking closed revenue, looking up contacts, and spotting neglected leads.

Salesforce has been making waves in the SaaS industry by adding new capabilities to its AppExchange.

 

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Have you seen www.blueboxwidget.com ? It's a solution that takes widgets firmly into business application via desktop reporting and feeds. Sexy, and user friendly too. It would work quite well in conjunction with this kind of Mash-Up and fits neatly in a Web2.0 SOA type of scenario.

Posted by: WidgetFan | Nov 21, 2006 4:48:09 AM

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