Authored by Phil Wainewright. The Web is moving up a gear. In the past ten years, our expectations of real-time information and engagement have been transformed by the Web, fundamentally changing the way we interact and do business. Today, the advent of cloud services from providers like Amazon.com, Google and Salesforce.com is adding a powerful new layer of pay-as-you-go automation to the Web landscape.
DreamFactory Software is the world's leading publisher of rich applications for next generation web service platforms. Our suite of business applications available on salesforce.com’s AppExchange use the DreamFactory runtime client, including DreamTeam, Carousel, FormFactory, OrgView, SnapShot, DoX, and Web Meeting Mashup, as well as a host of additional applications from other partners. Our client technology does a better job of protecting your privacy and security than any other method of consuming web services. This white paper discusses the advantages of our unique architecture and explains the security and privacy polices put in place by DreamFactory Software, Inc.
DreamFactory Software has pioneered the technology necessary to create best of breed native applications on the next generation of service platforms such as salesforce.com and WebEx Connect. We have created a powerful suite of products such as DreamTeam, Carousel, FormFactory, SnapShot and OrgView using our rich Interactive Development Environment (IDE) for web services. This white paper explores the significant advantages that our customers enjoy by subscribing to these native applications, versus alternative technologies that require separate servers and databases.
In brief, there are four primary advantages to DreamFactory’s native approach:
1) Native applications populate a single data store (e.g. AppExchange) and allow universal access to this data.
2) Native applications have a significant performance advantage.
3) Native applications leverage existing investment in business applications that access this data store (such as reporting).
4) Native applications built with DreamFactory ‘s IDE offer the most secure approach
With studies suggesting that business professionals now spend 40-50% of their time in meetings you would assume that we are perfecting the art of meeting. However, a closer look at the data says otherwise. It is estimated that half of all meetings are unproductive and 25% of any given meeting is spent on irrelevant issues. This paper looks at the problem from a technology perspective and discusses how next generation technologies can assist in materially increasing productivity not only of meetings, but of the corporate dynamic of studying data and coming up with actionable conclusions.
Understand the convergence of three events: 1) Internet Delivery 2) On Demand Platforms 3) and Rapid On Demand Application Development (ROAD) which has enabled the principle of CDI to be integrated into the entire Software Development process. This paper discusses these root enablers in the context of CDI and concludes with best practices for CDI based design.
Today, reporting technology is going through a major transformation—from large and expensive applications only accessible to a few trained individuals— to easy-to-use, highly effective web applications accessible to any business user. To date, leading on-demand CRM platforms like Salesforce have given you some visibility to manage lead capture, opportunity conversion and marketing campaign data. However, you still face endless hours mining data and preparing the reports needed to effectively run your business. If you are looking for better ways to easily and effectively track and measure key sales and marketing trends, run analytics for actionable decisions and you’ve outgrown static dashboards, you can turn this situation around by optimizing how you manage your existing process. For starters, you can understand and avoid the 7 warning signs in this 2 page paper.
