Surfwriter to Implement Social Networking for the Enterprise

The Surfwriter Cloud Computing Team is energized and inspired by the new collaboration possibilities offered by the soon-to-be-released Salesforce.com Social Media Module called "Chatter", announced by Marc Beniof, CEO of Salesforce.com during the keynote of this year's Dreamforce Global Gathering in San Francisco.

Salesforce.com could already be integrated with Facebook and Twitter, so how will Chatter be different? Chatter will be like having Facebook and Twitter combined together and private to your Enterprise, seamlessly integrated with your Salesforce.com Org and compliant with your security configurations. But there's more: Chatter will be accessible via the Saleforce.com API (which opens up limitless possibilities for integration) and with Chatter not just people will be able to post messages - you're standard and custom objects will be able talk to you're team via their own feeds. These are just a few of the reasons why we believe that Chatter will completely transform the way you collaborate within your Enterprise.

At Surfwriter, we recognize how importance of keeping our customers in step with major paradigm shifts such as social media, so we're already working with the Salesforce.com Platform Team to ensure that Surfwriter can deliver the highest level of knowledge, insight and expertise when called upon to assist you with leveraging the power of Chatter in your cloud computing environment.

If you missed Dreamforce this year, don't despair. You can watch keynotes and join in the social media conversations at http://www.salesforce.com/dreamforce/DF09/site.

In addition, the Surfwriter team can fill you in on the latest developments from Dreamforce and we're ready to help you with solutions for all your cloud computing needs.

Why not contact Surfwriter today to find out how we can help your business?

Surfwriter Releases New Version of Sales Forecasting App: Surfwriter Products Manager

Surfwriter has released a new version of the the revolutionary Sales Forecasting App: Surfwriter Products Manager. The new version (1.6) of Products Manager features an improved user interface and is compatible with all three types of Opportunity Product Quantity and Revenue Schedules.

Surfwriter Products Manager helps sales teams to improve the quality and accuracy of their sales forecasts by efficiently maintaining accurate monthly Product Quantity & Revenue forecasts in Salesforce.

For more information see Surfwriter Products Manager on the force.com appexchange or view the Surfwriter Products Manager Online Demo

Salesforce.com Hires Surfwriter for Google App Engine API

Jotham Fisher-Smith, Founder and CEO of Surfwriter, Inc worked with Salesforce.com on development, documentation and publishing of the New Force.com for Google App Engine released by Salesforce.com December 8th, 2008.

Force.com for Google App Engine is a Python library and test harness that lets you access the Force.com Web services API from within Google App Engine applications. Once it is installed in your Google App Engine application, that application can start to seamless make callouts to the Force.com Web services API. This API lets you query and manipulate data in your Force.com environment - effectively letting you tap into the Force.com platform from within the application.

For more information see: Force.com for Google App Engine

Labels: Apex, API, Force.com, Google, Salesforce.com

Surfwriter to Present at Dreamforce 2008!

Jotham Fisher-Smith, founder and CEO of Surfwriter Inc has been invited by SaaS leader Salesforce.com, to present at Dreamforce 2008, the largest SaaS event of the year!

Mr. Fisher-Smith will be presenting SaaS application development techniques for the Force.com Platform in: "Build Any UI for Any App Using Visualforce"; in which he will be discussing how Apex and Visualforce can be used to rapidly design, develop, and deploy complete and comprehensive applications in the cloud.

Join Surfwriter at Dreamforce 2008 and witness the next generation of cloud computing!

Salesforce.com Hires Surfwriter for Google Data API Project

Jotham Fisher-Smith, Founder and CEO of Surfwriter, Inc worked with Salesforce.com on development, documentation and publishing of the New Force.com Toolkit for Google Data APIs released by Salesforce.com June 23rd, 2008 at Tour de Force in Santa Clara, CA.

The Force.com Toolkit for Google Data APIs makes it easy to develop Force.com applications that make the most of the capabilities of Google Data APIs, including read and write access to data and content in Google Apps. The toolkit provides you direct access to the Google Data APIs from Force.com's Apex code, allowing the easy creation of new user experiences and Web applications that connect directly to Force.com's database, integration, Apex programming language, and Visualforce user interface capabilities.

The Google toolkit is a free and open-source set of tools and services that developers can use to take advantage of Google Data APIs from within Force.com. The goal of the toolkit is to make Google Data APIs - starting with Spreadsheets, Documents and Calendar - first class citizens of the Force.com environment. Specifically, the toolkit exposes these APIs directly within Apex, making it easier to access them natively from Force.com apps and providing tighter integration between the platforms with less developer effort.

For more information see: The Force.com Toolkit for Google Data APIs