The launch of Spanning Salesforce 2.0 has generated a bit of a stir with the people who follow CRM and Enterprise RSS. Here's a sample of the reaction so far:
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“By the end of this year, CRM and other enterprise applications that don't offer standard RSS feeds will be a big step behind.”
—Dan Farber, Editor-in-Chief, ZDNet
“RSS is something every CRM vendor must add to its application. Salesforce.com users can access this capability today—without the vendor having to lift a finger.”
—Phil Wainewright, ZDNet
“A very, very smart idea. About time someone did this.”
—Paul Greenberg, author, CRM at the Speed of Light
“Cool!”
—Robert Scoble, Microsoft
“A great example of enterprise RSS.”
—Brad Feld, Mobius Venture Capital
“How cool is that?”
—Chad Dickerson, Yahoo!
“An important breakthrough in terms of information management and ease of consuming information.”
—Rok Hrastnik, MarketingStudies.net
“You gotta love it.”
—Ian Kennedy, Six Apart
Along with the coverage in the press and the blogosphere has come a surge in traffic, leading me to move the service to a more powerful server in a new datacenter. The cutover happened today, clearing the way for Spanning's next stage of growth.
I use a personal blackberry7250 as my main handheld deveice. Does spanningforce have any plans to help a consumer out with RSS feeds directly to persons blackberry ??
Posted by: /pd | September 16, 2005 at 12:42 PM
Spanning Salesforce will work with any RSS reader that supports Basic HTTP Authentication and SSL encryption, so if there is such a beast for Blackberry, it will "just work". Unfortunately I haven't found one yet. But I do have something in the works that may circumvent this problem. Stay tuned.
Posted by: Charlie Wood | September 16, 2005 at 12:54 PM