Post by: Sandra Lo | May 15, 2013
We made a little noise today by reporting a record Q1 2013 in both bookings and run rate, with total revenue increasing in the first quarter by more than 90% year-over-year. It’s been a tremendous 2013 so far for our 3.5 year old company but we only got to this point because of the support…
Post by: Sandra Lo | May 14, 2013
Continuing on my theme of putting the spotlight on those behind the scenes at FinancialForce.com, I had a lively discussion with Cindy Shibutani, Inside Sales Manager, about the importance of making the best first impression and how to have fun while doing it. Q: Hi Cindy, what is your role at the company? A: I…
Post by: Liz Schofield | May 10, 2013
The annual UK Salesforce event is always a hectic but exciting time. This year we were looking forward to the newly named ‘Salesforce Customer Company Tour’ at the Excel centre on 2nd May. We were up bright and early handing out bottles of fresh orange juice to the delegates as they arrived at the Hall…
Post by: David Schach | May 8, 2013
I saw a presentation by a salesforce.com employee recently, and it included the usual slides that one sees at all salesforce.com presentations: Born cloud, reborn social; mainframe to PC to mobile; becoming a customer company, etc. The presenter talked about why using Salesforce is so beneficial for a company, and she said something that we…
Post by: Jo Birtle | May 7, 2013
Over 60 customers attended our first UK customer day which took place in London this past Friday. That’s the same attendance we had at our first US customer day held in San Francisco last September. Despite some late nights spent at various Customer Company Tour after-parties the night before – including our own river cruise…
Post by: Jason Wu | May 1, 2013
Don’t we all love a good before & after success story? In this month’s customer spotlight, Lynne Taylor, Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) at RSI Relo, an international relocation company, tells a powerful success story of how RSI increased their ROI by integrating FinancialForce Accounting with their operations system on the Force.com platform. Before moving their…
Post by: Agustina Garcia | April 29, 2013
Let’s start with a definition straight from the Salesforce website. A Permission Set is a collection of settings and permissions that give users access to various tools and functions. I’m sure that you are thinking that Profiles do the same but the main difference between Profiles and Permission Sets is that while I can assign…
Post by: Andrew Fawcett | April 24, 2013
This third series article describes the Domain Layer, and presents Martin Fowler’s Domain Model pattern, suggesting that code be structured using OOP techniques. Latest post on the DeveloperForce Wiki: Apex Enterprise Patterns – Domain Layer
Post by: Jo Birtle | April 23, 2013
Following the huge success of our first ever customer day held in San Francisco last September, I am greatly looking forward to our first UK customer day being held on May 3rd. With a 90% increase in revenue run rate in 2012, almost achieving our goal of doubling in size year on year, it wasn’t…
Post by: Sandra Lo | April 19, 2013
One of the content themes I hope to carry on in this blog is showcasing the many individuals from different departments who’ve been part of FinancialForce.com’s growth. Last time, I had a chance to speak with Melissa Hmielowski, our HR Director about what it’s like to work here. Today, I had an opportunity to interview…
