Software as a Service
Spring '08 showcases two brand-new applications: Salesforce Ideas and Salesforce Content. Salesforce.com customers can now tap into the power of their communities with applications that bubble the best user content and ideas to the top. Spring '08 also delivers more than 50 new CRM features. Read more about what’s new in Spring '08.
Platform as a Service
With the Spring '08 release, salesforce.com introduces development as a service, the world's first set of on-demand tools and services for the developer community. These new technologies unite the productivity of development and IT collaboration tools with the power of the Force.com platform as a service. Read more about Force.com and development as a service.
Two New Applications: Salesforce Content and Salesforce Ideas
Deliver Relevant Content to Every User
With Spring '08, your team can use Salesforce to share unstructured content such as documents, presentations and much more. The new Salesforce Content application takes the best features of the consumer Web and applies them to enterprise content management. Users can use tagging, full-text search, community ratings, and subscriptions to help them quickly find the most relevant content when they need it most. New in Spring '08, relevant content is now even easier to find with the following new Spring '08 features: Featured Content, Managed Tagging Rules , and Customizable Search Results.
Inspire Discussions Around Community Ideas
The Spring '08 release provides new ways for organizations to inspire innovation and engage their communities. The new Salesforce Ideas application helps companies build their own community Web sites to collaborate directly with partners, employees, or others in an interactive, online forum. Users can post, discuss, and vote for the ideas they like most, ensuring that the best ideas rise to the top. New in Spring '08, it is now even easier to engage with ideas from your community with the following new Spring ’08 features: My Ideas Inbox, Recently Discussed Ideas, and Top Ideas.
World's First Development as a Service
What if developers could focus on creating applications that precisely solve their companies' business problems, rather than the software and infrastructure to run them? Welcome to the new world of platform as a service (PaaS). By replacing the complexity of software platforms with a complete, scalable service, Force.com provides developers the fastest path to turn ideas into business impact. Spring '08 debuts a new component of the Force.com PaaS: Development as a service, the world's first set of on-demand tools and services for application developers.
