Dreamforce 2010

The Dreamforce 2010 by all accounts was a smashing success.  With exciting announcements like Database.com, Salesforce.com continues to establish its leadership in the cloud apps space.  The value-added stack continues to grow, enabling small, mid-sized and large scale companies benefit strongly from the cloud. The role of IT within mid to large organizations is shifting.  The disruptive benefit for small companies is the ability to have leading edge infrastructure without the time and expense.  Another big trend at Dreamforce was mobile.  The mashing up of back end technologies and front end consumption computers and devices is exciting for any customer, particularly those with employees on the move.

MondayCall Solutions had a great time meeting the community.  The theme was collaboration and there was plenty of collaboration with Salesforce.com employees, technology partners, fellow implementation partners and of course, customers.  The place was wall to wall with suits, casual developer garb and expo booth company uniforms.

Some of our friends that had a presence (booths and/or speaking ops) at the conference included:  Boomi, Luminosity Group, Silverpop, CRMFusion and more.  It was a big cloudfest that resulted in excitement, opportunity and best of all, results.

It's going to be hard to top Bill Clinton, Stevie Wonder but looking forward to Dreamforce 2011.

Project Methodology

At MondayCall Solutions, our methodology is meant to deliver value, predictability and transparency to our consulting projects.  Our methodology is highly flexible, matched to the needs of every individual customer.  We leverage our best practices experience but customize, customize, customize to maximize the benefit to the customer.

While every project is unique we have a basic structure to our engagements.  Many of the heading names are familiar as classic project management steps but we describe the variations that we focus on.

Needs assessment	Good planning means good execution.  We understand your business drivers and work with you to prioritize the right requirements to meet your business goals.  What's going to move your business KPI's?  We leverage our best practices experience to properly scope the project so that you have a clear roadmap on what should and can be done.
Discovery	We assess your current environment and create an execution project plan.  This reduces risk and leads to good scalable design.
Design	We architect the best-in-class solution that will meet your business goals while being scalable and easy to maintain
Development	Our experienced consulting team creates a solution based on the specification.  We use iterative development so that you can see progress early.
Testing	We thoroughly test each solution and document its usage and maintenance procedures.  Consultant and most importantly, user acceptance testing is key
Rollout	It doesn't stop when the code is finished. We provide a full range of training, mentoring and support assistance to help roll the solution out to a large user base
Ongoing Support and Administration	We provide flexible support services so that you always have access to an expert to help you not only rollout but sustain the value ongoing.

All throughout the project, we build multiple milestones throughout the project so you can see progress early and all of our engagements have management oversight to ensure a high quality deliverable.  Our goal is not technology delivery, but solution delivery.