Force.com: Platform Overview & Enterprise Solution Trend
Session Overview
Join us as we learn from Salesforce.com and Redkite, a leading Saleforce.com implementation partner, about the power of the Force.com platform and the latest trends in solution development for Salesforce.coms enterprise clients.
Tom DiVittorio, Platform Evangelist from Salesforce.com will review the features and development capabilities of Force.com. The discussion will include a real-time demonstration of building an application on the platform.
Redkites founders will discuss their experiences delivering Salesforce.com solutions to enterprise clients since 2004 and their outlook on how the market is evolving with the product. They will also provide a demo of some of their products that have been developed on the platform to meet the needs of their clients.
Company and Presenter Bios
Salesforce.com: Salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing company. Based on salesforce.coms real-time, multitenant architecture, the companys platform and CRM applications have revolutionized the way companies collaborate and communicate with their customers. Salesforce.com offers the fastest path to customer success with cloud computing.
Tom DiVittorio, Director, Force.com Practice, Salesforce Professional Services
Tom is the Chief Technical Architect within Salesforces Professional Services team. Tom leads a global practice focused on selling and delivering force.com projects. His team provides customers with a playbook for how to target applications for force.com, delivery best practices, and how to structure their organizations for force.com. Tom has been in Salesforce Professional Services for 4 years and sits on Salesforce's platform steering committee which helps set the direction for the platform product roadmap and marketing.
Prior to joining Salesforce, Tom spent 6 years at Accenture as a technical manager in the Financial Services practice. He also spent 6 years at Merrill Lynch as a developer and IT Manager.
Redkite: Redkite was founded in 2009 by delivery professionals who have pioneered the delivery of Cloud technology to enterprise clients since 2004. Our professionals have led many of the largest and most advanced implementations of salesforce.com in the world, deploying Salesforce to more than 40,000 users globally, on more than 40 implementations for Fortune 100 companies. Redkite is led by:
Brennan Burkhart, Co-Founder & Managing Principal
Brennan has been working in Financial Services for over 10 years, for the past 6 years focused on the design and delivery of Salesforce.com solutions. Prior to founding Redkite, Brennan was a co-founder of Fujitsu Consultings SaaS Practice (formerly OKERE) where he ran OKEREs Professional Services. Brennan has led more than 30 Salesforce implementations with clients including: Citi, ThomsonReuters, Barclays, TD Ameritrade, Merrill Lynch, MetLife, and Morgan Stanley.
Kenny McColl, Co-Founder & Chief Architect
Kenny is responsible for all aspects of Redkites technology strategy. Kenny has over 16 years of experience in strategic IT planning, architecture, product development and program management within the financial services industry. Prior to founding Redkite, Kenny worked as an architect with several enterprise clients, including one of the worlds largest Salesforce.com implementations.
Gemini Systems
A special thanks to Gemini Systems, the proud premier sponsor the NYC Cloud Computing Group. Gemini Systems supplies the food, beverages and venue for our Meet Ups. Gemini Systems is an early adopter of Cloud Computing technologies and solutions. They are a premier Global IT firm with resources in several continents able to tackle the most challenging system design, integration, and application development projects.
Hope to see you at the meet up.
Regards,
John
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