Join us to learn about all of the technologies that ISVs can leverage to help manage and grow your business. Discover the latest platform innovations most relevant to ISVs and meet our Product Managers. Get a preview of the product roadmap for ISV partners. This session is primarily for business development, product managers, and developers
1. ISV PM Product Roadmap
Meet the PMs
John Richter, ISV Enablement
Dileep Burki, ISV Platform
Chuck Mortimore, Identity
Ryan Ellis, AppExchange & Communities
John Gibbon, ISV Platform
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3. Agenda
• Recent and upcoming roadmap highlights
• Push & Environment Hub
• Identity
• AppExchange relaunch
• Feedback for the future
5. ISV Calendar
Know What s Coming and Why It Matters
Upcoming Partner
Calendar of Events
Sept. 12 – Winter 13 Developer Preview
Sept. 18-21 – Dreamforce 2012
Oct. 2 – ISV Getting Started Webinar
Oct. 15 – APP Academy: Munich
Oct. 16 – ISV Getting Started Webinar
Oct. 18 – APP Academy: New York
Oct. 30 –APP Academy: Getting Started (SF)
Oct. 31 – APP Academy: Sales & Marketing (SF)
Nov. 1 – ISV PM Product Roadmap: Winter 13
Dec. 6 – ISV PM Product Roadmap: Identity
http://p.force.com/news
6. PM Product Roadmap Webinar Series
Hear directly from our Product Managers on new enhancements
Roadmap Sessions This Year:
Feb. 22 – PM Product Roadmap: Spring ’12 (formerly Release & Roadmap)
June 19 – PM Product Roadmap: Summer ’12 (formerly Release & Roadmap)
July 31 – PM Product Roadmap: Strategy & Visual Workflow
Sept. 18 – PM Product Roadmap: Meet the PM’s (Dreamforce)
Nov. 1 – PM Product Roadmap: Winter ’13
Dec. 6 – PM Product Roadmap: Identity and Security
Have an idea to better
our technologies?
Future Topics: ISVforce, App Dev, Apex, Use Ideas on the
Visualforce, Developer Tools, Force.com Partner Portal!
http://p.force.com/roadmap
7. Winter 13 Release for Partners
More Resources Coming Soon
• Sandbox Preview Instructions (now closed to new Sandbox requests)
• Release Schedule & Maintenance Window
• ISV PM Product Roadmap: Winter ’13 (Register)
• Top Features for ISVs
• Release Notes (Wed., Aug. 22)
• Developer Preview Webinar (Replay)
• Demos
• Customer Resources
http://p.force.com/releases
8. Need Help at Dreamforce?
Service Cloud Live Call Center
• Chatter: use #help in the Dreamforce App
• Call 1-855-DF12-HELP
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• Dreamforce.com/help
• Email: help@dreamforce.com
• Information Desk in the Partner Hub
9. DF12 ISV Success Sessions
Great sessions for each phase of the lifecycle
Plan Build Distribute Sell Support
ISV Kickoff: Getting Started Distributing & Licensing Your App How to Support Your Customers
How to Architect & Design Your App Automate Your App Sales ISV PM Product Roadmap
Designing Social Apps (Workshop)
Extend Your Commercial Force.com App Expanding Your Marketing Reach with AppExchange
Team Development and Release Mgmt Marketing Best Practices in the Social Era
Building Secure Applications in the Cloud Mastering the Direct Sales Model
Selling Social Apps
Follow sessions and join the Partner Success Group on
12. Push Upgrades
• Seamlessly upgrade your customers to the latest
version of your application
• With Post Upgrade Apex Script, automate post
upgrade steps to enable a pain-free auto-upgrade
for your customers
• Generally available in Winter ’13
…more than $1M over the next several releases by automating many of the manual upgrade steps – BMC
It has made deployment substantially easier – Charles Schwab
13. Environment Hub
• Unified view of all of your Salesforce orgs
• Trialforce Management and Source orgs
• License Management / Biz org
• Dev, QA, Staging, Release, Patch Orgs
• Pilot in Winter’13
• Generally Available in Summer’13
23. Available now
• All new design for easy access
• Optimized for mobile for a great experience
at work, home or on-the-go
• New organization by category, industry
and collection for easier discovery of apps
• All managed packages don’t count against
org system limits
24. Demo video views
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3000
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29. Feedback to the PMs for future roadmaps
• Package everything…?
• Multiple license types per application …?
• Write once, run in any edition…?
• App-based resource limits…?
• Usage metrics…?
• Other topics…?
• …What would change your board report?
31. A Few Reminders. . .
Why Work With a PDO Partner Success Experts
Innovation Theater and Lounge
1:1 Success Clinics
Innovation Theater and Lounge
Need to relax? Have a massage!
Check out the Partner Hub
540 Howard Street
Survey (Session Record) Cloud Crawl (Thursday Night)
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32. Partner Hub – Speaker Debrief
Why Work With a PDO
Partner
Success
Clinics
Welcome Desk
Speaker
Debrief
Area