Rachel talked to Matt Childs from DreamSimplicity about Bime and Business Intelligence at Dreamforce 2011!

Thanks for meeting with us Matt! 

While I was writing this post, I had the B52s (screaming) in the background. The DJ was playing one of their songs, they weren’t actually here in real life… although this wouldn’t have been unrealistic, seeing as during the opening Keynote of M.Benioff there were, amongst others, Neil Young and MC Hammer, who actually testified as being Salesforce users (Salesforce helped them during their tours, for example).

When Prince uses Bime to analyze the opportunity cost in banning the publishing of videos on Youtube… that will be the day 

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One word: impressive.

I have touched down in San Francisco for the Dreamforce ’11 event.

Here are some numbers, in no particular order:

At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com, and Steve Fisher, senior vice president of the platform division at Salesforce, demonstrate a recruiting program made possible by making Force.com's platform compatible with Facebook. When it comes to things like job recommendations, social networks are powerful venues that customers can now tap, they say.

Salesforce actually launched something similar 3 years back - a Facebook application for connecting data from the two services. Appropriately named Faceforce, the application allows you to see things like your contact record (which is kept in your Salesforce.com account) side-by-side with a user’s Facebook profile, assuming they are list as a friend.

What could this mean for Bime? Possibly an indirect connection to Facebook data, via Salesforce.com. Salesforce uses the Facebook API to collect data from the social networking site. Assuming it can be stored and accessed in Salesforce.com just as the rest of your CRM data, you may well be analyzing your Facebook data with Bime very soon!

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