Description
Overview
Clive Howard recently recorded a podcast with Darren Smith from Salesforce.com on the topic of cloud platform development. Salesforce is one of the original cloud companies and the quintessential Software as a Service offering. They have offered developers a way to build on this platform through Force.com for many years. Through Darren’s work with this community he has seen for some time the challenges and benefits that developers have had when building on a cloud platform. With the recent launch of Salesforce1 and the acquisition of Heroku they are now taking this platform to mobile developers and beyond to the Internet of Things.
Trends Discussed
- Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Mobile
- Connected Devices
Participants
Darren Smith Director of platform sales engineering. Darren is a senior IT professional with a wide degree of technical knowledge and expertise. Experienced in complex enterprise sales cycles, communicating at different organisational levels with a successful track record of converting prospects into satisfied customers in the UK, across Europe and in North America
Clive Howard Principal Analyst at CIC. Clive was previously a technology consultant and Entrepreneur with over 15 years’ experience in the web industry. He started his career as a developer in digital agencies before founding his own consultancy in 2002. The last two years have been spent delivering strategic “User Experience” improvement programmes that have enhanced business effectiveness and customer engagement
