Podcast: Dreamforce 2022 Report by Vern

Podcast Description

Dreamforce 2022 Recap

Top Line – Definitely very successful

• Trailblazers
• Vendor Ecosystem
• Overall energy and push

Genie

• Opening keynote – as theatrical as ever. Brett Taylor took center stage to unveil Genie.
• A re-packaging of Salesforce Marketing CDP, nee Datorama. 
  • Adapters to each cloud
• Analysis
  • Salesforce is being talked about as not being a growth company because they can’t compete in the “intelligent data layer.”
  • This move is strong because Salesforce is now the #1 enterprise application delivery platform, having recently eclipsed SAP in quarterly revenues. It has a chance of sparking interest and orders from an ever-increasing number of customers.
  • Tayor on CNBC on investor day: “Salesforce is a growth company.”
  • However, Genie just makes Salesforce a slightly better competitor when compared to Snowflake, Databricks, or Fivetran. Since acquisitions are apparently not off the table, according to Taylor, I expect Salesforce to make some more moves 

Best Sessions

• Pablo Gonzoles & Rob Cowell sessions were being talked about
• How Google does Salesforce Devops is very interesting, very opinionated. Important session because it talked about some open-source innovations in environment variables and feature flags.
• Sparsely attended session on how Salesforce does devops. Very fascinating under-the-covers look at service discovery, monitoring, and remediation. Showed off merlion, an open-source Python ML and anomaly-detection system called Merlion.

Ancillary Services Market for Salesforce is strong

• Salesforce did not announce any competing products
• Vendor villages were busy
• System Integrations are dominant 

Salesforce Devops Strong

• Companies Exhibiting (14)
  • ACCELQ
  • Cloud Compliance
  • CodeScan/AutoRABIT
  • Copado
  • Elements Cloud
  • Flosum
  • Gearset
  • Metazoa
  • Odaseva
  • Opsera
  • OwnBackup
  • Prodly
    • DevOps Center Integration
  • Provar
  • Salto
  • With Secure
    • Platform Cybersecurity
• DevOps Center not making much of a dent
  • Still in Beta; no info on usage or satisfaction yet
  • Prodly and Elements Cloud integrations

Journalistic Topics

• Press Conference
• The Press Room
  • Foreign Press
• Trailblazers Love Salesforce
  • It seems real
  • People get a chance to become successful
  • There is a support network available
• High Tech Bubble
  • Reddit thread
• Customer attendee satisfaction
  • Reminder about local trailblazer events

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