October 12, 2009 – “CanterburyCloud”, an emerging idea for a network amongst SaaS/Cloud Computing businesses in Christchurch, today announces the first Cloud Camp Christchurchunconference (agenda free event where attendees can exchange ideas, knowledge and information in a creative and supportive environment) to discuss what such a network could achieve for its participants, the region and the world.

In Christchurch and Canterbury we have a surprising number of players in this field – all doing interesting things with internet technologies but, at least to a certain extent, isolated from the good advice, talent, resources and plain support of their peers.

We believe we can change this, thus the idea of developing CanterburyCloud. So what is CanterburyCloud? It is a network where start-ups can access and leverage the communal wisdom of their peers. It is potentially a co-working space where growing companies can work and bounce ideas off like-minded businesses. It is potentially a marketing platform – a network of businesses that can, to an extent, share key messages about our value proposition, resources and evangelise each other’s services within New Zealand and internationally. It will become what we want it to be but ultimately, it has to be unique – shine for its excellence from a healthy dose of agility, smart business and web savvy people.

We would like to explore this opportunity with you and we are therefore inviting you to join an unconference – but beware! It is not going to be a tech event, rather it is going to look at developing this idea of CanterburyCloud further- vision, goals, forming, participants, sponsorship, venues, business models, strengths and weaknesses and the general appetite for working together.

We will be holding this event at 1pm-5pm on Friday 30 October at CDC, 193 Cashel Street, Training Room T1, Level 2, followed by free drinks and nibbles at Memia, 107-109 Cashel Street, Level 1.

We would like to thank CDC and Telecom for their generous contribution in supporting us with organizing this event.

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So yesterday I successfully completed the Salesforce.com Certified Consultant and Salesforce.com Certified Force.com Developer exams. These add to the existing Administrator certification.

With these 3 certifications customers can rest assured that they are entrusting their Salesforce.com needs with a capable company.

The application provides basic social networking functionality within your Salesforce.com org. This functionality is strictly internal and intentionally does not link up with any external social networking service.

With Trineo Newsfeed users in your org can update their status of what they are working on, comment on other users status’ and create a basic profile so their coworkers can learn a bit more about them. The application also adds events like a new lead being created to the Newsfeed.

Trineo Newsfeed is available on the Appexchange here and is free for a limited time.

CHRISTCHURCH FIRM IMPRESSES SILICON VALLEY

Christchurch man Daniel Fowlie has been successful in his effort to impress a panel of investment and IT gurus in San Francisco.

Daniel, founder and managing director of Trineo, has been selected as a finalist for the Force 40 Innovation Showcase competition, run by US-based software company Salesforce.com.

Two weeks ago Daniel flew to San Francisco for the semi-final round and had just seven minutes to make an impression with his presentation on LegalSoftOnline.com – a new legal practice management system developed by Trineo – to a panel of Salesforce.com staff and leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms.

“It was be a fantastic opportunity to highlight the standard of innovation in New Zealand, as well as gain exposure to some very savvy and well connected IT investors,” says Daniel.

The next stage of the competition is an internet vote starting in early November with the winner announced at the Dreamforce 09 Conference.

LegalSoftOnline.com has taken only four months to develop using modules from the Salesforce.com development platform.

“I identified, as a result of discussions with people working in legal practices, a real need for a powerful, flexible and secure legal practice management system in New Zealand and other countries. The use of Salesforce.com modules has cut years off the development time and allows for cost-effective customisation to meet a client’s needs.”

“The future of software and client systems is via the web, rather than off-the-shelf packages that must be installed and configured on company servers.”

“A typical server-based legal practice management system can cost tens of thousands of dollars, with additional IT, deployment and upgrade costs.”

“An online system such as Trineo’s, however, does everything a server-based system does, but is more flexible, equally secure, and has no large upfront cost.”

“Trineo’s LegalSoftOnline.com system charges a modest monthly fee per user, which takes into account software updates and maintenance, data storage and backup, and security issues.”

LegalSoftOnline.com will start beta testing soon and is looking for any small to medium sized law firms interested in being involved. The final product will be released before the end of the year.

About Trineo

Trineo provides specialist services for businesses wanting to configure and customise the Salesforce.com customer relationship management software.

The company was founded in 2008 and is based at the Canterbury Innovation Incubator.

For more information

Daniel Fowlie

Phone: 021 290-0597

Christchurch man Daniel Fowlie has been invited to San Francisco next week to pitch his latest business idea to a panel of investment and IT gurus, including Sequoia Capital, an early investor in Google.

Daniel, founder and managing director of Trineo, has been selected as a semi-finalist for the Force 40 Innovation Showcase competition, run by US-based software company Salesforce.com.

He will have just seven minutes to make an impression with his presentation on LegalSoftOnline.com – a new legal practice management system developed by Trineo – to a panel of Salesforce.com staff and leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms.

If selected, Daniel will go on to make a presentation at the finals of the competition, scheduled for late November at the Dreamforce Conference in San Francisco.

“It will be a fantastic opportunity to highlight the standard of innovation in New Zealand, as well as gain exposure to some very savvy and well connected IT investors,” says Daniel.

LegalSoftOnline.com has taken only four months to develop using modules from the Salesforce.com development platform.

“I identified, as a result of discussions with people working in legal practices, a real need for a powerful, flexible and secure legal practice management system in New Zealand and other countries. The use of Salesforce.com modules has cut years off the development time and allows for cost-effective customisation to meet a client’s needs.”

“The future of software and client systems is via the web, rather than off-the-shelf packages that must be installed and configured on company servers.

“A typical server-based legal practice management system can cost tens of thousands of dollars, with additional IT, deployment and upgrade costs.

“An online system such as Trineo’s, however, does everything a server-based system does, but is far more flexible, equally secure, and has no large upfront cost.

“Trineo’s LegalSoftOnline.com system charges a modest monthly fee per user, which takes into account software updates and maintenance, data storage and backup, and security issues.”

About Trineo

Trineo provides specialist services for businesses wanting to configure and customise the Salesforce.com customer relationship database software.

The company was founded in 2008 and is based at the Canterbury Innovation Incubator.

For more information

Daniel Fowlie

Phone: 021 290-0597

The last few Dreamforce keynotes have delivered exciting new functionality – what will this year bring? And what band will play at Dreamforce this year? We’ll find out in November.

Dreamforce Registration

When I discovered and tweeted this news I described it as game changing. Suddenly small and medium businesses (by NZ size at least) have the most perfect platform to create a business application to help streamline their processes.This announcement will get the platform a lot of attention and from Salesforce.com’s point of view get companies using the platform and realising they want to do more with it – which means upgrading to paid versions.

Natually Free Edition has some limitations:

• 100 Users (not much of a limitation for NZ companies)
• 1 Custom App per user
• 10 Custom Objects per user
• 1 GB of storage

And it includes Force.com Sites functionality for creating public websites.

As a result of this increased exposure and ultimately use I expect the demand for Force.com skills to increase. Anyone who wants to use Force.com in their business but is looking for a development partner need look no further – Trineo Ltd is here to help.

Sites makes publishing data driven websites as easy as content driven websites. The huge advantage being that the backend to look after that data already exists, so a company can simply login to Force.com update a record and see that data reflected on the public website immediately.

All you need to get started with Sites is here.