Alan Draper
I read an article from Techcrunch in which Salesforce’s new baby, Do.com, is building out it’s capabilities with new features and open APIs.
Do.com is a task management service built on the Manymoon technology that Salesforce.com acquired last year. Manymoon coined the term “social productivity,” for the platform environment.
At it’s most basic level it’s simply a task management platform. But…..it could also be a first attempt at handling unstructured work and building out a ‘social’ case management tool. While I dislike tagging on ‘social’ to anything related to BPM in a social enterprise context you can begin to understand that knowledge workers who perform loosely coupled tasks which don’t follow rigid workflow patterns could turn to this tool to handle such work, and given the ‘social productivity’ angle and leveraging Salesforce’s own social enterprise platform tools it could extend their capabilities in the Cloud from simply CRM to encroach Case Management territory.
A couple of years ago they bought out a small BPM player called Informavores and built out their visual process manager for Force.com. It’s not a giant leap of imagination to make a connection (assuming that Benioff does himself, he doesn’t like BPM much given it’s hazy history as a workflow integration layer) and see where this could lead.
And if that’s the case (no pun intended) could Salesforce beat the BPMS vendors to having a real social enterprise enabled case tool before BPM does?
This article was written for Business 2 Community by Alan Draper.
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It seems that only recently everyone was talking about the launch of Do.com and reviewing the app, and now everyone is discussing the coming shutdown of the app :( It’s been quite popular, so the news was really surprising. I guess a lot of people are looking for a new home for their work, so I thought I’d drop a note here – Wrike would be happy to welcome Do.com users on board, the importer tool is up and running (details on the data migration here – http://www.wrike.com/blog/11/15/2013/Popular-App-Do-com-Shuts-Down-Soon-How-Safely-Migrate-Tasks-Wrike)