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How to Distribute and License Your App for Commercial Success Benjamin James, salesforce.com, Alliances Operations Lead Naren Raghavan, salesforce.com, ISV Technical Evangelist Shannon Schupbach, salesforce.com, ISV Technical Evangelist

How to Distribute and License Your App for Commercial Success - Dreamforce 2012 - 9/19

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You've built a killer Force.com app, but how do you get it into the hands of prospects and customers? Come to this session to learn how ISVforce technologies enable you to distribute and license your Force.com commercial apps with ease. Learn how to configure and provision free trials for prospects, publish your app to the AppExchange, manage licenses with the License Management App, and more! This session is primarily for product managers, architects, and developers

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How to Distribute and License Your App for

Commercial Success Benjamin James, salesforce.com, Alliances Operations Lead Naren Raghavan, salesforce.com, ISV Technical Evangelist Shannon Schupbach, salesforce.com, ISV Technical Evangelist

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Safe harbor Safe harbor statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995:

This presentation may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. If any such uncertainties materialize or if any of the assumptions proves incorrect, the results of salesforce.com, inc. could differ materially from the results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements we make. All statements other than statements of historical fact could be deemed forward-looking, including any projections of product or service availability, subscriber growth, earnings, revenues, or other financial items and any statements regarding strategies or plans of management for future operations, statements of belief, any statements concerning new, planned, or upgraded services or technology developments and customer contracts or use of our services.

The risks and uncertainties referred to above include – but are not limited to – risks associated with developing and delivering new functionality for our service, new products and services, our new business model, our past operating losses, possible fluctuations in our operating results and rate of growth, interruptions or delays in our Web hosting, breach of our security measures, the outcome of intellectual property and other litigation, risks associated with possible mergers and acquisitions, the immature market in which we operate, our relatively limited operating history, our ability to expand, retain, and motivate our employees and manage our growth, new releases of our service and successful customer deployment, our limited history reselling non-salesforce.com products, and utilization and selling to larger enterprise customers. Further information on potential factors that could affect the financial results of salesforce.com, inc. is included in our annual report on Form 10-Q for the most recent fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2012. This documents and others containing important disclosures are available on the SEC Filings section of the Investor Information section of our Web site.

Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other presentations, press releases or public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase our services should make the purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available. Salesforce.com, inc. assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.

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Who we are

Benjamin James Alliances Operations Lead ISV Technical Evangelist ISV Technical Evangelist

Naren Raghavan Shannon Schupbach

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Distribute and license like Salesforce

• AppExchange

• Free trials

• Branding

• License management

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The software distribution divide

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How does Force.com work? Metadata

Objects

Metadata for Custom Objects

Fields

Metadata for Custom Fields

Data

Storage for Custom Object records

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Package: your solution, your metadata •  Your data model (objects, fields, etc.) •  Your classes, triggers, and pages

Managed Packages • IP protection • License management • Trials • Branding • Upgrades • Support Tools

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Distribution with packages

Objects

Fields

Data

Customer

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Demo: Packaging & AppExchange

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Packaging & AppExchange best practices

• Complete your AppExchange listing • This is your brand!

• Understand what can be packaged and upgraded • Most components are automatically added

• Don’t forget to include those that aren’t! • Use package install scripts

• Completely automate the process

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Distribution options

Your Company Website

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Distribution with Trialforce

Template

Your Company Website

Customer

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Demo: Trialforce

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Trialforce best practices

• Create multiple trial experiences • One for each vertical, industry, etc.

• Load sample data into your trials • Brand your trial experience • Use trials for testing and demos

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The licensing divide

Product Key KBQR-6JF49-AO3P-GW92

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Demo: Licensing

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Licensing best practices

• Extend and customize the LMA to fit your business processes • Install the LMA into your ISV business org • Licenses cannot be moved to a different org

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Summary: distribute and license like Salesforce

• AppExchange • World’s leading enterprise app marketplace

• Free trials • From AppExchange or your own website

• Branding • Give trials and apps your own look & feel

• License Management • Add, upgrade, or disable users

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Where to Learn More

• ISVforce Guide - http://p.force.com/guide

• Partner Portal - http://p.force.com/appacademy

• Trialforce & LMA Cheat Sheets

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ISV Kickoff: Getting Started How to Architect & Design Your App Designing Social Apps (Workshop)

Extend Your Commercial Force.com App Team Development and Release Mgmt Building Secure Applications in the Cloud

Distributing & Licensing Your App Automate Your App Sales

Expanding Your Marketing Reach with AppExchange Marketing Best Practices in the Social Era Mastering the Direct Sales Model Selling Social Apps

How to Support Your Customers ISV PM Product Roadmap

DF12 ISV Success Sessions Great sessions for each phase of the lifecycle

Build Distribute Support Sell Plan

Follow sessions and join the Partner Success Group on

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Why Work With a PDO A Few Reminders. . .

Survey (Session Record)

Partner Success Experts Innovation Theater and Lounge 1:1 Success Clinics Innovation Theater and Lounge Need to relax? Have a massage!

Check out the Partner Hub

Cloud Crawl (Thursday Night) 540 Howard Street

@partnerforce Follow us on Twitter

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Why Work With a PDO Partner Hub – Speaker Debrief

Welcome Desk

Partner Success Clinics

Speaker Debrief

Area

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Shannon Schupbach Naren Raghavan ISV Technical Evangelist

Benjamin James Alliances Operations Lead ISV Technical Evangelist

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