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From what I gather, they're a: Expensive and hugely expansible webapp built on top of Oracle that allows admins to make and track customers through the sales p
by duckfang 5y ago
From what I gather, they're a:
Expensive and hugely expansible webapp built on top of Oracle that allows admins to make and track customers through the sales pipeline using various methods.
The software's intent is for marketing, sales, and execs to see how various campaigns are running and how to control them.
They're usually outside of standard devops pipeline by a good distance.
The downside: Salesforce seems to be at the whim of Oracle, who has their own competing product in the CRM category.
And I'm also studying it, and working towards the certs myself. May not be looooong term, but people with this knowledge do tend to get paid well. (Anything connected with marketing/sales does)
- ilikeerp 5y agoAt the whim of oracle? Built 'on top' of oracle? Using an Oracle DB doesn't make you a slave to Oracle Corp. It's also not expensive. Some of the businesses cases I've seen for SF have a massive ROI.
- gher-shyu3i 5y agoHaven't they moved off of Oracle? I recall seeing they had job openings for Postgres admins with the intention of moving off of Oracle.
- jeremyrbrown 5y agoits in progress. there surely are a lot of dependencies to work through. That said - I don't think Oracle would be legally allowed to or capable of damaging Salesforce by witholding licenses or whatever. And the fact that they are on Oracle currently has no effect on the developer, admin, or user facing APIs. like any cloud provider all of that is abstracted away.