Delivered Innovation founder Michael Topalovich will be presenting with SilverTree Systems CEO Jonathan Sapir at the Day of Cloud event, to be held October 16 at the Illinois Technology Association in Chicago.  Michael and Jonathan will be discussing the Force.com cloud computing platform from salesforce.com and its impact on application development and delivery processes.

Additional speakers will discuss cloud computing technologies such as: Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services.

For more information, visit http://www.dayofcloud.com

Delivered Innovation will be an exhibitor at the Chicago TechExpo, to be held October 1 from 9:30 to 4:00 at the UIC Forum in Chicago.  Come see live demonstrations of applications that we have designed for partners, such as Marketing Budget Management and Marketing Demand Planning by Marketing Lucidity.

About Chicago TechExpo

The Chicago TechExpo introduces and connects small business owners to technology solutions to grow and evolve their businesses. The one–day conference and exposition provides relevant, training and education, to allow business owners to learn how technology can improve operations, minimize time spent on administrative tasks, market their business and increase sales by using a very powerful tool: technology.

For more information, visit http://www.chicagotechexpo.net

Salesforce.com recently introduced AppExchange Service Listings for partners.  Check out the Delivered Innovation listing:

http://sites.force.com/appexchange/listingDetail?listingId=a0N30000001gnjSEAQ

Marketing Budget Management, the second app that Delivered Innovation has designed and developed for our friends at Marketing Lucidity, has passed security review and is now available for download on the salesforce.com AppExchange as a Force.com native application.

Marketing Lucidity’s Marketing Budget Management application for Salesforce CRM integrates seamlessly into the Salesforce Marketing suite, enabling marketing users to establish enterprise-class marketing budgets, expense tracking, and partner marketing funds.

Check out Marketing Budget Management today on the AppExchange:

http://sites.force.com/appexchange/listingDetail?listingId=a0N30000001e80SEAQ

It’s hard to believe, but it’s been a year since the world lost one of the great business minds of the past century. Although I missed my chance to meet Michael Hammer because I couldn’t muster up the nerve to just walk over and introduce myself while we were on a break at one of his seminars in Cambridge, the man nonetheless changed my life and my way of thinking about the importance and power of process. There isn’t a day that goes by in my professional life where I don’t apply his philosophies, and I can’t help but wonder how he would have wrapped his head around cloud computing and applied it to his process management principles.  I’m going to dust off The Agenda and read a few chapters in his memory.  Thank you, Dr. Hammer.