Location Location Location - New App for Salesforce.com

  

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A few months ago I was trying to complete my expenses last minute before the deadline and I found myself copying postal codes out of Salesforce.com and pasting them into Google Maps in order to work out my mileage. This got me to think OMG there must be an easier way of doing this. After a chat with Nash, our Salesforce.com Developer, we started to design what would become OnPath's Location Manager for Salesforce.com

Location Manager is a mash up application that uses Google maps to work out the distance between two accounts in Salesforce.com and display a map and driving instructions. It's great and I now spend next to no time doing mileage for my expenses.

But that's only half the story. OnPath was one of the first partners to trial Salesforce.com's new Chatter application. It allows users in Salesforce.com to follow people and write status messages as you do with Twitter or Facebook. So this is where the second part of the application came into being. There have been a number of times when I get asked when are we going to customer X next or I didn't know when we are doing work for Customer X. So with this in mind we expanded the Location Manager to post the places you are visiting in your Salesforce Chatter.

We hope to get this onto the Appexchange within the next few weeks as one of the first Chatter enabled applications. Until then check out our demo on YouTube.