{"id":564170,"date":"2008-11-03T20:35:07","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T20:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/questionpro.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/03\/ideascale_questionpro_cloud_co\/"},"modified":"2008-11-03T20:35:07","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T20:35:07","slug":"ideascale_questionpro_cloud_co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/ideascale_questionpro_cloud_co\/","title":{"rendered":"IdeaScale – QuestionPro : Cloud Connectors"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"https:\/\/admin.questionpro.com\/images\/cloudconnector.gif\"Cloud Computing
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\nThere has been a lot of chatter around “Cloud computing” recently. Microsoft recently jumped into the bandwagon with their launch of Azure Platform<\/a> and of course Amazon has been doing utility computing via Amazon S3 for almost 2 years now. Google has it’s AppEngine<\/a> platform and our favorite Salesforce has force.com – Lots of hype and buzz.<\/p>\n

OK – What does that mean to your surveys and services<\/a> that we offer. We’ve always believed in the SaaS model from day 1 – ok – we tried experimenting with deploying QuestionPro on as a server solution, early on when we launched QP, on customer premises – we failed miserably and it cost everyone an arm and a leg. Lessons in entrepreneurship – Fail often and fail fast!<\/p>\n

What Next?<\/b><\/p>\n

We think the next chapter will be about cloud connectors! Data in the cloud is almost a given now. The question now becomes how will the system in the cloud talk to each other, or how effeciently can services and data interoperate with each other.<\/p>\n

Salesforce.com<\/b>We had taken the first step in this direction – a small but significant one – The QuestionPro -> Salesforce.com integration is an example of a cloud connector. Your CRM Data is in Salesforce.com and Survey Data in QuestionPro.com — Joining the two together makes sense. What is more important, that we changed recently is that we allowed all QuestionPro licenses (even the Web Professional $15\/Month) license to have the Salesforce integration enabled — Scott’s post on Dreamforce and new Salesforce.com\u00a0 pricing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

QuestionPro.com and IdeaScale.com
\n<\/b>This is an easy one – Since we own both the services! We’ve now lauched the integration of IdeaScale with QuestionPro – You can deploy surveys to your IdeaScale community directly. See screenshot below:<\/p>\n

Upcoming Cloud Connectors:
\n<\/b>This is really up to you. If you’d like us to integrate with other web systems, please feel free to post ideas on our QuestionPro ideascale portal (https:\/\/questionpro.ideascale.com<\/a>) — we’re converging all feature and system requests there and will pick from there and move forward.<\/p>\n

For now we have the following in mind:<\/p>\n