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After you add online payments exec Bill ready as artist in residence, Accel Partners and Foundation to the other areas of knowledge with the addition of former Salesforce.com Executive Chuck Puranic as firms registered entrepreneur in residence. In Puranic Accel, which was the creator of Salesforce to "Facebook for the enterprise" chatter, will focus on developing the company in the space of social enterprises.
Prior to joining Accel, Puranic, served as Senior Vice President of products at Salesforce.com chatter and mobile leading the company's product development efforts in the social enterprise network. Salesforce chatter was not only the first real foray into the social, but the platform has been lauded as the company's most successful product release ever.
During this time, the Puranic led acquiring two companies: Dimdim, real-time collaboration platform and GroupSwim, community platform with semantic filtering technology. He also led the integration of acquired technology and teams from two files, Exchange and cooperation of enterprises, Koral and SlideAware.
Puranic ran Salesforce Automation product sales, sales cloud, which makes one of the largest of the company's income. Prior to his 5 year stint at Salesforce Puranic during 6 years in Siebel systems where he served as founding product manager their first Internet-based Siebel eChannel. He ran the company's ecommerce and order management.
As an entrepreneur-in-residence at Accel Partners Puranic will evaluate and develop new business opportunities created by the intersection of social and mobile technologies in the enterprise.
Puranic obviously has considerable experience in the enterprise software industry and has special attention in the social sphere in recent times. Although Puranic did not reveal any specifics that it would be the establishment in Accel, he shares his views that he believed that social enterprise applications, such as the chatter is only the beginning of a long-term trend.
"Just as we went from a local software to cloud computing, there will be a similar step for social enterprises," explains Puranic. Of course there are a number of more mature and dominant companies that appeared in the space of social enterprises such as Jive and complain, and many social enterprise companies are getting bought. It can be argued that there can be no more room for new players.
But Puranic said that there are certain areas which change and are ripe for innovation, including how to translate conversations conducted in conditions of work performance and switching distribution model in SaaS.
As a social enterprise within Accel long-term strategy? Partner Kevin Efrusy, who attended Stanford business school with the Puranic, explains that one of the cornerstones for venture firms investing strategies of empowerment, based on the social web. Accel bets on social game by Playfish, social commerce with Groupon and more recently, social recruiting with BranchOut.
Now, he explains, is the time for movement in the space of social and mobile enterprise and Accel decided to develop their own ideas. He adds that the Puranic stories and ' technical ' depth made it an ideal person to execute that vision.
And EIR incubation model of success within Accel in the past. Cloudera, start distributing commercially and Apache Hadoop also incubated at Accel. And Couchbase, company data, database NoSQL option has also been developed in-house.
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