| Wednesday, April 10, 2013 | |  | | Chris Murphy | | | Salesforce.com Takes Smartphone-First Approach "The percentage of usage is moving more and more toward the phone," said Salesforce.com co-founder Parker Harris at the Wells Fargo Tech Transformation Summit in San Francisco. "So we're doing a lot of work internally at Salesforce to try to figure out how can we transfer all the IP and user experience to a phone experience. It's very challenging."
Having talked with a number of companies that have deployed tablet apps to their sales teams, I've been taken with the tablet as a tool for sales, service, and other mobile, interactive tasks. Harris sees things a bit differently.
Tablets have a lot of great uses for people who need access to rich data remotely, Harris said, but as Salesforce watches the usage data, it's seeing more and more customers using smartphones to access its application services.
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