Two Harvard University Alum Win Salesforce $1M Hackathon Prize At Dreamforce For Mobile Service To Create Reports Two developers who met at Harvard University 15 years ago, are the winners of the Salesforce $1 million hackathon for its service to create mobile reports for sales people using the Salesforce platform. The app, called Upshot, was developed by Thom Kim and Joseph Turian, who developed a service to create and edit reports with the ability to use voice for making queries. The data is parsed in plain english, connected via API with results then presented for the user. The other winners were: Healthcare.lov came in second and won $50,000 for its service for people The $25,0000 third prize went to Hirebase, a service that allows to highlight resumes with different colors and annotations The fourth place $10,000 prize went to Salesfetch, a service for finding information across different services to get a full picture of the lead. And the $5,000 fifth prize was awarded to2lementary for its service that detects the identity and background of people as they approach a trade booth The service used Raspberry Pi and a low power bluetooth device to detect the Kim and Turian did a demo that showed an app that allows for reports to be created with drill downs on specific information points. Queries can be done on the fly by inputting into the mobile device or by Google Voice. The hackathon began Monday with the start of the Dreamforce event. Dozens of teams participated. The teams were judged on their innovation, the customer experience, its business value and use of the Salesforce platform. As a disclaimer, I was one of the hackathon judges. ift.tt/1g04MVd ift.tt/1fosGw0 Source: TechCrunch
Posted on: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 00:23:30 +0000
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