Kusiri / Salesforce K-Framework 3: visualising a social graph

This was the final video of the day and I think it shows! Or rather, I think it sounds - can you hear it in my voice? :-)

Anyway, in this video I show how it really is possible to do anything with your Salesforce data using Adobe Flex and the K-Framework. At the bottom of every contact record in our prototype Flex application there is an interactive network diagram that shows who that contact knows. The network diagram can be modified to change the number of known-people that are displayed and the visible number of social-degrees-of-separation can be controlled. The social network can also be navigated with the diagram and the social path from the contact that you know to the contact that you would like to know can be traced.

We are not doing it here but this could be displayed inline, in a standard Salesforce record page.

There is one mistake that I made that is worth correcting here: I said that a social network is implicit in every instance of a Salesforce customer database, what I should have said is that a social network is latent in every instance of a Salesforce customer database. You have to be capturing the relationship data (in a custom object perhaps) in Salesforce before you can visualise it.

http://blog.kusiri.com/2008/05/k-framework-3-visualising-social-graph.html

See all 3 K-Framework videos: http://www.kusiri.com/video

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Science & Technology

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• Salesforce
• Visualforce
• Adobe
• Flex
• Kusiri