Comments on: 100 Free Force.com licenses on your normal Salesforce account

By: Guy W

Guy W — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:03:23 +0000

‘@Guy The free licenses are only good for users — they won’t give you Admin access.’

Thanks E….

By: The Enforcer

The Enforcer — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:58:28 +0000

@Guy The free licenses are only good for users — they won’t give you Admin access.

By: Guy W

Guy W — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:44:10 +0000

Question for you.

The 100 ‘Free Licenses’ are they still available?

When I purchase licenses – should I count all users or just the developers?
Thanks!
Guy

By: The Enforcer

The Enforcer — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:45:51 +0000

@Cindy

If you add the (paid for, not free) Force.com licenses to your existing Salesforce instance, then they can access your Contacts and Accounts. You still only have the one Salesforce system, you’ve just added licenses.

If you obtain the “100 Free Force.com” version on its own, then you have none of your standard data.

By: Cindy Freeman

Cindy Freeman — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:14:50 +0000

If you purchase the Force.com licenses to access accounts and contacts, are these the same accounts and contacts in your existing Salesforce instance? Or do you need to use SalesForce to SalesForce to share the same data?

By: The Enforcer

The Enforcer — Sun, 23 May 2010 22:01:27 +0000

@lyw: The free accounts, if requested in this manner, are added to your existing Salesforce instance. However, these Free accounts cannot access standard CRM objects (such as Accounts and Contacts). You can purchase Force.com licenses that are able to access these objects, but they’re not free.

You could try and get tricky, I guess, by having a Free account call a private API that runs under a ‘paid’ account, which would give access to standard objects. However, that’s a bit of a mess.

By: lyw

lyw — Sun, 23 May 2010 16:10:36 +0000

When you sign up this free 100 users with existing CRM accounts (PE), are they using the same contact and account DB? Or Force.com will have it’s own contact and account DB separated from existing SF CRM?
If they share the same DB, will I be able to update my SF CRM (PE) accounts and contacts from Force.com API?

Thank you for your help in advance!

By: The Enforcer

The Enforcer — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:58:45 +0000

Yes, you can add the 100 Free Users to your existing SFDC org and they can operate side-by-side with your ‘normal’ licenses and data. You have to ensure that those users can only access 10 custom objects (and a few other limitations). They cannot access standard objects like Contact nor Account.

Reminds me of an interesting situation at a company that does all their HR in Salesforce, too. They created a separate org just for the HR staff and the main org access it via Salesforce-to-Salesforce. That way, even Admins can’t get access to private information. So, sometimes it makes sense to have a separate org, but normally its most useful to have everything in one org (much easier to administer).

By: Mike_E

Mike_E — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:38:35 +0000

Is it feasible (contractually, not technically) to add these 100 Free Users into an existing SFDC org and have these users ONLY access a custom application that meets the 10 object constraint or must the custom application reside in its own, unique org?

By: The Enforcer

The Enforcer — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:42:21 +0000

It adds 1GB of “File Storage” available for anyone to use.