In January, we launched EditGrid at Salesforce.com’s AppExchange platform. Since then, all upgrades we have for EditGrid.com are also available to our Salesforce.com integration. But today, we have launched a major enhancement specifically for our users at Salesforce.com in response to the market and user feedbacks.

Market Feedback

Ismael Ghalimi at IT|Redux named integration with Salesforce.com the top missing feature in most online spreadsheet offering in his online spreadsheet roundup post. Ismael said: “A typical use case would be to dynamically embed data produced by Salesforce.com reports into a spreadsheet, merge it with data provided by third-party services, then produce charts from it.”

We also received similar feature requests from Salesforce.com users. The challenge, for many users, is to produce the same graph type for different sets of data, out of the same report. EditGrid’s capability to produce charts and analysis based on Salesforce.com’s reports is seen by many as a huge value proposition to Salesforce.com users.

The New Feature

We listen. Now we have this ready for you.

Instead of importing the Salesforce.com reports as a new spreadsheet file every time, we can now overwrite the old data in the existing report spreadsheet stored in EditGrid. The charts and everything additional the users did (i.e. analysis metrics, etc.) on other sheets of the same workbook will stay intact. Every time a user opens the report, he/she would get the latest report data plus all the metrics and charts updated with the latest data (provided that he has the formula right :P)

Here are some screenshots of the latest features.

The “EditGrid Reports” Tab

Report Data refreshed…

… Charts and analysis stay intact

About Salesforce.com’s Support

I would like to take this opportunity to share our experience with AppExchange. From the very beginning to launch, their team have worked closely with us throughout. I’m really impressed by that. They spent time to comment on the integration and find bugs we’ve overlooked. After we released the app, they included our app in the listing, blogged about it, and brought actual traffic to our app. When their CEO passed by our city, he took us out for lunch and arranged media opportunity for us. (Thanks Marc!). Have I mentioned everything is all free?

All of the above plus the opportunity of getting access to the close to 1 million Salesforce.com users, the majority of whom are early adopters of latest web technologies. Can there be better offerings on earth?

EditGrid’s AppExchange Exposure

You will be seeing EditGrid more often in AppExchange. We are forming partnerships and our partners also have their AppExchange offerings. EditGrid is now included in three AppExchange offerings, including our official integration, Central Desktop’s Customer Extranet and ShareMethods’s ShareOffice.

It’s pretty exciting.

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